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Trivia of the Day |
| A duck's quack doesn't echo,
and no one knows why. |
| In the 1940s, the FCC assigned
television's Channel 1 to mobile Services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for
instance) but did not renumber the other channel assignments.
That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel
1. |
| The San Francisco Cable cars
are the only mobile National Monuments. |
| The only 15 letter word that
can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable. |
| Hang On Snoopy is the official
rock song of Ohio. |
| Did you know that there are
coffee flavored PEZ? |
| The reason firehouses have
circular stairways is from the days of old when the engines were
pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and
figured out how to walk up straight staircases. |
| The airplane Buddy Holly died
in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don
McLean song.) |
| When opossums are playing
'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out
from sheer terror. |
| The Main Library at
Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was
built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the
books that would occupy the building. |
| Each king in a deck of playing
cards represents a great king from history.
Spades - King David
Clubs - Alexander the Great
Hearts - Charlemagne
Diamonds - Julius Caesar. |
| 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 =
12,345,678,987,654,321 |
| If a statue in the park of a
person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in
battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died
as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four
legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes. |
| Clans of long ago that wanted
to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to
burn their houses down -- hence the expression "to get
fired." |
| Only two people signed the
Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles
Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature
wasn't added until 5 years later. |
| "I am." is the
shortest complete sentence in the English language. (I think it
would be, "No." ) |
| The term "the whole 9
yards" came from W.W.II fighter pilots in the Pacific.
When arming their airplanes on the ground,
the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet,
before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their
ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards." |
| Hershey's Kisses are called
that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the
conveyor belt. |
| The phrase "rule of
thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you
couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb. |
| An ostrich's eye is bigger that
it's brain. |
| The longest recorded flight of
a chicken is thirteen seconds. |
| The Eisenhower interstate
system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These
straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other
emergencies. |
| David Prowse was the guy
in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines,
and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl
Jones until he saw the screening of the movie. |
| The name Jeep came from the
abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose"
vehicle, G.P. |
| The Pentagon, in Arlington,
Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was
built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws
requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites. |
| The cruise liner, Queen
Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that
it burns. |
| Cat's urine glows under a
blacklight. |
| The highest point in
Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado. |
| Nutmeg is extremely poisonous
if injected intravenously. (Okay, all you mystery writers, start
typing...) |
| If you have three quarters,
four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the
largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change
for a dollar. |
| No NFL team which plays its
home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl. (Maybe
that's the Saints' problem) |
| The first toilet ever seen on
television was on "Leave It To Beaver." |
| The only two days of the year
in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or
NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-star
Game. |
| Only one person in two
billion will live to be 116 or older. |
| The name Wendy was made up for
the book "Peter Pan." |
| In Cleveland, Ohio, it's
illegal to catch mice without a hunting license. |
| It takes 3,000 cows to supply
the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs. |
| Thirty-five percent of the
people who use personal ads for dating are already married. |
| There are an average of 178
sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun. |
| The world's termites outweigh
the world's humans 10 to 1. |
| Pound for pound, hamburgers
cost more than new cars. |
| The 3 most valuable brand names
on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order. |
| When Heinz ketchup leaves the
bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year. |
