Ten trivia facts of the day?

Question

1. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.

2. Every person has a unique tongue print.

3. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

4. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

5. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small sized dog.

6. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

7. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

8. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.

9. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. It's the same with apples.

10. Back in the mid to late 80's, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator

Answer 1

No one asked you so why are you offering this information on a question format? More importantly, most of your data is absolutely incorrect, or badly misprinted or translated. Stick to what you know and not some crap your hear from here or there.

Negative calories: HOW ABSURD!

Answer 2

Fun list -- but not entirely accurate:

* it does not take more calories to chew a stalk of celery (or an apple, or anything else) than the calories that food has. (although, some foods, like celery, have so much cellulose or other indigestable fiber, that it can take more energy to *digest* that food than you can actually absorb from it.)

* a duck's quack does, in fact, echo, like any other sound.

* During WWII the Oscars were made of plaster (not wood...not metal...not porcelain).

* As to the debate going on amongst the other answerers about chocolate and dogs: chocollate contains theobromine, which is toxic to dogs, but whether the chocolate's going to kill your dog, make him sick, or, if you're lucky, do nothing at all will of course depend on things like how much chocolate the dog ate, how senstive to theobromine the particular dog is, what kind of chocolate (because different kinds contains different levels of theobromine), and how much your dog weighs. Milk chocolate -- the things that those Hershey's kisses are made of -- contains the least amount of theobromine. Dark chocolate contains less, and baker's chocolate contains the most of those three. If your dog downed a lot of chocolate and nothing happened, consider your dog, and yourself, lucky.

Answer 3

Number 9. The Kilocalorie, or calorie as we know it is a measure of energy. There are many different ways of calculating the amount of energy the human body acquires from different food types. You get energy from proteins, carbohydrates, fats, etc. One apple contains approximately 50 calories and a stick of celery around 10-15. For the apple, that's enough energy to fuel your body at idle for quite a while. You'd probably burn that up within about 15 minutes of a cardio workout. So unless you're eating while running, there's no way it would even come close taking more energy to eat something than it would provide your body. Even then, it's not likely.

Answer 4

My standard minutiae is often the different contenders for roles- you often get some weird and wonderful ones too. OJ Simpson became initially lined as much as play The Terminator in the past Arnold Schwarzenegger! marvelous! i've got not got a itemizing of dazzling actors or actresses. What I do have is a determination of actors who I enjoyed in a definite function - Morgan Freeman interior the Shawshank Redemption, Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain, Uma Thurman In Kill invoice (one million and 2), Tom Hulce and F. Murray Abraham in Amadeus, Marlon Brando interior the Godfather, Robert De Niro in Taxi driving force. The checklist is going on. Daniel Day-Lewis overall performance in there will be Blood is likewise in my 'All-Time Favourites' checklist. What a great turn. thoroughly deserved Oscar! possibly my all-time ever overall performance by everyone in a action picture. A masterclass!

Answer 5

Number 7 - Oscars during WW2 were made of porcelain and replaced with the real thing after the war.

Answer 6

Not sure about the other facts but number one is wrong. A duck's quack does echo, proven on mythbusters.

Answer 7

Interesting!

Answer 8

Will go along with everything except number 5. Several years ago, my little rat terrier and I ate a pound of Hershey's kisses ("silver bells") between us one night...with her eating about as many as I did....and she's still doing fine.

Answer 9

number one about the ducks quack is not true I duck hunt and you can here them echo down in a valley

Answer 10

11. One can of Red Bull has enough caffeine to terminate an early pregnancy.