2007-02-16 03:19:58 · 6 answers · asked by Solitaire_940 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
There are four cars and eleven lightposts on the back of a $10 dollar bill.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
2007-02-16 03:31:07 · answer #1 · answered by Kumail 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The square root of 2 is 1.414
The speed of light is 186,281 miles per hour
A year is 365 days, 4 hours, 48 minutes and 46 seconds long
I have memorized pi to 3.141592653589793
Perogee is 232,00o miles. Apogee is 252,000 miles - that is the distance the moon is from the Earth in its elliptical orbit.
An au (astronomical unit) is the distance from the earth to the sun, 93,000,000 miles
Elvis died on my birthday
Madonna has the same birthday as me August 16th.
The worlds tallest free-standing structure is the CN tower at 1851 feet
The most polluted place in the world is Chernobyl
The planet earth is not a sphere, it is an oblate spheroid.
Roger Banister was the first man to break the 4 minute mile
Sir Edmund Hillary was the first man to scale Everset
The smartest person in the world is (highest IQ) Marilyn Vos Savant. She used to be marreid to Dr. Jarvic - the creator of the artificial heart. Not sure if she still is. Imagine the pressure the kids from that union would be under to succeed!
TFTP
2007-02-16 11:35:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The7UP inventor was an albino
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
2007-02-16 11:55:34 · answer #3 · answered by Father Ted 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first computer bug was, in fact, a bug. A moth to be specific.
Since tamed, controlled horses in a horse race, such as the Kentucky Derby, run from left to right when sitting in the main grandstands, Ford decided to make the original horse logo on the Mustang automobile appear to be "wild" or "untamed" by having it go from right to left.
2007-02-16 11:28:34 · answer #4 · answered by quntmphys238 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the strawberry is one of the few fruits with its seed on the outside,the pineapple is one of the few fruits that are a seed in itself,humans are if not the only ones then one of the few animals in the animal kingdom that mate face to face,kayak is one of the few words spelled frontwards is the same spelled backwards,humans are the only animals that cant fly but can fly,ok brain freeze hope you like.try this on some friends"if eggs are 12 cents a dozen,how much would 100 eggs cost you. ($1.00)
2007-02-16 12:28:43 · answer #5 · answered by kdog30906 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
um..the giraffe actually has 7 neck bones like all mammals do?
2007-02-16 11:40:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋