What interesting trivia do you know?

Question

Did you know that the only rainforest in North America is not located in Hawaii but in Washington State?

If someone tells you, you can never consume too much vitamins, they are wrong. Too much Vitamin A can be toxic because it's fat soluable. That's why Escamo's cannot enjoy polar bear liver.

Eating too much beta-carotene (contained in carrots) can turn a baby orange!

The male Lyrebird, for his mating call, mimics sounds. This includes mating songs from other birds, to chainsaws, car engines and car alarms, fire alarms, rifle-shots, camera shutters, dogs barking and crying babies!

Answer 1

1. Many believe that abolishing prayer in school falls under seperation of Church and State. In fact this case has been won more than once on the basis praying falls closer to Freedom of Religion than it does to "Church Doctrine". There is no such thing as Seperation of Religion and State.

2. There are no beans in beanie babies but there was, at one time, beans in bean bags.

3. Letting the Cat Out of the Bag originated from dishonest livestock salesmen replacing chickens or other animals with cats. When the farmer would get home, the cat would be out of the bag.

4. Einstein had one outfit only. He did this so he did not have to waste brain power which he thought of as limited on choosing what to wear.

5. Dr. Gregory House, fictional character, is based on Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective, Sherlock Holmes.

6. In Miami it is against the law to immitate an animal. Umm...Ok I won't that one's too easy...

7. Checkers (or draught) was introduced into Europe from Egypt someotime in the 16th century.

8. Some (including Gary Gygax but he admits he made it up) credit Loki with being a god of fire as well as mischief. This mix up might come from some versions of the contest of the gods stories in which Loki could not out eat fire who was. This challenge was given by Utgard Loki, king of the giants (not to be confused with Loki himself).

9. It is icy cold in Greenland and rather greenish in Iceland.

10. Edgar Allen Poe died in Boston, MA but the cause of his death is still unknown with much speculation.

And so many more nuggets of useless information that its no wonder the idea of trying to learn a particular thing scares me :)

Answer 2

Coca Cola was originally green.. is actually a false statement. At no point was Coca Cola green, but was bottled in green bottles. Brown also hides impurities, something that the backroom scientist knew very well.
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better. However, I can read smaller print than my hubby. And from farther away. He doesn't wear glasses. Neither do I. The only food that does not spoil is honey.
Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.
Men get hiccups more often than woman.
Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation. I wonder if they also have the highest rate of people suffering from MS.
There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of the year. Weird, no??
And... Asians smoke more than the Americans, yet they have less occurrences of lung cancer, because they consume a large amount of seaweed, a very strong alkalizing food.

Answer 3

Horse trivia

Mr Ed's real name was Bamboo Harvester
The Black Stallion was played by Cass Ole
Alexander the Great rode Bucephalus
El Cid rode Babieca
Don Quixote rode Rocinante
Robert E Lee rode Traveller
Black Jack was the riderless horse in JFKs funeral

Answer 4

I don't know for sure if they used to do this with grapes but I know they did it with orange trees. In between the trees, the farmer would have these basins. When the farmer would hear about a frost coming, he would pour oil/gas into the basins and ignite it. The basins were like little chimneys--they let out warm smoke to keep the frost from freezing the oranges and rotting them. Sometimes, this would go on for days depending on the inclement weather. If the farmer ran out of fuel, he was out of luck if the frost kept up. The groves would be full of smoke from the burning fuel.

Answer 5

Wisconsin was the first state that developed the highway numbering system.

Answer 6

I know that Hawaii is not in North America.

Answer 7

Lassie was always played by a male dog

Answer 8

Marriage is the number one cause of divorce

Answer 9

Q. What African animal kills the most people? A. The hippopotamus.

Answer 10

snake antivenom is made from horses blood kind of gross but interesting at the same time