Thirteen Bits of Trivia By Frances
1.) Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles per year.
2.) Most Americans’ car horns beep in the key of “F.”
3.) Murphy’s Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.
4 .) Babies are born without knee caps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
5.) Shakespeare’s son’s name was Hamnet.
6.) Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined
7.) Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
8.) The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.
9.) Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
10.) Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
11.) The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.
12.) Percentage of men who say they are happier after their divorce or separation: 58
13.) Percentage of women who say they are happier: 85
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January 24, 2008 at 4:02 am
melanie
I need to start banging my head against the wall more..LOL. Great list!
January 24, 2008 at 5:27 am
Nicholas
Strange! I could have sworn I heard a car honking in E# this morning!
January 24, 2008 at 6:00 am
driftjunky
WOW! I’ve learned more here than my last three classes ever offered me. They really did suck that much. I have to check out this Boston University Bridge. lol. Happy TT and have a great weekend.
January 24, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Laura
Great list! A whole lot of useless trivia…will have to send my husband here!
January 24, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Darla
Oh, #6 is just wrong. (not that I’m disbelieving you–I’m just a bit appalled.)
#9 is good to remember–wonder how much aggravation it would take to work off a brownie?
January 24, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Karina
What a great list. I didn’t know taht about the B.U. Bridge, and I worked in Boston for years and years…go figure. The last two made me laugh…not sure if they were meant to, but they did!
January 24, 2008 at 4:36 pm
melli
So glad to learn I’ve burned at LEAST 450 calories this week! YAY!
January 24, 2008 at 5:33 pm
Jeanine
Love this list. I just love those “useless facts”.
January 24, 2008 at 9:50 pm
tundratantrum
“D’you know that the human head weighs 8 poundths?” lol…these are fun. This week I have “You Know Your An Alaskan if…”
January 26, 2008 at 1:43 am
Janet
#7 - well, that’s a bit of bad news!
#8 - now I’m going to have to try to capture that!
February 28, 2008 at 7:14 am
Mar
Love these lists!!
Nr. 4 left me thinking…. I knew about nr 10
Happy TT