SUNDAY TRIVIA

A pineapple is a berry.

Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.

"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is commonly believed to be the only English sentence devised to include all the letters of the alphabet. However, type setters have another such sentence: "Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs."

A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.

A tequini is a martini made with tequila instead of dry gin.

Most of the earth's surface water is permanently frozen or salty.

What causes a red sun? The red or orange color of the rising or setting sun is caused by the increased distance through our atmosphere its rays must pass before reaching our eyes. Our thick impurity-laden lower atmosphere only allows the red tones to pass through it. As the sun rises higher in the sky, its light passes through a shorter distance of thick atmosphere. It loses its redder tone and takes on its characteristic yellow color.

Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.

Espresso has 1/3 of the caffeine of a regular cup of coffee.

French was the official language of England for over 600 years.

Unatractiphobia is a fear of ugly people.

One plain milk chocolate candy bar has more protein than a banana. 

"Weird" Al Yankovic received a Bachelor's degree in Architecture in 1981.  He also served as valedictorian of his high school at age 16.

There are approximately ten million bricks in the Empire State Building.

The oldest business in the United States of America is the cymbal company Zildjian which was founded in Constantinople in 1623.

A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.