Sunday, April 24, 2011

SUNDAY TRIVIA

DID YOU KNOW........

Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.

More money is printed daily for the Monopoly game than by the U.S. Treasury.

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.

The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is 'Live Free or Die'. These license plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.

The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California.

No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times. 
(Go find some paper, you know you want to try!)

If you can see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun. If you don't, you can't see it.

The bat on the Bacardi symbol is there because the soil where the sugar cane grows is fertile from the excessive guano (bat droppings.)

Coffee is generally roasted between 400F and 425F. The longer it is roasted, the darker the roast. Roasting time is usually from ten to twenty minutes.


US consumers eat 2.8 billion pounds of chocolate annually, representing nearly half of the world's supply. 

The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used.

A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court!

After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!

There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses.

The elephant is one of the few mammals that can't jump!

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!

Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, or month!

1 comment:

  1. I can't jump either!!! And thank god I'm a tequila and red wine drinker!!!

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