SUNDAY TRIVIA

Did you know...

On average women say 7,000 words per day. Men manage just over 2000.

A penguin swims at a speed of approximately 15 miles per hour.

Approximately 850 peanuts make a 18 oz jar of peanut butter.

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

The Museum of Modern Art in New York City hung Matisse's ‘Le Bateau’ upside-down for 47 days before an art student noticed the error.

Three-hundred-million cells die in the human body every minute.

Women's hearts beat faster than men's.

Uranus is the only planet that rotates on its side.

There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.

Most men have erections every hour to hour and a half during sleep.

A 1.5 oz. milk chocolate bar has only 220 calories.
A 1.75 oz. serving of potato chips has 230 calories.

Frederic-August Bartholdi sculpted The Statue of Liberty.

Sea water is approximately 3.5 percent salt.

Ancient Chinese artists would never paint pictures of women’s feet.

A honey bee must tap two million flowers to make one pound of honey.

The largest stained-glass window in the world is at Kennedy International Airport in New York City. It can be seen on the American Airlines terminal building and measures 300 feet long by 23 feet high.

Aunt Jemima pancake flour, invented in 1889, was the first ready-mix food to be sold commercially.

An arabica coffee tree can produce up to 12 pounds of coffee a year, depending on soil and climate.

3 medium size bananas weigh approximately 1 pound.

Chocolate was introduced into the United States in 1765 when cocoa beans were brought from the West Indies to Dorchester, Massachusetts.

Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.

A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.

Since Hindus don't eat beef, the McDonald's in New Delhi makes its burgers with mutton.

The difference between apple juice and apple cider is that apple juice is the juice of the fruit only, and apple cider is the whole apple-skins, seeds, and all- which gives it the fuller body and deeper color. The juice is pasteurized and the cider is not.

In 1995, KFC sold 11 pieces of chicken for every man, woman and child in the US.

In Hershey, Pennsylvania, the streetlights along "Chocolate Avenue" are in the shape of Hershey Kisses.

The average person will consume 10,000 chocolate bars in a lifetime.

Beethoven who was a coffee lover, was so particular about his coffee that he always counted 60 beans each cup when he prepared his brew.