Trivia for Squiggle #17
This week's issue of Trivia for Squiggle contains useless bits of information about household brands/products type stuff...and other consumer-related...stuff...it's basically a general crap day...=)
401. Doctors in Canada use an adhesive similar to Krazy Glue instead of stitches, lowering the possibility of bacterial infection and minimizing scarring.
402. France is known as the perfume capital of the world.
403. 93% of all greeting cards are purchased by women.
404. 98% of houses in the United States have at least one television set.
405. A common name for pincurls is also spitcurls because woman sometimes wet their hair with their saliva before curling it.
406. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
407. A washroom that was built by Lam Sai-wing is the world's most expensive washroom. He built it for his shop and everything in the washroom is made out of gold and jewels. It cost $3.5 million to build.
408. About 26 per cent of all indoor water used by households in Sydney, Australia are for laundry.
409. About 85% or product warning labels on household products are inadequate.
410. Actress Jamie Lee Curtis invented a special diaper for babies that has a pocket.
411. America's favorite Crayola crayon color is blue.
412. Americans did not commonly use forks until after the Civil War.
413. Americans on average use about 580 pounds of paper per year per person.
414. An average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
415. An office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.
416. Ancient Egyptian women used to wear perfume cones made of wax that would melt in the heat letting out a nice fragrance.
417. Approximately 10.5 gallons of water is used in a dishwasher. Washing the dishes by hand can use up to 20 gallons of water.
418. Approximately 18 billion disposable diapers end up in landfills each year. These diapers can takes as long as 500 years to finally decompose.
419. Approximately 60% of the water used by households during the summer is used for watering flowers, and lawns.
420. Austria was the very first country to use postcards starting in 1869.
421. Babies who wear disposable diapers are five times more likely to develop diaper rash than those that wear cotton diapers.
422. Barbie's boyfriend Ken was not sold in India until recently because it clashed with the traditional arranged marriage.
423. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
424. BluBlocker sunglasses were developed with lenses that were used in the NASA space program for American astronauts.
425. By partially filling saucers with vinegar and distributing the saucers around a room, you can eliminate odors.
"Evil will always triumph because good is dumb."
401. Doctors in Canada use an adhesive similar to Krazy Glue instead of stitches, lowering the possibility of bacterial infection and minimizing scarring.
402. France is known as the perfume capital of the world.
403. 93% of all greeting cards are purchased by women.
404. 98% of houses in the United States have at least one television set.
405. A common name for pincurls is also spitcurls because woman sometimes wet their hair with their saliva before curling it.
406. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
407. A washroom that was built by Lam Sai-wing is the world's most expensive washroom. He built it for his shop and everything in the washroom is made out of gold and jewels. It cost $3.5 million to build.
408. About 26 per cent of all indoor water used by households in Sydney, Australia are for laundry.
409. About 85% or product warning labels on household products are inadequate.
410. Actress Jamie Lee Curtis invented a special diaper for babies that has a pocket.
411. America's favorite Crayola crayon color is blue.
412. Americans did not commonly use forks until after the Civil War.
413. Americans on average use about 580 pounds of paper per year per person.
414. An average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
415. An office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.
416. Ancient Egyptian women used to wear perfume cones made of wax that would melt in the heat letting out a nice fragrance.
417. Approximately 10.5 gallons of water is used in a dishwasher. Washing the dishes by hand can use up to 20 gallons of water.
418. Approximately 18 billion disposable diapers end up in landfills each year. These diapers can takes as long as 500 years to finally decompose.
419. Approximately 60% of the water used by households during the summer is used for watering flowers, and lawns.
420. Austria was the very first country to use postcards starting in 1869.
421. Babies who wear disposable diapers are five times more likely to develop diaper rash than those that wear cotton diapers.
422. Barbie's boyfriend Ken was not sold in India until recently because it clashed with the traditional arranged marriage.
423. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
424. BluBlocker sunglasses were developed with lenses that were used in the NASA space program for American astronauts.
425. By partially filling saucers with vinegar and distributing the saucers around a room, you can eliminate odors.
"Evil will always triumph because good is dumb."
posted by Scott at 9:32 AM
3 Comments:
Barbara Millicent Roberts. No wonder they just call her Barbie.
Hello Kitty's real name is Kitty White.
Is Roberts Ken last name? Arent they supposed to be married?
I forgot to say this: the Krazy glue thing isn't limited to doctors in Canada. They do that in America, too! That was the procedure for my appendectomy last Christmas.
yvette: I don't know about Ken's last name, but Barbie and Ken aren't together anymore. Mattel decided to make Barbie more modern and gave her a new Aussie boyfriend. (I can't remember his name, though.)
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