Trivia for Squiggle #XXXVII
Many apologies once again for my tardiness in posting last week's trivia. You will find installment #XXXVI just below this one. Today's issue of Trivia for Squiggle completes our look into geogrpahy and space that began a few issues ago...we're quickly approaching the 1,000 mark!
901. The world's worst earthquake occurred in the Eastern Mediterranean in July 1201, killing over one million people that were predominately in Egypt and Syria.
902. There are 500,000 detectable earthquakes in the world each year.
903. There are over 2,000 different species of cactuses.
904. There are over one hundred billion galaxies with each galaxy having billions of stars.
905. There are over three trillion craters on the moon, with some being having a diameter over three feet.
906. There have been 191 coups in Bolivia since it became a sovereign country in 1825.
907. There is a "cemetery town" in California named Colma, which is located five miles south of San Francisco. Concerns about the public health, crime, and the need for space forced the city of San Francisco to outlaw burials in 1902, hence the establishment of Colma, where the ratio of dead to living people is 750 to 1.
908. There is a town in California called Tarzana. It was named after Tarzan's creator, Edgar Rice Burroughs.
909. There was once a country called Prussia, but after World War II it was divided among Poland, Germany, and the USSR.
910. Thirty to forty gallons of sugar maple sap must be boiled down to make just one gallon of maple syrup.
911. Toronto was the first city in the world with a computerized traffic signal system.
912. Trees that are near street lights do not shed their leaves as fast as a tree that is in the country.
913. Tropical rainforests cover about 7% of the Earth and receive over 80 inches of rain every year.
914. Twelve men have landed on and explored the moon.
915. Two-thirds of Canadians live in Quebec and Ontario.
916. Uranus has 27 moons.
917. When explorers first arrived in Venezuela, they were reminded of Venice. They named the country "Little Venice", which translated into Spanish is Venezuela.
918. When the volcano Krakatoa off the Java islands exploded in 1883, it was so loud that it woke some people up in South Australia.
919. Hell is located not only in Michigan but a small town with the same moniker is also located in the Cayman Islands. They even have a post office.
920. New York’s Central Park has 125 drinking fountains.
921. Every year, an igloo hotel is built in Sweden that has the capacity to sleep 100 people.
922. From 1939 to 1942, there was a undersea post office in the Bahamas.
923. Hawaii's Mount Waialeale is the wettest place in the world - it rains throughout the year and about 460 inches per annum.
924. Ho-Ho-Kus, a small town in New Jersey, is the only town in the United States of America that has two dashes in its name.
925. In 1785, the city of Paris removed bones from cemeteries to ease the overflow of dead people. They took these bones and stacked them in tunnels now known as the Catacombs. You can visit these tunnel attractions and work your way along long corridors, which are stacked with skulls and bones.
"Thirty-seven?!? In a row?"
901. The world's worst earthquake occurred in the Eastern Mediterranean in July 1201, killing over one million people that were predominately in Egypt and Syria.
902. There are 500,000 detectable earthquakes in the world each year.
903. There are over 2,000 different species of cactuses.
904. There are over one hundred billion galaxies with each galaxy having billions of stars.
905. There are over three trillion craters on the moon, with some being having a diameter over three feet.
906. There have been 191 coups in Bolivia since it became a sovereign country in 1825.
907. There is a "cemetery town" in California named Colma, which is located five miles south of San Francisco. Concerns about the public health, crime, and the need for space forced the city of San Francisco to outlaw burials in 1902, hence the establishment of Colma, where the ratio of dead to living people is 750 to 1.
908. There is a town in California called Tarzana. It was named after Tarzan's creator, Edgar Rice Burroughs.
909. There was once a country called Prussia, but after World War II it was divided among Poland, Germany, and the USSR.
910. Thirty to forty gallons of sugar maple sap must be boiled down to make just one gallon of maple syrup.
911. Toronto was the first city in the world with a computerized traffic signal system.
912. Trees that are near street lights do not shed their leaves as fast as a tree that is in the country.
913. Tropical rainforests cover about 7% of the Earth and receive over 80 inches of rain every year.
914. Twelve men have landed on and explored the moon.
915. Two-thirds of Canadians live in Quebec and Ontario.
916. Uranus has 27 moons.
917. When explorers first arrived in Venezuela, they were reminded of Venice. They named the country "Little Venice", which translated into Spanish is Venezuela.
918. When the volcano Krakatoa off the Java islands exploded in 1883, it was so loud that it woke some people up in South Australia.
919. Hell is located not only in Michigan but a small town with the same moniker is also located in the Cayman Islands. They even have a post office.
920. New York’s Central Park has 125 drinking fountains.
921. Every year, an igloo hotel is built in Sweden that has the capacity to sleep 100 people.
922. From 1939 to 1942, there was a undersea post office in the Bahamas.
923. Hawaii's Mount Waialeale is the wettest place in the world - it rains throughout the year and about 460 inches per annum.
924. Ho-Ho-Kus, a small town in New Jersey, is the only town in the United States of America that has two dashes in its name.
925. In 1785, the city of Paris removed bones from cemeteries to ease the overflow of dead people. They took these bones and stacked them in tunnels now known as the Catacombs. You can visit these tunnel attractions and work your way along long corridors, which are stacked with skulls and bones.
"Thirty-seven?!? In a row?"
posted by Scott at 2:24 PM
1 Comments:
In regards to the quote: upon further thought I remember Dante saying "My girlfriend sucked 37 dicks" (of which he was one of those 37)...then someone else said "In a row?"...What's kinda funny is that whenever I see the number 37 anywhere I always go "Thirty-seven? In a row?"...so the quote was sort of how it plays out in my head based upon the film's dialogue and not a direct quote...on a related note: there's even some ViewAskew apparel like hockey jerseys or something that have 37 on them.
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