Trivia for Squiggle #XLVII
Here is this week's installment of Trivia for Squiggle...here's to hoping life, the universe, and everything slows down a bit so I can get this trivia thing back on the twice weekly track. Be sure to check out The Visual Smorgasbord as a few things have been going on over there...
1151. A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer.
1152. If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
1153. Mr. Snuffleupagas' first name was Alyoisus.
1154. According to surveys, on average people fear spiders more than they fear death.
1155. The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It to Beaver".
1156. The average ear of corn has eight hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.
1157. The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
1158. Only 1/3 of the people that can twitch their ears can twitch only one at a time.
1159. The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey" came from when they had old cannons like ones used in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they would crack and break off... Thus the saying.
1160. Chrysler built B-29's engines that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant call Diamond Star.
1161. On the new hundred-dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.
1162. TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
1163. Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.
1164. A snail can sleep for 3 years.
1165. The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
1166. More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
1167. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
1168. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.
1169. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
1170. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
1171. Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
1172. Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
1173. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
1174. One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year.
1175. Caesar salad has nothing to do with any of the Caesar. It was first concocted in a bar in Tijuana, Mexico, in the 1920's.
"I pay the doctor bill, baby
So I'll break what I want"
GWAR, "Slap U Around"
1151. A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer.
1152. If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
1153. Mr. Snuffleupagas' first name was Alyoisus.
1154. According to surveys, on average people fear spiders more than they fear death.
1155. The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It to Beaver".
1156. The average ear of corn has eight hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.
1157. The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
1158. Only 1/3 of the people that can twitch their ears can twitch only one at a time.
1159. The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey" came from when they had old cannons like ones used in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they would crack and break off... Thus the saying.
1160. Chrysler built B-29's engines that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant call Diamond Star.
1161. On the new hundred-dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.
1162. TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
1163. Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.
1164. A snail can sleep for 3 years.
1165. The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
1166. More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
1167. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
1168. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.
1169. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
1170. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
1171. Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
1172. Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
1173. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
1174. One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year.
1175. Caesar salad has nothing to do with any of the Caesar. It was first concocted in a bar in Tijuana, Mexico, in the 1920's.
"I pay the doctor bill, baby
So I'll break what I want"
GWAR, "Slap U Around"
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