Trivia for Squiggle #55
Here is your weekly dosage of random crap. #1375 is just a damn shame...
1351. The Pentagon in Washington, D. C. has five sides, five stories, and five acres in the middle.
1352. Point Roberts in Washington State is cut off from the rest of the state by British Columbia, Canada. If you wish to travel from Point Roberts to the rest of the state or vice versa, you must pass through Canada, including both Canadian and U.S. customs.
1353. There is an ATM at McMurdo Station in Antarctica, which has a winter population of 200.
1354. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
1355. Newborn babies are given to the wrong mother in the hospital 12 times a day worldwide.
1356. The Starbucks at the highest elevation is on Main Street in Breckenridge, Colorado.
1357. Each year, over 1,000,000 people fail to itemize out the mortgage interest deduction on their income taxes. Last year, this amounted to $473,000,000 in taxes.
1358. In 1998, more fast-food employees were murdered on the job than police officers.
1359. The lead singer of The Knack, famous for "My Sharona," and Jack Kevorkian's lead defense attorney are brothers, Doug & Jeffrey Feiger.
1360. Two very popular and common objects have the same function, but one has thousands of moving parts, while the other has absolutely no moving parts - an hourglass and a sundial.
1361. One out of three employees who received a promotion use a coffee mug with the company logo on it.
1362. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
1363. The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows.
1364. 1 pound of lemons contain more sugar than 1 pound of strawberries.
1365. The "you are here" arrow on maps is called an ideo locator.
1366. 60% of all US potato products originate in Idaho.
1367. 61,000 people are airborne over the US at any given time.
1368. A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.
1369. Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Halley's Comet came into view. When he died in 1910, Halley's Comet was in view again.
1370. The Weddell seal can travel underwater for seven miles without surfacing for air.
1371. The longest words in the English language with only one syllable are the nine-letter "screeched" and "strengths".
1372. Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye".
1373. All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" read 4:20.
1374. A baby is born without kneecaps. They appear between age 2 and 6.
1375. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
[to attacking werewolf]
Spoon: I hope I give you the shits, you fucking wimp.
The previous post's quote was from the "Star Wars" movies
Chewbacca = Peter Mayhew
1351. The Pentagon in Washington, D. C. has five sides, five stories, and five acres in the middle.
1352. Point Roberts in Washington State is cut off from the rest of the state by British Columbia, Canada. If you wish to travel from Point Roberts to the rest of the state or vice versa, you must pass through Canada, including both Canadian and U.S. customs.
1353. There is an ATM at McMurdo Station in Antarctica, which has a winter population of 200.
1354. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
1355. Newborn babies are given to the wrong mother in the hospital 12 times a day worldwide.
1356. The Starbucks at the highest elevation is on Main Street in Breckenridge, Colorado.
1357. Each year, over 1,000,000 people fail to itemize out the mortgage interest deduction on their income taxes. Last year, this amounted to $473,000,000 in taxes.
1358. In 1998, more fast-food employees were murdered on the job than police officers.
1359. The lead singer of The Knack, famous for "My Sharona," and Jack Kevorkian's lead defense attorney are brothers, Doug & Jeffrey Feiger.
1360. Two very popular and common objects have the same function, but one has thousands of moving parts, while the other has absolutely no moving parts - an hourglass and a sundial.
1361. One out of three employees who received a promotion use a coffee mug with the company logo on it.
1362. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
1363. The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows.
1364. 1 pound of lemons contain more sugar than 1 pound of strawberries.
1365. The "you are here" arrow on maps is called an ideo locator.
1366. 60% of all US potato products originate in Idaho.
1367. 61,000 people are airborne over the US at any given time.
1368. A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.
1369. Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Halley's Comet came into view. When he died in 1910, Halley's Comet was in view again.
1370. The Weddell seal can travel underwater for seven miles without surfacing for air.
1371. The longest words in the English language with only one syllable are the nine-letter "screeched" and "strengths".
1372. Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye".
1373. All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" read 4:20.
1374. A baby is born without kneecaps. They appear between age 2 and 6.
1375. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
[to attacking werewolf]
Spoon: I hope I give you the shits, you fucking wimp.
The previous post's quote was from the "Star Wars" movies
Chewbacca = Peter Mayhew
posted by Scott at 1:53 PM
1 Comments:
That's a good point about the hourglass and the sundial. I like that!
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