Useless (but interesting) trivia

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Why not? Never too old to learn.

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The average worker bee makes 1/12 of a Tsp of honey in its lifetime.
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Neptune has orbited the sun only once since being discovered in 1846.
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David Bowie was born the same year as the Roswell crash….........
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The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life".

 

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If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19, the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
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Mike Nesmith's (the guitarist of The Monkeys) mom invented White Out.
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Mozart wrote the nursery rhyme 'twinkle, twinkle, little star' at the age of 5.
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Paul Revere was a dentist.

 

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In Alaska, it is illegal to push a live moose out of a moving aeroplane

The Okapi is the only known relative of the Giraffe

Walt Disney World in Florida is larger, by area, than five countries(Vatican City, Monaco, Nauru, Tuvalu and San Marino)

Italy's flag was designed by Napoleon Bonaparte

There is a city called Rome in every continent (except Antarctica)

Porsche were originally going to call the 911 the 901. However, Peugeot turned around and said that they had ownership of any three-digit car name with a '0' in the middle. Porsche then changed it to 911, and the rest is history.....

 

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Here’s the trick to alligator (or crocodile) wrestling.

1. Most of their jaw muscles are focused on closing and bite pressure. The muscles to open the mouth are so weak a human can hold a gator’s mouth closed with one hand.
2. Their neurosystem is so primitive, rubbing the underbelly from base of the tail to the neck will render a gator unconscious. Rubbing from neck to tail will revive it.

So, if you ever find yourself cornered by a gator, hold its mouth shut, roll it over, and stroke its belly from tail to neck and go on about your business.

 

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Bubble wrap was originally intended to be used as 3D wallpaper.
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The abbreviation for ‘down’ (dn) is just 'up’ upside down.
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The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" movie was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.

 

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If a number is divisible by 9, the sum of all its digits is also divisible by 9. Try it.

9, 18, 27, 81, 108, 927, etc.

 

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Okay, that's just messed up

 

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Note to self....always scramble the penguin eggs. With cheese.

 

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Know the difference between a German Shepherd and an Alsatian? There isn’t one. They’re the same.

During one of the world wars (maybe both) German Shepherd Dogs were “rebranded” as Alsations, referring to the Alsace-Lorraine region of France that borders Germany. A lot of the dogs were bred in that region. British military used the dogs for tactical and patrol missions, as did the Germans. The British didn’t want to acknowledge a dog with “German” in the title. That sentiment carried over into US dog ownership for a while.

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