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21-Do You Know (Trivia)

Trivia in Roman mythology was the goddess who haunted crossroads, graveyards and was the goddess of sorcery and witchcraft. She wandered about at night, and was seen only by the barking of dogs who told of her approach.

If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on the right side of your mouth. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on the left side of your mouth.

To make half a kilo of honey, bees must collect nectar from over 2 million individual flowers.

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. In the Renaissance era, it was fashionable to shave them off!

It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!

Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent.

Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by 'Bayer'.

Airports at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.

Do you know the names of Gandhi Ji's three wise monkeys? They are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil) and Mazaru (Speak no evil).

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go. The first sense lost is sight.

For every extra kilogram carried on a space flight, 530 kg of excess fuel are needed at lift-off

Animals
Ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain

Companies
The Shell Oil Company originally began as a novelty shop in London that sold seashells.

Warner Communications paid $28 million for the copyright to the song Happy Birthday.

Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy.

Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.

When it originally appeared in 1886 - Coca Cola was billed as an Esteemed Brain Tonic and Intellectual Beverage.

Communications giant Nokia, was founded in 1865 as a wood-pulp mill by Fredrik Idestam.

Countries
The University of Alaska spans four time zones.

In ancient Greece , tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant she accepted.

Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!

Food
Peanut oil is used for cooking in submarines because it doesn't smoke unless it's heated above 450 deg F.

Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams.

The banana cannot reproduce itself. It has be propagated only manually.

The heat of peppers is rated on the Scoville scale, as the intensity of earthquakes are rated at Richter's scale.

Geography
Because of the speed at which Earth moves around the Sun, it is impossible for a solar eclipse to last more than 7 minutes and 58 seconds.

The Moon moves about two inches away from the Earth each year.

Due to Earth's gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 meters.

A comet's tail always points away from the Sun.

Everything weighs one percent less at the equator.

Science
Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.

Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals.

Gold is the only metal that doesn't rust, even if it's buried in the ground for thousands of years.

Astronauts can't belch - there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.

The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements.

If you get into the bottom of a well or a tall chimney and look up, you can see stars, even in the middle of the day.

 

 

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