Thursday, January 20, 2005
Here's a few little bits of trivia for you to ponder:
* Smokey the Bear has his own zip code. It's 20252.
* The underside of a horse's hoof is called a "frog."
* The two most commonly sold items in grocery stores are breakfast cereals and soda.
* The average resident of Nevada gambles $846 each year in casinos.
* In an early draft of "Star Wars," the character of Luke Skywalker was called Luke Starkiller.
* Of the 17,000 poems Emily Dickenson wrote, only seven were published during her lifetime.
* Stalin loved Tarzan movies.
* Twenty percent of all publications sold in Japan are comic books.
* The world's record for keeping a Lifesaver in the mouth with the hole intact is seven hours and 10 minutes.
* More redheads are born in Scotland than other part of the world.
* "Shambles" used to mean "slaughterhouse."
* The average iceberg weighs 20 million tons.
* Bill Gates gets four million e-mails each day, but only about 10 make it to his in-box because of his anti-spam software.
* The white part of your fingernail is called the "lunia."
* Eighty percent of migraine sufferers are female.
Grab more dopey, useless trivia here.
* Smokey the Bear has his own zip code. It's 20252.
* The underside of a horse's hoof is called a "frog."
* The two most commonly sold items in grocery stores are breakfast cereals and soda.
* The average resident of Nevada gambles $846 each year in casinos.
* In an early draft of "Star Wars," the character of Luke Skywalker was called Luke Starkiller.
* Of the 17,000 poems Emily Dickenson wrote, only seven were published during her lifetime.
* Stalin loved Tarzan movies.
* Twenty percent of all publications sold in Japan are comic books.
* The world's record for keeping a Lifesaver in the mouth with the hole intact is seven hours and 10 minutes.
* More redheads are born in Scotland than other part of the world.
* "Shambles" used to mean "slaughterhouse."
* The average iceberg weighs 20 million tons.
* Bill Gates gets four million e-mails each day, but only about 10 make it to his in-box because of his anti-spam software.
* The white part of your fingernail is called the "lunia."
* Eighty percent of migraine sufferers are female.
Grab more dopey, useless trivia here.
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