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Fruit and Vegetable Trivia
- Asparagus and Rhubarb are the only two that can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted every year.
- Strawberries is the only fruit that has its seeds on the outside.
- Lettuce is the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, cooked, or in any other form but fresh.
- Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
- Though hazardous if smoked, tobacco leaves contain a number of nutritional substances that can sustain life for a time if no other food is available.
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Food and Beverage Trivia
- The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.
- The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
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Sports Trivia
- In 1887 Aboriginal sprinter Bobby McDonald was the first athlete to use the crouch start method.
- Karate, generally considered a Japanese martial art, did not come to Japan until 1916. Prior to this time it was practiced solely by the Okinawa islanders, who had developed it centuries earlier as a means of weaponless defense against the Japanese.
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Animal Trivia
- Cats purr at 26 cycles per second, the same as an idling diesel engine.
- All porcupines float in water.
- The albatross drinks sea water. It has a special desalinization apparatus that strains out and excretes all excess salt.
- The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
- It is physically impossible for a pig to look up.
- The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
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Insects and Bugs
- Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
- A dragonfly can fly backwards just as fast as it can forwards.
Nature
- Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
- A dragonfly flaps its wings 20 to 40 times a second, bees and houseflies 200 times, some mosquitoes 600 times, and a tiny gnat 1,000 times.
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People and the Human Body
- Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second.
- The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.
- More people study English in China than speak it in the United States of America (300 million).
Countries
- Since 1934 the US has $4,085 a year for their lease of Guantanamo Bay (between 1903 and 1934 it was $2,000). Since the Cuban Revolution, the government under Fidel Castro has cashed only one of the rent checks from the US government.
- There is no where in England that is more than 52 miles from the sea.
Stuff... without a category, yet.
- Back in 1976 there was 280 drive-in theatres in Australia. By 2006 there were only 17.
- 215 jeans can be made with one bale of cotton.
- In 1876, the first microphone was invented by Emile Berliner.
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CherylK wrote...
How about this one: Mark Twain was born on a day in 1885 when Halley's comet came into view. When he died in 1910, Halley's comet came into view again.
I love trivia - this is a great lens.
Posted February 10, 2008
riff999 wrote...
Enjoyed the trivia! Maybe I'll try an apple every morning instead of the 5 cups of coffee I currently need to get going. I'll be awiting your next update. 5 stars.
Elvis Presley Trivia
Posted June 25, 2007
owl wrote...
Did you know that the original working title of the TV soap The Young and the Restless was ?The Innocent Years'.
Love your trivia lens.
owl
Posted May 08, 2007
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