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Trivia Quotes

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Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ room during a dance.

When opossums are playing “possum”, they are not “playing” . . . They actually pass out from sheer terror.

What is the most consumed fruit in the United States? (snaeb eeffoc)

What is a group of “…” called? A group of frogs is called an army. A group of rhinos is called a crash. A group of kangaroos is called a mob. A group of whales is called a pod. A group of ravens is called a murder. A group of officers is called a mess. A group of larks is called an exaltation. A group of owls is called a parliament.

Two-thirds of the worlds eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

There are only four words in the English language that end in “dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

The verb “cleave” is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.

The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.

The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to account for the weight of the books.

The longest one syllable word in the English language is “screeched”.

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

The combination “ough” can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: “A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.”

The characters Bert and Ernie on Seasame Street were named after Bert the cop Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra’s “It’s A Wonderful Life”.

The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

The “save” icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.

Rubber bands last longer when refridgerated.

Pinocchio is Italian for “pine head”.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

Only 17% of Arizona can be bought and sold.

On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the “1” encased in the “shield” and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.

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