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This is a trivia thread. The trivia contained in it may or may not be accurate. Believe it at your own risk.
Studies indicate that listening to music is good for digestion.
Money isn’t made out of paper, it’s made out of cotton.
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes. This applies mostly to statues in USA.
The average person falls asleep in fourteen minutes.
There really was a Captain Morgan. He was a Welsh pirate who later became the lieutenant governor of Jamaica.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
A milliHelen is the quantity of beauty required to launch just one ship.
Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day. Some breeds of dogs can sleep up to 18 hours per day too, but on average they sleep 12-14 hours.
Dogs can see color but it is not as vivid a color scheme as we see. It is much like our vision at twilight.
Dog can hear sounds 250 yards away that most people cannot hear beyond 25 yards.
Sherlock Holmes never said “Elementary, my dear Watson”.
Only female mosquitoes will bite you.
If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The head’s picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
Reindeer like to eat bananas.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
A ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
A dog’s sense of smell is about 1000 times better than a person’s.
“Jay” used to be slang for “foolish person.” So when a pedestrian ignored street signs, he was referred to as a “jaywalker.”
Studies indicate that listening to music is good for digestion.
Money isn’t made out of paper, it’s made out of cotton.
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes. This applies mostly to statues in USA.
The average person falls asleep in fourteen minutes.
There really was a Captain Morgan. He was a Welsh pirate who later became the lieutenant governor of Jamaica.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
A milliHelen is the quantity of beauty required to launch just one ship.
Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day. Some breeds of dogs can sleep up to 18 hours per day too, but on average they sleep 12-14 hours.
Dogs can see color but it is not as vivid a color scheme as we see. It is much like our vision at twilight.
Dog can hear sounds 250 yards away that most people cannot hear beyond 25 yards.
Sherlock Holmes never said “Elementary, my dear Watson”.
Only female mosquitoes will bite you.
If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The head’s picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
Reindeer like to eat bananas.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
A ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
A dog’s sense of smell is about 1000 times better than a person’s.
“Jay” used to be slang for “foolish person.” So when a pedestrian ignored street signs, he was referred to as a “jaywalker.”
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