I am finalizing two calendar gifts and some of the fun facts and trivia are ...well fun and trivial. So here goes:
Alektrophobia-
fear of chickens.
One
in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!
Thomas
Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!
A cows normal body temperature is 101.5°F.
Cows
are pregnant for 9 months just like people.
A
mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
John
Quincy Adams Regularly Skinny-Dipped In The Potomac
A
Holstein’s spots are like a fingerprint. No two cows have exactly
the same pattern of black and white spots. They are all different.
A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!
Sharks
kill fewer than 10 people per year. Humans kill about 100 million
Sharks per year.
Clinophobia
is the fear of beds!
A
dairy cow can produce 125 lbs. of saliva a day.
You
speak about 4,800 words a day.
Andrew
Jackson Taught His Parrot To Curse...The parrot had to be
removed from President Jackson's funeral because it wouldn't stop
swearing.
In
the Middle Ages, chicken soup was believed to be an aphrodisiac.
Every
day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!
Tablecloths
were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests
could wipe their hands and faces after eating!
There
are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!
As a
freshman in high school, Dwight Eisenhower injured his knee, and the
wound caused an infection that doctors feared could kill him. They
recommend the leg be amputated, but Eisenhower loved playing sports
so much that he refused the operation, and he somehow made a
miraculous recovery.
Jupiter’s giant red spot is like a tornado and it is 3 times bigger than the earth.
McDonald’s
in India does not serve beef—only chicken, mutton and fish.
The
average cow drinks 30 to 50 gallons of water each day.
The
first animal sent up to outer space was a dog.
In
the 1940's Gerald Ford did a bit of modeling and even posed on the
cover of "Cosmopolitan". His wife Betty was also a dancer
and fashion model, who signed with the John Robert Powers modeling
firm to finance her dance education.
Chickens
were domesticated about 8000 years ago.
On a
clear night, the human eye can see between 2,000 and 3,000 stars in
the sky.
One
car out of every 230 made was stolen last year!
Tourists
visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is
considered an insult!
Forest
fires move faster uphill than downhill!
President
Thomas Jefferson founded the university in 1819 on land that once
belonged to eventual President James Monroe. Jefferson is the only
president to have ever founded an institution of higher learning.
A
'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
John
Adams and Thomas Jefferson were close friends and correspondents —
but they also had a bit of a rivalry. Adams' dying words were,
"Thomas Jefferson survives," unaware that he had died hours
earlier. In another shocker, both died on July 4, 1826.
The
average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!
The
electric chair was invented by a dentist!
Ulysses
S. Grant smoked a ton of cigars — at least 20 a day. After a great
military victory at the Battle of Shiloh, citizens sent him more than
10,000 boxes of cigars as gratitude. He died of throat cancer in
1885.
A
single 30-meter-tall mature tree can absorb as much as 22.7 kilograms
(50 pounds) of carbon dioxide in a year.
No
tree dies of old age. They are generally killed by insects, disease
or by people. California Bristlecone Pines and Giant Sequoias are
regarded as the oldest trees and have been known to live 4,000 to
5,000 years.
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Have a marvelous day and I hope the trivia made you smile a time or two or even learn something!
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