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Daily Dose of Trivia: Smorgas-Bord 6
It is estimated that millions of trees in the
world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then
forget where they hid them!
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby",
which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
Of all the words in the English language, the
word set has the most definitions!
A toothpick is the object most often choked on
by Americans!
Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the
United States!
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
The most used letter in the English alphabet is
'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
There are more than 50,000 earthquakes
throughout the world every year!
The original name for the butterfly was
'flutterby'!
Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or
left handed... or is that paws?!
The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up
to seven!
Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just
like humans use fingerprints!
Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually
charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it red or blue!
Apples are more efficient than caffeine in
keeping people awake in the mornings!
Smelling bananas and/or green
apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!
A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per
day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there,
though!
The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill
about 2,200 people!
A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can
be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court!
After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food
and then eats it again!