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Trivia & ----19 The expression "good to the last drop" used by Maxwell House Coffee was coined by Theodore Roosevelt The "lock" in the word "wedlock" comes from the Old English word "lac," which means "action" ("wed" is Old English for "pledge"). The term "dixie" was first used by a New Orleans bank that issued bilingual French-American $10 bills ("dix" is the French word for "10"). It wasn't until Daniel Decatur Emmett's 1859 song "Dixie" that it is was applied to mean the south. Strawberries, blueberries, and other "berries" are not actually berries according to botanical definition. The botanical group "berry" actually consists of things like cucumbers, oranges, and grapes! Do you know what sound a giraffe makes? That's right; no sound! So how do you know if there's a giraffe following you? You don't hear anything. 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie. Tmesis is the act of putting one word inside another, for example, abso-bloody-lutely. The first national park, Yellowstone, was proclaimed a national park in 1872 however there was no National Park Service until 1916. Until then, the parks were administered by the U.S. Army. When the Park Service was formed they got their first uniforms from the Army, hence the ranger (campaign) hats. The opening to the cave in which a bear hibernates is always on the north slope. Abdul Kassem Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia in the tenth
century, carried his library with him wherever he went. The 117,000 volumes were carried
by 400 camels which were trained to walk in alphabetical order. Trivia & ----20 Quebec and Newfoundland are the only two Canadian provinces which do not allow personalized license plates. The human body contains about 60,000 miles of blood vessels The deepest hole ever drilled was in the Kola Peninsula (Former USSR) - 7 miles deep An electric eel gives off an average discharge of 400 volts. The height of the 984-foot-tall Eiffel Tower varies by as much as six inches, depending on the temperature. The Wright Brothers' historic flight lasted 12 seconds. The average flea can leap about 8 inches, more than 100 times its own height. The great pyramid of King Khafu is so big that 10 football fields could fit onto the ground area covered by the pyramid. The human tongue has approximately 9,000 taste buds. A mosquito has 47 teeth. An average giraffe heart weighs 25 pounds and is 2 feet long. A single ounce of gold can be beaten into a film so fine that it would cover 100 square feet. The giant Sequoia tree bears seeds so small that 3,000 of them weigh one ounce. The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them would burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired." |
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