Trivia

Here’s a little Trivia for you. However, I can't guarantee the accuracy of all the points. :-)

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king in history:
Spades - King David
Hearts - Charlemagne
Clubs - Alexander, the Great
Diamonds - Julius Caesar

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.

In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase......... "goodnight, sleep tight."

It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month, which
we know today as the honeymoon.

In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts... So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them "Mind your pints and quarts, and settle down." It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's"

Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim, or handle, of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle" is the phrase inspired by this practice.

(On the temperature of water in wells) The reason why the water in wells becomes colder in summer is that the earth is then rarefied by the heat, and releases into the air all the heat-particles it happens to have. So, the more the earth is drained of heat, the colder becomes the moisture that is concealed in the ground. On the other hand, when all the earth condenses and contracts and congeals with the cold, then, of course, as it contracts, it squeezes out into the wells whatever heat it holds. – Lucretius

Trivia

Here’s a little Trivia for you. However, I can't guarantee the accuracy of all the points. :-)

Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.

Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV was Fred and Wilma Flintstone

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

If you were to spell out numbers, you would have to go until one thousand before you find the letter "A"

Did You Know ???

The fact that.....

Human Body

• Like finger prints, everyone’s tongue is different
• Women blink nearly twice as much as men
• You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath
• It is impossible to lick your elbow
• People say bless you when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond
• If you sneeze too hard. You can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die
• The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps to squirt blood 30 feet
• Wearing headphones for just over an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
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Words

• The name of the entire continents end with the same letter that they start with

• The most common name in the world is 'Mohammed'
• Most lipsticks contain fish scales
• TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on one row of the keyboard
• STEWARDESSES is the longest word typed with only the left hand
• Shakespeare invented the words ‘ assassination’ and ‘bump’
• The “sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language

General

• What is the only food that doesn’t spoil ? – Answer – Honey
• American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in the first-class
• Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history:-
• Spades – King David
• Clubs – Alexander the Great
• Hearts – Charlemagne
• Diamonds – Julius Caesar
• 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
• If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in a battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in a battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

Inventions

• The electric chair was invented by a dentist
• The cigarette lighter was invented before the match

Animals

• A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out
• A snail can sleep for three years
• All polar bears are left handed
• Butterflies taste with their feet
• Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump
• In the last 4000 years no new animals have been domesticated
• It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky
• An ant always fall over on its right side when intoxicated
• Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendents