Fascinating Facts and Trivia - Printable Version

Fascinating Facts and Trivia - Printable Version

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RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 31-01-2020 21:46

Starbucks Coffee is named after a character in the novel Moby Dick, the first mate Starbuck.

RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 31-01-2020 21:47

Carlsberg Special Brew was created specifically for Sir Winston Churchill, as Denmark’s thank you for Britain’s fight for freedom in World War II.

RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 31-01-2020 21:49

Apparantly it is impossible to break a full-length piece of spaghetti, by bending it from both ends, into two pieces.

It always makes three because the shockwave travels down the shaft and makes a second break.

RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - GMach1 - 01-02-2020 15:35

A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.

In Iceland, a Big Mac costs $5.50.

Broccoli and cauliflower are the only vegetables that are flowers.

There is no solid proof of who built the Taj Mahal.

In a survey of 200000 ostriches over 80 years, not one tried to bury its head in the sand.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. A quarter has 119.

RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 01-02-2020 20:32

Tsundoku is the act of acquiring books and not reading them.

RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 01-02-2020 20:35

Goats have rectangular pupils.

RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 01-02-2020 20:36

One of the world's largest stockpiles of nuclear weapons, U.S. Navy base near Seattle is partially defended by trained dolphins.

RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 01-02-2020 20:41

Bones found at Seymour Island indicate that at one time, 37 to 40 million years ago, penguins stood at a formidable 6 feet tall and weighed 250 pounds.

RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - GMach1 - 01-02-2020 21:44

Patch collecting or badge collecting (also, scutelliphily, from Latin scutellus meaning little shield, and Greek phileein meaning to love) is the hobby of collecting souvenir patches or badges. And I am proud to say I am ONE-badges not patches. Examples of collection:

RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - Chrisst - 02-02-2020 16:11

I learnt this afternoon on 6 Music that the 3rd Monday of January is the most miserable Monday of the year. This year it fell on the 20th and it's called Blue Monday.
However it's not the most common day for throwing a sickie. No, that's tomorrow, the first Monday of February.