Becky's Trivia Corner

 My friend Emily emailed this to me, and I cannot vouch for it's complete accuracy.  That being said, I love trivia! Let this soak into your brain :)


If right handed, you tend to chew your food on the right side of your mouth.  Left handed, you tend to chew on the left side.

To make half a kilo of honey, bees must collect nectar from over two million flowers.

Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by 'Bayer'.

Communications giant Nokia was founded in 1865 as a wood-pulp mill by Fredrik Idestam.

Tourists visiting Iceland should know tipping is considered an insult!

People in nudist colonies play volleyball more than any other sport.

Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952 but declined.

Astronauts can't belch - there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.

Ancient Roman, Chinese and German societies often used urine as mouthwash.

The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.  In the Renaissance era, it was fashion to shave them.

Because of the speed at which Earth moves around the Sun, it is impossible for a solar eclipse to last more than seven minutes 58 seconds.

The night of January 20 is "Saint Agnes's Eve" which is regarded a time when a young woman dreams of her future husband.

There are over 25 million bubbles waiting to burst out of each bottle of Champagne.

Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.

It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite number of times!

Gold is the only metal that doesn't rust, even if it's buried in the ground for thousands of years.

Your tongue is the only muscle attached at only one end.

If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water.  When a human body is dehydrated its thirst mechanism shuts off. 

When it originally appeared in 1886, Coca Cola was billed as an Esteemed Brain Tonic and Intellectual Beverage.

Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals.

Kites were used in during the Civil War to deliver letters and newspapers.

Auld Lang  Syne is sung at the stroke of midnight in almost every English-speaking country in the world to bring in the new year.

For every real Christmas tree harvested, two to three seedlings are planted in its place.

Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent.

Peanut oil is used for cooking in submarines because it doesn't smoke unless it's heated above 450°F.

The Shell Oil Company originally began as a novelty shop selling seashells in London.

The roar heard when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.

Nine out of every ten living things live in the ocean.

The banana cannot reproduce itself.  It can only be propagated by the hand of man.

Airports at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.

The University of Alaska spans four time zones.

The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself.

In ancient Greece, tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant she accepted.

Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil) and Mazaru (Speak no evil).

Warner Communications paid $28 million for the copyright to the song Happy Birthday.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

A comet's tail always points away from the sun.

The 1976 swine flu vaccine caused more death and illness than the disease it was intended to prevent.

Caffeine increases the power of aspirin and other painkillers, that's why it is found in some medicines.

The military salute is a motion that evolved from medieval times, when knights in armor raised their visors to reveal their identity.

If you get into the bottom of a well or a tall chimney and look up, you can see stars, even in the middle of the day.

When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go.  The first sense lost is sight.

Trivia in Roman mythology was the goddess who haunted crossroads, graveyards and was the goddess of sorcery and witchcraft.  She wandered about at night, and was seen only by barking of dogs who told of her approach.

In ancient times strangers shook hands to show they were unarmed.

Strawberries are the only fruit whose seeds grow on the outside.

Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit; 167 calories per hundred grams.

It cost the soft drink industry $100 million a year for thefts involving vending machines.

The moon moves about two inches away from the Earth each year.

The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.

Due to earth's gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 meters.

Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy.

Soldiers do not march in step when going across bridges because they could set up a vibration which could be sufficient to knock down the bridge.

The painting that won second place in a competition held by the US National Academy of Design was hanging upside down when judged.

Everything weighs one percent less at the equator.

For every extra kilogram carried on a space flight, 530 kg of excess fuel is needed for lift-off.

The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements.