Friday, August 5, 2011

TRIVIA BITS

 

  • draughts (checkers) is older than chess
  • dreamt is the only word that ends in mt
  • dry ice transforms directly from being a solid to a gas
  • duck eggs are the largest eggs in the world
  • due to gravitational effects you weigh is slightly less when the moon is directly overhead
  • during a total solar eclipse the temperature can drop by 6°C (20°F)
  • DVDs are physically the same size as a CDs but can store 13 times more data
  • each red blood cell lives an average of 4 months and travels between the lungs and other tissue 75,000 times before returning to bone marrow to die

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