Friday, October 21, 2011

TRIVIA BITS

 

  • A dog has elbows.
  • A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.
  • A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip.
  • A firm in Britain sold fall-out shelters for pets.
  • A Flemish artist is responsible for one of the smallest paintings in history. It is a picture of a miller and his mill, and it was painted on to a grain of corn.
  • A flush toilet exists that dates back to 2000 BC.
  • A fully loaded supertanker travelling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
  • A 'geep' is the resulting offspring of a sheep and a goat.
  • A ghost writer pens an anonymous book.
  • A giraffe's neck contains the same number of vertebrae as a human.

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