Saturday, November 12, 2011

TRIVIA BITS

 

  • By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
  • By the time a child finishes elementary school she will have witnessed 8,000 murders and 100,000 acts of violence on television.
  • By the time you turn 70, your heart will have beat some two-and-a-half billion times (figuring on an average of 70 beats per minute.)
  • C3P0 is the first character to speak in Star Wars.
  • Caffeine: there are 100 to 150 milligrams of caffeine in an eight-ounce cup of brewed coffee, 10 milligrams in a six-ounce cup of cocoa, 5 to 10 milligrams in one ounce of bittersweet chocolate, and 5 milligrams in one ounce of milk chocolate.
  • Calcium sulphate hemihydrate is more commonly known as Plaster of Paris.
  • California’s Frank Epperson invented the Popsicle in 1905 when he was 11-years-old.
  • Camels are born without humps.
  • Canada ( 9 970 610 sq km) is larger than China ( 9 596 961 sq km) which is larger than the USA ( 9 363 130 sq km).
  • Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.

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