Friday, December 2, 2011

TRIVIA BITS

 

  • Hitchcock used chocolate syrup to portray the blood seen in the shower scene for his classic film Psycho.
  • Hoover Dam is 726 feet tall and 660 feet thick at its base. Enough rock was excavated in its construction to build the Great Wall of China. Contrary to old wives' tales, no workers were buried in the dam's concrete.
  • Hostess Twinkies were invented in 1931 by James Dewar, manager of Continental Bakeries' Chicago factory. He envisioned the product as a way of using the company's thousands of shortcake pans which were otherwise employed only during the strawberry season. Originally called Little Shortcake Fingers, they were renamed Twinkie Fingers, and finally "Twinkies."
  • Human adults breathe about 23 000 time a day.
  • Human hair and fingernails do not continue to grow after death.
  • Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.
  • Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour - about 1.5 pounds a year. By 70 years of age, an average person will have lost 105 pounds of skin.
  • Humans shed and re-grow outer skin cells about every 27 days - almost 1,000 new skins in a lifetime.
  • Hummingbirds can't walk.
  • Hydroponics is the technique by which plants are grown in water without soil.

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