Friday, January 27, 2012

TRIVIA BITS

 

  • No two spider webs are the same.
  • No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
  • Nobody is buried in Grant’s tomb. President & Mrs. Grant are entombed there. A body is buried only when it is placed in the ground and covered with dirt.
  • North American Indian, Sitting Bull, died on 15 December 1890. His bones were laid to rest in North Dakota, but a business group wanted him moved to a 'more natural' site in South Dakota. Their campaign was rejected so they stole the bones, and they now reside in Sitting Bull Park, South Dakota.
  • North American Indians ate Watercress to dissolve gravel and stones in the bladder.
  • Numbering houses in London streets only began in 1764.
  • Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
  • Oak trees do not have acorns until they are fifty years old or older.
  • Obsidian, used by American Indians for tools, weapons and ornaments, is dark volcanic glass.
  • Oddly, no term existed for "homosexuality" in ancient Greece - there were only a variety of expressions referring to specific homosexual roles. Experts find this baffling, as the old Greek culture regarded male/male love in the highest regard. According to several linguists, the word "homosexual" was not coined until 1869 by the Hungarian physician Karoly Maria Benkert.

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