Wednesday, February 1, 2012

TRIVIA BITS

 

  • Only full-grown male crickets can chirp.
  • Only male canaries can sing.
  • Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older
  • Only one western film has even been directed by a woman.
  • Only the male nightingale sings.
  • Oophorectomy is the surgical removal of the ovaries.
  • Opium was used widely as a painkiller during the American Civil War. As a result, over one hundred thousand soldiers had become drug addicts by the end of the war.
  • Oranges cease to ripen after picking.
  • Oranges, lemons, watermelons, and tomatoes are berries.
  • Orchids have the smallest seeds. It takes more than 1.25 million seeds to weigh 1 gram.

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