Monday, April 2, 2012

TRIVIA 02 APRIL

 

  • The largest human organ is the skin, with a surface area of about 25 square feet.
  • The largest iceberg recorded is Iceberg B-15 - 11,000 km2 (4,200 sq mi) in 2000
  • The largest insect egg belongs to the Malaysian jungle nymph, a sticklike insect, and measures about 1.3 centimetres long — larger than a peanut! Some insects, mainly mantises and cockroaches, lay egg cases that are larger, but they contain about 200 individual eggs.
  • The largest item on any menu in the world is probably the roast camel, sometimes served at Bedouin wedding feasts. The camel is stuffed with a sheep's carcass, which is stuffed with chickens, which are stuffed with fish, which are stuffed with eggs.
  • The largest living organism ever found is a honey mushroom, Armillaria ostoyae. It covers 3.4 square miles of land in the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon, and it's still growing
  • The largest muscle in the human body is the buttock muscle.
  • The largest shark ever caught with a rod was just less than seventeen feet long.
  • The largest single flower is the Rafflesia or "corpse flower". They are generally 3 feet in diameter with the record being 42 inches.
  • The largest US city in area is Juneau, Alaska, which covers 3,108 square miles. Los Angeles covers only 458.2 square miles.
  • The last of a cat's senses to develop is sight.

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