TRIVIA BITS 27 APRIL

 

• The Turk's consider it considered unlucky to step on a piece of bread.
• The two highest IQ's ever recorded (on a standard test) both belong to women.
• The two lines that connect your top lip to the bottom of your nose are known as the philtrum.
• The two longest one-syllable words in the English language are "screeched" and "strengths."
• The typewriter was invented in 1829, and the automatic dishwasher in 1889.
• The typical housefly cruises at 8 km/hr.
• The uncut version of the movie 'The Longest Day' was 179 minutes long.
• The United States consumes 25% of all the worlds energy.
• The United States government keeps its supply of silver at the US Military Academy at West Point, NY.
• The United States, which accounts for six per cent of the population of the world, consumes nearly sixty per cent of the world's resources.