TRIVIA BITS

 

• The large disk used in Tiddlywinks is called a Squidger.
• The largest body of fresh water in the world is Lake Superior.
• The largest cell in the human body is the female ovum, or egg cell. It is about 1/180 inch in diameter. The smallest cell in the human body is the male sperm. It takes about 175,000 sperm cells to weigh as much as a single egg cell.
• The largest cell in the human body is the female reproductive cell, the ovum. The smallest is the male sperm.
• The largest cockroach on record is one measured at 3.81 inches in length.
• The largest crowd for a basketball game was 800,000 people at the Olympic Stadium, Athens, Greece on 4 April 1968.
• The largest desert in the world, the Sahara, is 3,500,000 square miles.
• The largest eggs in the world are laid by a shark.
• The largest gold nugget ever found weighed 172 lbs., 13 oz.
• The largest hailstone ever recorded was 17.5 inches in diameter - bigger than a basketball.