Saturday, May 19, 2012

TRIVIA BITS 19 MAY

 

  • To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs -- it will let you go instantly.
  • To make half a kilo of honey, bees must collect nectar from over 2 million individual flowers.
  • To romanticise his image, Warner Brothers claimed that Humphrey Bogart was born on Christmas day; he was born 23 January 1899.
  • Tokyo was once called Edo.
  • Tomato ketchup was once sold as a medicine.
  • Trevor Francis was the first soccer player to be transferred for £1 000 000 ( Birmingham City to Nottingham Forest 1979 )
  • Truffles, or mushrooms that grow below the ground, are one of the world's most expensive foods. One variety, Tuber melanosporum, can cost between $800 and $1,500 a pound.
  • Turkey's often look up at the sky during a rainstorm. Unfortunately some have been known to drown as a result.
  • Turquoise was once called 'Turkey stone'.
  • Twenty two carat gold has 916 parts per thousand pure gold.

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