Monday, May 28, 2012

TRIVIA BITS 28 MAY

 

  • Work on St. Peter’s Basilica, Rome, began in 1506. Construction took over a century, reaching completion in 1612.
  • Worker ants may live seven years and the queen may live as long as 15 years.
  • World heavyweight boxing champion, Gene Tunney also lectured on Shakespeare at Yale University later in his life.
  • Worms are hermaphroditic, they have both sets of sexual organs on their bodies.
  • X-ray technology has shown there are 3 different versions of the Mona Lisa under the visible one.
  • Yoda’s original name before being shortened to just “Yoda” was “Minch Yoda”.  Lucas eventually decided to leave the first name out along with not giving away many details about Yoda’s past.
  • You share your birthday with at least nine million other people around the world.
  • Your stomach cells secrete hydrochloric acid, a corrosive compound used to treat metals in the industrial world. It can pickle steel, but mucous lining the stomach wall keeps this poisonous liquid safely in the digestive system.
  • Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it
  • You're more likely to be a target for mosquitoes if you consume bananas.
  • Yugoslavia is bordered by seven other countries.
  • Yul Brynner stared in the play 'The king and I' more than 4000 times.

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