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• The first large-scale relief map was made in 431 BCE for tactical planning in the Peloponnesian War.

• According to Guinness World Records, an American man named Brian Drussle holds the record for densest human alive. A congenital bone disease has led to the man weighing 348 pounds despite his six foot stature and 34 inch waistline.

• The most serious outhouse related accident occurred in Gambit, Alabama in 2005. 14 people were injured, and 2 were killed.

• Doctors are eight times more likely to suffer from severe depression than fireman.

• In 2006, neurologists identified eleven previously unknown "trigger scents" that can be used to radically alter emotion in patients

• Worldwide, cash is taken out of ATMs six hundred times every second.

• Polarized sunglasses block radio waves.

• Toy giant Mattel estimates that Barbie owners have staged over 10 billion Barbie and Ken weddings.

• US $100 bills of series 2003A and later will not burn.

• When born, a baby giraffe will fall eight vertical feet. One out of 20 giraffe calves are killed by the impact.

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Trivia for Today


• 23.2 percent of Americans say they never have dreams.

• Charlemagne's father and two of his sons were named Pippin.

• There are 12 deans named "Wormer" listed in Who's Who in American Administrators of Higher Learning.

• 2002 was the first year in which sales of laptop and notebook computers exceeded traditional desktop computers.

• 61 percent of Swedes cannot describe the difference between Astronomy and Astrology.


• Approximately one-half of one percent of the annual world-wide output of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide is due to soft drink carbonation. Despite the availability of a nearly no-cost switch to nitrogen, soda manufacturers are thus far refusing to make the change.

• The Apple iPhone has a hidden easter egg mode whereby it can mimic the ill-fated Apple Newton, complete with comically inaccurate handwriting recognition.

• The toll-free number (888) 888-8888 was recently purchased by Alliance Carpet Installation And Repair for $1.2 million in AT&T's first auction-format sale of a phone number.

• Despite its similarity to the kidney, navy, and pinto beans, the white bean is completely unrelated and is actually classified as a nut.

• The largest sand castle ever constructed was a half-size replica of the Taj Mahal built in Atlantic City, New Jersey in 1983.

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Trivia for Today


• Gerald Ford's funeral is expected to cost local, state, and federal governments $56 million, half as much as Ronald Reagan's.

• Each year, from December 23rd to December 27th, Americans emit twenty times more carbon dioxide than they do during any other five day period.

• Over a lifetime, people who use loose-leaf tea strainers spend an extra two weeks making cups of tea over those who use teabags.

• The average short story is 3,232 words long.

• American mainstream media reporters covering online worlds such as Second Life outnumber those covering the country of Somolia.


• Each year, American drivers use three billion gallons of gas idling in driveways and parking spots.

• Potato chip makers have out-performed every other sector of the snack food industry in yearly growth since 1932.

• A Harvard English professor's survey of blogs showed that Mark Twain was misquoted twice as often as Winston Churchill, but only half as often as George Orwell.

• Recycled glass bottles are boiled at 310 degrees Fahrenheit to remove their labels.

• In 1963, the USSR spent $2 mill

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• Only seven percent of Americans without vanity plates can remember their car's license plate number.

• On average, an office cubicle will have three pictures on display. Of those three, the cubicle's occupant will appear in only one picture.

• East Tawas, Michigan bills itself as having the most beautiful sunsets in the Midwest. No other Midwest city makes such a claim.

• From 1832 to 1842, lighthouse keeper was the best-paid occupation. The average salary for a lighthouse keeper was $450.00.

• While approximately 42 percent of Americans over the age of 45 can read music, only eight percent of those aged 18 to 45 are able to.


• In Toronto theaters the average bathroom wait time during intermission for a woman is eight minutes, the longest in North America. The average wait for a man is only 40 seconds.

• Using DNA modification, scientists have created squirrels that are allergic to birdseed.

• Given an ample water supply, a human being could survive on the proteins in his or her own hair for approximately three weeks.

• In 2006 alone, four people died while eating Ritz™ crackers. Three of the deaths were attributed to allergic reactions to peanuts; the fourth was 16-year-old John Johanssenn of Missouri, who choked to death when his friends dared him to eat 15 crackers at once.

• When combined, the area of all of the infields in Major League baseball stadiums totals about 220,000 square meters. The infields contain enough sand to fill 42 million sandboxes.

• Wales has the most Rugby pitches per capita with one pitch for every 1287 people. New Zealand is second: one for every 1528 people.

• The summit of Ben Nevis, Scotland, consistently has more wind than the summit of the Matterhorn.

• Geologists estimate that at the current rate of erosion the White Cliffs of Dover will become the White Slopes of Dover in March of the year 50257.

• Approximately two percent of the buildings in Europe considered to be 'castles' by the World Congress of Castle Architects are privately owned and inhabited as a primary or secondary residence.

• Since 1998 the number of pictures taken by tourists (both film and digital images) has increased by 984 percent. The number of prints made from these images has fallen 57.6 percent.

Wales has the most Rugby pitches per capita with one pitch for every 1287 people. New Zealand is second: one for every 1528 people.

The summit of Ben Nevis, Scotland, consistently has more wind than the summit of the Matterhorn.

Geologists estimate that at the current rate of erosion the White Cliffs of Dover will become the White Slopes of Dover in March of the year 50257.
Approximately two percent of the buildings in Europe considered to be 'castles' by the World Congress of Castle Architects are privately owned and inhabited as a primary or secondary residence.

Since 1998 the number of pictures taken by tourists (both film and digital images) has increased by 984 percent. The number of prints made from these images has fallen 57.6 percent.

• An oak tree reaches full sexual maturity at age 8 or so. Over the rest of its lifespan the vast majority of the biomass it produces will be in the form of acorns, the weight of which will far outstrip the weight of new leaves, trunk, branches and roots combined.

• If the dairy industry in Great Britain were suddenly no longer able to use byproducts of the Scotch Whisky distilling process as feed, milk prices would rise approximately 23.8 percent inside of a week.

• Cromwell was a vegetarian. The only meat he consumed was in the form of what is now referred to as "scotch eggs".

• The mythical Icelandic folk hero, Sveinn Thor Sigurdsson, is supposed to have been the person who lit the fires that heat the hot springs for which Iceland is so famous.

• Printing costs for Norse publications are approximately 18.24 percent higher than in the rest of Europe and North America due to the extra ink needed to accommodate the prevalence of diacritical marks.

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