Trivia

Some trivias I found in the net.

• Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world’s largest zipper manufacturer.
• A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
• A duck’s quack doesn’t echo. No one knows why.
• 40 percent of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
• 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
• On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
• Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog’s heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
• Most lipstick contains fish scales.
• Ketchup was sold in the 1830’s as a medicine.
• Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
• Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
• There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
• Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa’s lips.
• Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That’s the opposite of the norm.
• The original name for the butterfly was “flutterby”!
• By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can’t sink in quicksand.
• Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know you’re there.
• Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
• The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.
• The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.
• Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
• Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
• Adolf Hitler’s mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
• The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
• “Stewardesses” is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand.
• To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
• A mathematical wonder: 111,111,111 multiplied by 111,111,111 gives the result 12,345,678 987,654,321.
• The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
• The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
• The “pound” (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.
• The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
• Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
• The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
• “Dreamt” is the only word in the English language that ends in “mt”.
• It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
• In Chinese, the KFC slogan “finger lickin’ good” comes out as “eat your fingers off”.
• A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.
• European women didn’t wear underwear until the 1900’s.
• We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.
• Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.
• Coca-Cola can be used as car oil.
• Mexico City sinks abut 10 inches a year.
• Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.
• Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.
• When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying”yes” in Sri Lanka.
• There are more chickens than people in the world.
• It’s against the law in Iceland to have a dog.
• The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.
• The only word in the English Language with all vowels in reverse order is
• “subcontinental”.
• There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
• Beethoven poured ice water over his head before he composed.52. In Pakistan, it’s rude to show your feet.