Trivia of the Day for Tuesday

A parrot’s vocabulary is generally no more than twenty words.

The average American eats 286 eggs per year.

The Pet Rock was invented by Gary Dahl. Whatever happened to Gary Dahl?

Eyelashes usually last around five months.

Mulberry Garden was once the center of prostitution in London, England. Today, it is the site of Buckingham Palace. Betcha Prince Charles likes it there.

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Trivia of the Day for Monday

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

The volume of the Earth’s moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.

Samuel Clemens, Mark Twain, was born on a day in 1835 when Haley’s Comet came into view and he died exactly 75 years later in 1910 when Haley’s Comet came back.

The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle.

The symbol on the pound key “#” is called an octothorpe.

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Trivia of the Day for Sunday

The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.

Roses MAY Be red, but violets ARE, indeed, violet.

By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can’t sink in quicksand.

Casey Kasem is the voice of Shaggy on Scooby-Doo.

Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

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Trivia of the Day for Saturday

The dot over the letter ‘i’ is called a tittle.

If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

The mask used by Michael Myers in the original Halloween was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.

The original name for the butterfly was ‘flutterby’

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Trivia of the Day for Friday

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

Money isn’t made out of paper, it’s made out of cotton.

A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.

The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.

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Trivia of the Day for Thursday

Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors.  It also took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa’s lips.

Sharon Stone was the first Star Search spokesmodel.

Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.

Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.

Back in the mid to late 80′s, an IBM compatible computer wasn’t considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft’s Flight Simulator.

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Trivia of the Day for Wednesday

Most lipstick contains fish scales.

Upper and lower case letters are named ‘upper’ and ‘lower,’ because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the upper case’ letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, ‘lower case’ letters.

There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

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