Your feet swell during the day and can become 10 percent bigger at the end of the day than they were when you woke up this morning. I promise this will be the last one about feet for a while.
City Ordinance #352 in Pacific Grove, California (USA) makes it illegal, actually a misdemeanor, to kill or threaten to kill a butterfly.
The most popular name for a male cat is Tiger.
The state flower of Alaska is a forget-me-not.
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According to Goodyear, who allegedly spent 10 years researching this, a person’s right shoe will wear out faster than your left shoe.
An average person takes 18,000 steps per day. In your average lifetime, you will walk the equivalent of three times around the world. I’m tired just thinking about it.
George Washington had a size 13 foot. Robert E. Lee had a size 4.5 foot. I have a size 12.5 foot, sometimes 13, sometimes 12 – it just depends on how much water I am retaining on any given day.
People are going to think I have a foot fetish with three days in a row of this stuff…
A hummingbird can not stand on its feet as they are not strong enough to hold them up on a flat surface. I also have a hummingbird feeder in my back yard.
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There are more chickens than people in the world.
Plymouth Rock weighs seven tons.
Eli Whitney made more money as a gun manufacturer than he did from the cotton gin.
The roller coaster was invented in the 17th century in Russia.
There are more sweat glands on the soles of your feet than on any other part of your body, which is kinda why I mentioned sweaty feet earlier in this week’s trivia.
Speaking of feet, did you know African elephants stay on their feet for 35 to 40 years?
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William Moulton Marston was the creator of Wonder Woman. He also invented the polygraph.
Flamingos can only eat when their heads are upside down.
Abraham Lincoln died in a bed slept in by his assassin, John Wilkes Booth.
Chinese celebrate their birthdays only once every ten years.
A toad has no teeth.
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There are 11 points on the Canadian flag.
Montgomery Ward’s first catalog was only one sheet of paper. It was first printed in 1872.
Almost half of the bones in your body are in your hands and feet.
Istanbul, Turkey is actually in two continents – Asia and Europe.
Your brain is approximately 80% water.
Your feet perspire approximately one-half of a pint of water per day. Here in Houston my feet perspire a whole pint, but that’s more information than you wanted to know beside it being damned hot here most days in Houston.
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The letter “Q” is the only letter not used in the spelling of any of the 50 US states.
The great horned owl is the only animal that will eat a skunk.
The kiwi is the only bird that has nostrils at the end of its bill.
The National Safety Council says more Americans choke on toothpicks than choking on anything else.
“Celluwipes” was the original name of Kleenex during the initial marketing effort in 1924.
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Sharks are the only fish that can blink both eyes.
James Buchanan was the only bachelor US President.
Maine is the only state in the US which has one syllable.
Lake Michigan is the only Great Lake entirely in the USA.
Nepal is the only country in the world which does not have a rectangular flag – it has two triangular pennants, one on top of the other.
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“La Giaconda” is the actual title of the “Mona Lisa.”
In 1949, Ronald Reagan was selected as the man with “the most nearly perfect male figure” by the University of Southern California’s Division of Fine Arts.
U.S. Patent # 3,593,345 was granted for the “whisper seat,” a toilet seat with soundproof lining to prevent noise from being heard by others.
The honey bee is the only bee that dies after stinging.
The bat is the only mammal that can fly.
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Noah’s ark was constructed out of cypress wood.
Dirty snow melts faster than white snow because it is darker and absorbs more heat.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Signals on your telephone travel 100,000 miles per second.
An elephant is not afraid of a mouse.
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Okay, I’m gonna try something a little different today: attached are 10 questions related to the year 1960. Think about them, and see if you can come up with the same answer I am including just a ways down.
1. Who was the US pilot sentenced to ten years in a Soviet prison for flying over Russia?
2. Inspired by the popularity of Elvis Presley, this Broadway play featured such songs as “Put on a Happy Face” and “Kids.” Name the musical.
3. Who played Bob on “My Three Sons” which began its twelve year run on CBS during this year.
4. Name the major engineering project in Egypt that eventually caused the ancient Temple of the Isis to be covered with water.
5. Who retired as manager of the New York Yankees this year?
6. Name the thirty six pound communications balloon put into orbit in 1960.
7. What was unique about the movies “Behind the Great Wall” and “Scent of Mystery?”
8. What was the SS. Hope?
9. Name the criminal, executed this year, who penned the book “Cell 2455 Death Row.”
10. What famous figure commented about her fashion budget of $30,000 a year: “to spend that much I’d have to wear sable underwear!”?
Scroll down a bit for the answers…don’t cheat
And here are the answers.. please don’t cheat!
1. Francis Gary Powers.
2. “Bye Bye Birdie.”
3. William Frawley.
4. The Aswan Dam.
5. Casey Stengal.
6. “Echo I.”
7. They were known as “smellies,” films that actually emitted odors.
8. An ex-Navy destroyer outfitted as a floating hospital.
9. Caryl Chessman.
10. Jackie Kennedy.
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