That’s All, Folks!

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Over almost 8 years I have enjoyed sharing this with you and it has been fun.  I’ve reached a lot of people and, based on various emails and comments to the blog touched a lot of people in a positive way.

However, as with all good things, it’s time to call it a day with this blog as the time commitments in my personal and professional life require me to make some cutbacks in the number of lists / blogs I maintain: this will be the last post to this site.  I will keep the content up for a while for people to peruse.

Thank you for allowing me to be a part of your life over the years!

Best regards,

Michael Gallagher

Trivia of the Day for Sunday

The Australian Emu holds the land speed record for birds at 31 mph.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

The world’s smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.

Humans and Dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

Trivia of the Day for Saturday

The ant can lift 50 times its own weight.

A bowling pin needs to tilt only 7.5 degrees to fall.

1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on TV at some point in their lives.

The study of word origins is called etymology.

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

Trivia of the Day for Friday

According to an old English system of time units, a moment is one and a half minutes.

In 1855, dentist Robert Arthur was the first to use gold to fill cavities.

The smallest bone in the body is the stirrup.

The average mattress contains 2 million house dust mites.

No other animal gives us more by-products than the pig.

Trivia of the Day for Thursday

Mexican jumping beans jump because of a moth larva inside the bean.

An electric eel produces an average of 400 volts.

A myrmecologist studies ants.

To crack a whip, the tip must be traveling faster than the speed of sound.

Sugar was first added to chewing gum in 1869 by a dentist named William Semple.

Trivia of the Day for Wednesday

Lee Harvey Oswald’s cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.

In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.

Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.

At the nearest point, Russia and America are less than 4 km apart.
The Channel between England and France grows about 300 millimeters each year.

Trivia of the Day for Tuesday

Why is the color blue used for baby boys?

Several centuries ago, it was believed satanic spirits hovered around nurseries waiting for a chance to enter the bodies of young children. It was also believed these evil spirits could be repelled by the color blue, which was the color of the Heavens.  Since it was considered important to protect young males, the custom developed to dress young boys in blue to ward off evil spirits lurking about.

Trivia of the Day for Monday

Einstein couldn’t speak fluently when he was age nine.

You’re more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than in any other weather.

The average person laughs about 5 times a day.

A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 600 mph.

The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.

Trivia of the Day for Sunday

Why are so many umbrellas black?

When umbrellas first came into greater use during the 18^th century, they were made of oil-soaked cotton cloth that was stretched over a whalebone. The purpose of the oil was to make the cotton cloth water proof, but it also gave the cloth a black-looking color. While this type of umbrella was very waterproof, it wasn’t very durable. Soon, newer and better umbrellas were made, and since the color black was associated with effective waterproofing, most of the newer models were dyed black.

Trivia of the Day for Saturday

Mars has a volcano, Olympus Mons, which is 310-370 miles in diameter and 16 miles high.

The statue “The Thinker” by Rodin is actually a portrait of the Italian poet Dante.

X-ray technology has shown that there are 3 different versions of the “Mona Lisa” under the visible one.

A pig’s snout is called a gruntle.

The chemical pectin, found in ripe fruit, causes jam to set when cooling.