Thursday, December 30, 2010

Thursday's Useless Trivia and Facts ~ December 30 2010

  1. The first known phobia to be described: Hydrophobia, a fear of water, in the mid-1500s.
  2. All hornets are wasps; not all wasps are hornets.
  3. About 25 million meteors hit Earth's atmosphere every day.
  4. Mr Donald's restaurants will buy 54,000,000 pounds of fresh apples this year.
  5. At latitude 60degrees south, it is possible to sail around the world without reaching land.
  6. Really? There are 127 ways to spell the last name Raleigh.
  7. Relative to body size, crows have the largest brains of any bird.
  8. The first Harley-Davidson motorcycle, built in 1903, used a tomato can for a carburetor.
  9. Good news? Astronauts cannot burp in zero gravity, but they can still fart.
  10. Alaska is the only state whose name can be typed on a single keyboard row.

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