{"id":674,"date":"2008-02-07T08:50:55","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T08:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.131.168.108\/wordpress\/?p=674"},"modified":"2008-02-07T08:50:55","modified_gmt":"2008-02-07T08:50:55","slug":"674","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2008\/02\/07\/674\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

I have absolutely nothing of interest to say today, so I went to Bored.com<\/a> and found some random trivia for you to enjoy on this Thursday:<\/font><\/p>\n

1. Facetious
\nand abstemious are the only words that contain all the vowels in the correct
\norder.<\/span><\/p>\n

2. “Mad
\nAbout You” star Paul Reiser plays the piano on the show’s theme song.<\/span><\/p>\n

3. “Taxi”
\nis spelled exactly the same in English, French, German, Swedish, Portuguese,
\nand Dutch.<\/span><\/p>\n

4. “The
\nsixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue
\ntwister in English.<\/span><\/p>\n

5. 1 in 5,000
\nnorth Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.<\/span><\/p>\n

6. 11% of the
\nworld is left-handed.<\/span><\/p>\n

7. 111, 111,
\n111 X 111, 111, 111 = 12, 345, 678, 987, 654, 321<\/span><\/p>\n

8. 22,000
\nchecks will be deducted from the wrong bank accounts in the next hour.<\/span><\/p>\n

9. 315 entries
\nin Webster’s 1996 dictionary were misspelled.<\/span><\/p>\n

10. 40% of
\nMcDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.<\/span><\/p>\n

11. In Disney’s
\nFantasia<\/i>, the Sorcerer to whom Mickey
\nplayed an apprentice was named Yensid, which is Disney spelled backward.<\/span><\/p>\n

12. 85% of men
\nwho die of heart attacks during intercourse, are found to have been cheating on
\ntheir wives.<\/span><\/p>\n

13. 28% of Africa is classified as wilderness. In North
\n America, it’s 38%.<\/span><\/p>\n

14. Charlie
\nChaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.<\/span><\/p>\n

15. A 1.5 oz.
\nmilk chocolate bar has only 220 calories. A 1.75 oz. serving of potato chips
\nhas 230 calories.<\/span><\/p>\n

16. A acre of
\ncoffee trees can produce up to 10,000 pounds of coffee cherries. That amounts
\nto approximately 2000 pounds of beans after hulling or milling.<\/span><\/p>\n

17. A bee could
\ntravel 4 million miles (6.5 million km) at 7 mph (11 km\/h) on the energy it
\nwould obtain from 1 gallon (3.785 liters) of nectar, or it could just sit down
\non and enjoy that honey properly.  <\/span>(This
\none made me think of Terri!)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

18. A chef’s
\nhat is tall and balloons at the top so as to counteract the intense heat in the
\nkitchen. The unique shape allows air to circulate around the scalp, keeping the
\nhead cool.<\/span><\/p>\n

19. A
\nchimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can’t.<\/span><\/p>\n

20. A healthy
\n(non-colorblind) human eye can distinguish between 500 shades of gray.<\/span><\/p>\n

21. A giraffe
\ncan clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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