Sorry, Peeps – It’s been one of those Mondays… and I didn’t get a blog written today. So in honor of my “un” blog I’m going to let you guys vie for a small prize….
Simply post any piece of trivia – such as that the fact the only bachelor president in US history was James Buchanan.
I won’t be picky – any piece of trivia counts.
I’ll draw a name and the winner will receive a black Harlequin/Nascar card wallet. It will hold business cards or credit cards in your purse!
That’s all there is to it!
Janice 
Philadelphia – called city of brotherly love.
Philos – love of
adelphos – brother
Love of a brother – or City of Brotherly love.
My useless trivia:
Daniel Boone detested coonskin caps.
Oops – forgot to say – comes from the Greek
The name “Google” originated from a misspelling of “googol”, which refers to 10 to the 100th power, the number represented by a 1 followed by one hundred zeros.
This trivia was given to me by my oldest son… I liked it since I use Google all the time.
On March 9, 2008, for the first time in Nascar history, an unAmerican car won the race!
Chocolate syrup was used for blood in the famous 45 second shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s movie, Psycho, which actually took 7 days to shoot.
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow film down while shooting so you could see his moves. That’s the opposite of the norm.
I so wish I had this problem! LOL
James Dean only starred in three major films: East of Eden, Rebel Withouta Cause and Giant. He was 24 when he died in a car accident.
There is only one word in the english language that uses ‘shch’ together – pushchair.
Wow – I love all the fun trivia! I may have to do this again sometime.
I’ll draw a winner on Wednesday – mid morning or so…
Janice
Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
Before all-porcelain false teeth were perfected in the mid-19th century, dentures were commonly made with teeth pulled from the mouths of dead soldiers following a battle. Teeth extracted from U.S. Civil War soldier cadavers were shipped to England by the barrel to dentists.
*shudders*
A grasshopper can leap over obstacles 500 times its own height. In relation to its size, it has the greatest jumping ability of all animals
An ant can survive for up to two weeks underwater.
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
Coca Cola was originally green.
Santa Fe, NM is the highest capital at 7000 ft above sea level.
Hudson Bay is the largest bay in the world.
The names of all the continents start and end with the same letter.
Houdini’s real name was Ehrich Weiss. My son did a book report on him last year.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball. My dad is a golf maniac.
Interesting trivia from our platypus tour.
The dominant male platypus will feed when he wants to and others in the area will leave him alone. This temporal territory (territory by time) or they can have territory by space if there is enough room.
The most poisonous fish in the world is the Stone Fish.
I don’t know any trivia but looove the comments.
Since I’m in the throws of wedding craziness here’s an old wives tale… Always get married on the upswing of the clock. like 5:30 etc where hand of the clock is going up. It’s good luck.
As a math teacher, here are my two math trivia tidbits:
1. April is Math Awareness Month. This year’s theme is math and voting. I could go on more, but I’ll just say check out more info at http://mathaware.org
2. March 14th is Pi day (as in the funny Greek symbol that I can’t make here). Why? Because the date is 3/14 and pi is approximately equal to 3.14
This was so much fun! Crystal B. is the winner of the random drawing!! But my favorite piece of trivia is that tomorrow is Pi day… so I’ll have to send Michelle B. a small prize as well.
I’ll have to do this again soon, ’cause I loved all the answers!
Crystal and Michelle, if you’ll send me your addresses to jesm13@aol.com, I’ll mail your prizes.
Thanks,
Janice
Oh wow! Cool, thanks, Janice:) I’m glad my math trivia caught your eye! Off to send the email…
And Happy Pi Day:)
Thank you so much Janice. I sent you an email.