Trivia
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The Italian city of Verona, where Shakespeare's lovers Romeo and Juliet lived, receives about 1,000 letters addressed to Juliet every Valentine's Day.
Basketball traces its roots to a game that was played in ancient Central America's Inca cities. The game — throwing a goat's head into a hole in a wall — often went scoreless for days. The winners were granted riches and lives of luxury. The losers were decapitated.
undergradNITZ said:
Talk about getting 'ahead' in a game!
Gambrinous is an obscure word meaning "being full of beer."
The expression "three dog night" originated with the Eskimos and means a very cold night - so cold that you have to bed down with three dogs to keep warm.
(I hope it never gets colder than a "two dog night" in my house or I'll be stealing my neighbours dog)
(I hope it never gets colder than a "two dog night" in my house or I'll be stealing my neighbours dog)
When your midle finger is longer then your index finger you have manly hands...
When your index finger is longer then your middle finger you have feminine hands...
When your index finger is longer then your middle finger you have feminine hands...
Biologically, bumble bees technically shouldn't be able to fly. They are too heavy for how small their wings are.
At the age of 21, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking was given just two years to live. On January 8, 2003, he turned 61.
The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.
http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~timm/dm/bumblebee.html#the bumblebee bat
http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~timm/dm/bumblebee.html#the bumblebee bat