Trivia

Did you know that:

Antarctica is the only continent without reptiles or snakes.

Hawaii is the only US state that grows coffee.

Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.

Libra, the Scales, is the only inanimate symbol in the zodiac. (I am a libra, who wants to be an animal or a plant??)

Swans are the only birds with penises.

In 1945 a computer at Harvard malfunctioned and Grace Hopper, who was working on the computer, investigated, found a moth in one of the circuits and removed it. Ever since, when something goes wrong with a computer, it is said to have a bug in it.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.

The "O" when used as a prefix in Irish surnames means "descendant of."

The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is "and the rest of the day to yourself."

The phrase "sleep tight" originated when mattresses were set upon ropes woven through the bed frame. To remedy sagging ropes, one would use a bed key to tighten the rope.

There are roughly 6,500 spoken languages in the world today. However, about 2,000 of those languages have fewer than 1,000 speakers. The most widely spoken language in the world is Mandarin Chinese. There are 885,000,000 people in China that speak that language.


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