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Sunday, January 3, 2016

Trivia of the Day!
(January 4, 2016)

  • In the Victorian era, special teacups were produced to protect the mustache from being inadvertently dipped in tea.
  • Hallmark now produces cards for those whom have been made redundant.
  • On Venus, it snows metal.
  • Dr Dre has made more money from the “Beats” headphones franchise than he made over his entire musical career.
  • Cuba is the only Caribbean Island with a railway
  • 19 of the 25 of the highest peak in the world are in the Himalayas
  • 99% of Glaciers are in the Arctic and Antarctic
  • The 7 largest country in the world take up half of the world’s surface
  • There are 17 active volcanoes in Japan
  • Several building in New York have their own zip code
  • There are no rivers in Saudi Arabia
  • Ethiopia has never been a European colony
  • In 2006, over 2 billion people lived on less than $2 a day
  • The country Brazil was named after the Brazil nut, and not the other way around
  • Spain means “the land of rabbits”
  • Rome was the first city to reach a million people
  • The entire population of the Earth would fit in Texas
  • Fredric Baur invented the Pringles can, and when he died in 2008, his ashes were buried in one
  • Only female mosquitoes bite
  • Captain Morgan rum was named after a Welsh pirate who later became the lieutenant governor of Jamaica
  • The Vatican Bank is the world’s only bank that allows ATM users to perform their transactions in Latin
  • Jacuzzi is a brand name, and the company also produces toilets and mattresses
  • Failed PEZ flavors include coffee, eucalyptus, menthol, and flower


source: https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/trivia-day/


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