Trivia For You Monday November 10, 2008 |
The average male adult can bench-press 88 percent of his body weight, having 70 to 80 pounds of muscle. |
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A mature, well-established termite colony with as many as 60,000 members will eat only about one-fifth of an ounce of wood a day. |
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The color of the blood of an octopus is bluish-green. |
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The Penny is the only coin currently minted in the United States with a profile that faces to the right. All other coins – the silver dollar, half dollar, quarter, dime, and nickel -- all feature profiles that face to the left. |
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Before anybody called it "yo-yo" (meaning "come back" or "return" in the native language of the Philippines, Tagalog), it was popular in seventeenth- through nineteenth-century Europe under many names, including "quiz," "bandalore," "l'emigrette," "coblentz," and "incroyable." It was called "disk" by the ancient Greeks. |
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