Page 18 - The 'X' Zone Book of Triviology

o More than half of Americans say they regularly watch TV while eating dinner. o The largest fossilized dinosaur turd ever found measure 22” x 8” x 7.5” o The Elvis Presley hit “Hound Dog” was written in about ten minutes. o President Dwight Eisenhower helped popularize Izod alligator shirts. o Texas-born President Lyndon Johnson inspired a boom in cowboy hats. o Brain cells are the only human cells that don’t reproduce. o Eagles can’t hunt when it’s raining. o The rear right tire on your car will wear out before the others do. o A horse expends more energy lying down than it does standing up. o Female spiders spin better webs than males do. o Among other things, ancient Egyptian embalmers preserved mummies with cinnamon. o Only 1% of people suffering from night blindness are females. o Both foxes and bees both pollinate plants. o The world’s oceans have risen an average of 6 inches in the past 100 years. o The right whale’s eyeball is about as big as an orange. o A selenologist is someone who studies the moon. o You can’t get athlete’s foot if you never wear shoes. o Diamonds have been worth more than pearls for only about a century. o It takes about 2 ½ gallons of oil to make a car tire. o The first golf course to have 18 holes was St. Andrews in Scotland, in 1764. o The word alligator comes from el lagarto - Spanish for “the lizard.” o First two kitchen utensils: the ladle and the apple corer, in that order. o There are 1,000 barbs in a single porcupine quill. o Earthworms have five hearts. o Einstein couldn’t read until the age of nine. o Artichokes are flowers. o If an octopus is hungry, it will eat its own arms. o A puwo is an animal that’s a cross between a poodle and a wolf. o Abe Lincoln’s favorite sport was wrestling. o Boris Yeltsin’s favorite Elvis song: “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” o It takes an estimated 2,893 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Toll pop. o Central Park, in New York City, is almost twice as big as Monaco. o There are an estimated 28 million Jennifers in the United States. o President Clinton’s favorite movie: High Noon. o A third of the population of Sweden immigrated to the United States in the 1800s. o Watches get their name because they were originally worn by night watchmen. o About three-quarters of American adults wear some kind of fragrance. o The most common word spoken by a dying person is “Mother” or “Mommy.” o About 4% of Americans are vegetarians. o Abraham Lincoln hated being called “Abe.” o Bears don’t hibernate in caves. They hollow out stumps or logs. o 12% of Americans think they’ve seen UFOs. o From age 5 to age 15, and American kid will see about 13,500 people killed on TV. o If you ate Frosted Flakes as a kid, there a 50% chance that you’re still eating them. o About half the pigs in the world live on farms in China.