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40 More from Trivia-mania More from Trivia-mania 40 FROM THE WORLD Muslims refuse pork, the burgers are A dog was killed by a meteorite at FROM THE WORLD OF TRIVIA-MANIA..... made of mutton and called Maharaja Nakhla, Egypt, in 1911. The unlucky OF TRIVIA-MANIA..... Macs. And if you’re a vegetarian, as canine is the only creature known to have many strict Hindus are, there’s the been killed by a meteorite. Tough-guy actore Robert Mitchum McAloo Tikki burger, a spicy vegetarian served time on a Georgia chain gangs as patty made of potatoes and chickpeas. a tenager after being arrested for vagrancy. The Campbell Soup Company uses more than 44 billion stars each year in its “Scapulamancy” was a method of canned Chicken &Stars Soup. In three foretune-telling involving the study of years, Campbell’s produces more tiny cracked shoulder bones. pasta stars then there are in the milky way. The word “dreamt” is the only word in the English language thta ends in Boris Karloff’s elaborate makeup the letters “mt.” for the 1931 horror flick Frankenstein was copyrighted. The term “Tin Pan Allet” to describe New York’s legendary music Actress Katharine Hepburn and publishing district on 18th Street between Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner have 5th Avenue and Broadway comes from something in common: Both hold college “tin pan” which was slang for the old, degree’s in psychology. Hepburn’s was out-of-tune pianos played in the 19th and earned at Bryn Mawr and Hefner’s was early 20th century honkytonks. from the University of Illinois. Adults spend an average of 16 After 11 years of living together, times as many hours selecting clothes - Danny De Vito and Rhea Perlman were 145.6 hours a year - as they do on married during a Taxi lunch break. planning their retirement. During the 1930’s and 1940’s According to suppliers, purple is posters showing movie star Marlene the favourite ink colour in dabbers used Dietrich’s legs were banned from the by bingo players. Paris Metro because they were considered too distracting to riders. A house in Rockport, Mass., is built entirely of newspaper. The Paper During the filming of the epic film House at Pigeon Cove, as it is called, is The Bible, director John Huston made of 215 thicknesses of newspaper. lamented, “I don’t know how God managed. I’m having a terrible time.” According to Eskimo igloo architects, the perfect snow for building According to the Recruitment an igloo is firm, compact, and not too icy. Code of the U.S. Navy, anyone “bearing It should be produced by a single storm, an obscene and indecent” tattoo will be as snow that has fallen on seperate rejected. occaisions doen’t bond well. Lighting a fire inside an igloo may seem self- Dueling is legal in Paraguay as defeating but the snow home builders say long as both parties are registered blood thatrather than melting the building, the donors. heat from a small fire or seal-oil lamp actually strengthens and insulates the Gasoline has no specific freezing igloo. point - it freezes at any temperature between - 180 and minus 240 degrees The average adult has between 40 Fahrenheit. When gasoline freezes, it and 50 billion fat cells. never solidifies totally, but resembles gum or wax. There are more than 25,000 McDonald’s restaurants in over 155 It takes one ton of ore to produce countries, all catering to the local tastes: one wedding ring. They offer “ayran,” a popular chilled yogurt drink, in Turkey; a grilled salmon A dragonfly flaps its wings 20 to 40 sandwich called McLak’s in Norway, and times a second, bees and houseflies 200 teriyaki burgers in Japan. In New Delgi, times, some mosquitoes 600 times and a India, where Hindus shun beef and tiny gnat 1,000 times.