Trivia You Can't Live Without

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Roulette was invented by French mathematician

Blaise Pascal. The popular game of chance was a byproduct of his experiments with perpetual motion.

All cheerleaders were male in 1898. Now, about three percent are.

The baseball home plate is 17 inches wide.

Moderate dancing burns 250 to 300 calories an hour.

The U.S. motto, E pluribus unum, means "out of many, one." It first appeared in a Roman poem as part of a recipe for making a salad.

In Latin, the word "disco" means "I learn."

Forty-two percent of American women are able to belch on command.

In scientific terminology, the Sun is considered a "Yellow G2 Dwarf."

The saying "the sky's the limit" originated in Don Quixote.

Because of outrageously high costs in California during the Gold Rush of 1849, miners sent their laundry to Hawaii for washing and pressing.

Two-thirds of the world's lawyers practice in the United States.

A cow has four stomachs: the rumen, reticulum, omasum and abomasum.

Before the year 1000, the word "she" did not exist in the English language.

A group of moles is called a "labor."

"Dacryphilia" is arousal from seeing tears in the eyes of a partner.

Mosquitoes hibernate.

The base salary for a NASA astronaut is $50,000 per year.

The "number of the beast" mentioned in the Bible's book of Revelation, 666, was actually a mathematical representation of the name Caesar Nero.

Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill.

The skeleton of an average 160-pound body weighs about 29 pounds.

Football was the first team sport added to the Olympics. That was in 1900.

The blood of a honeybee never clots.

An "undecennial" is an 11th anniversary.

Without the benefit of modern instruments, Eratosthenes measured the radius of Earth in the third century B.C. His calculations were within one percent of the measurement determined by today's technology.

The highest lifetime yield of milk for a single cow is 465,224 pounds.

The sound produced by the high notes of a bagpipe is called a "skirl."

During the 5,000 years of recorded human history, polygamy has been much more common than monogamy.
Former President Jimmy Carter discovered a new proof for the Pythagorean Theorem.

The animal with the largest brain in proportion to its size is the ant.

Thirty-five percent of Americans feel a "unibrow" is a turn-off.

In Japan, you can rent a dog as a companion for $20 an hour.

The chair was invented in about 2,500 BC

"Anasteemaphilia" is an attraction to a person because of a difference in height.

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Thirty-five percent of Americans feel a "unibrow" is a turn-off.

Only 35%? That's just wrong.