Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Trivia

  • One in 10 Europeans is allegedly conceived in an Ikea bed.
  • A couple in US is also referred to as an 'item'. In Mumbai, India it refers to a hot girl
  • "Restaurant" is the most mis-spelled word in search engines.
  • Cyclist Lance Armstrong's heart is almost a third larger than the average man's.
  • You're 10 times more likely to be bitten by a human than a rat.
  • The Pyruvate Scale measures pungency in onions and garlic. It's named after the acid in onions which makes cooks cry when cutting them.
  • The hotter it is, the more difficult it is for aeroplanes to take off. Air passengers in Nevada, where temperatures have reached 120F, have been told they can't fly.
  • Giant squid eat each other - especially during sex.
  • First-born children are less creative but more stable, while last-born are more promiscuous, says US research.
  • Pulling your foot out of quicksand takes a force equivalent to that needed to lift a medium-sized car.
  • The city of Rome has more wild cats per square mile than any other city in the world.
  • The number of births in India each year is greater than the entire population of Australia.
  • There is a city called Rome on every continent of the world.

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