Do You or Did You Know?

Let's start off with a Sunday football question.

TODAY'S TRIVIA



What happens when you:

1) have nothing to do

2) own a sharp knife

3) have a large lime

4) own a patient cat

5) drink too much tequila

6) and it's football season?



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High-tech questions and answers:

Q. How many bits are in a byte?

A. There are eight bits in a byte.


Q. How quickly do hummingbirds beat their wings?

A. These tiny birds flap their wings 50 to 200 times a second.


Q. How loud are New York City subways?

A. On the platform, the average noise level was 94 decibels. A chainsaw measures in at 100 decibels.




Useless but interesting facts:

Hummingbirds are the smallest birds - so tiny that one of their enemies is an insect, the praying mantis.

A 1,200-pound horse eats about seven times its own weight each year.

A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

A Holstein cow's spots are like a fingerprint or snowflake. No two cows have exactly the same pattern of spots.

A zebra is white with black stripes.

A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.

Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.

Every year, $1.5 billion is spent on pet food. This is four times the amount spent on baby food.

German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.

The first coin minted in the United States was a silver dollar. It was issued on October 15, 1794.

The first US Marines wore high leather collars to protect their necks from sabres, hence the name "leathernecks."

The Hundred Year War actually lasted 116 years (1337 to 1453).

The shortest war on record was fought between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

Americans spend approximately $25 billion each year on beer.

California's Frank Epperson invented the Popsicle in 1905 when he was 11-years-old.

Fortune cookies were invented in 1916 by George Jung, a Los Angeles noodle maker.

In the United States, a pound of potato chips costs two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.

McDonalds and Burger King sugar-coat their fries so they will turn golden-brown.

Christmas became a national holiday in the US in 1890.

In 1947, Toys for Tots started making the holidays a little happier for children by organizing its first Christmas toy drive for needy youngsters.

There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year.



And with that my time's up for today. Peek in again Monday to the blog that brings you more of less!!