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Trivia
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gems of trivia areperfect for impressingyour friends,
sharing when conversation gets awkward, or simply
carrying around in your mind so you can come top in
the pub quiz. Read on and be enlightened.
• Camels have three eyelids to protect their eyes from the blowing sand in the
desert.
• The fingerprints of koala are so similar to those of humans that they would
be indistinguishable at a crime scene.
• There are more lifeforms living on your body than there are people in the
whole world.
• Leonardo da Vinci was ambidextrous – he could draw with both hands at
the same time.
• The longest traffic jam ever recorded lasted for 10 days.
• All the clocks in the movie
Pulp Fiction
are stuck at 4.20.
• France last executed someone by guillotine in 1977.
• The M&M on M&Ms stand for Mars and Murrie, two chocolate makers that
teamed up in the US to create a version of the chocolate pellets that the
Spanish were eating.
• The world’s largest handmade carpet was made in Iran in 2007 for a mosque.
It is large enough to cover a football pitch.
• Harry Potter author JK Rowling is the first person to become a billionaire (in
US dollars) solely by writing books.
• Around 10% of the world’s bird species live in Thailand.
• Sharks can go through more than 30,000 teeth in a lifetime.
• In Michigan, US, a woman’s hair belongs to her husband.
• If you walked nonstop at an average pace, it would take you 347 days to
walk around the world.
• The large intestine is actually shorter than the small intestine but it is more
spacious.
• Women who are over 40 when they have their baby are more likely to have
a left-handed child than a woman in her 20s.
• There are 96 words in Sanskrit for love.
• You can’t work in Antarctica unless you have your appendix removed – if this
seemingly-useless organ was to burst while you were there, you wouldn’t
be able to get to a hospital quick enough.