Tuesday Trivia

Miscellaneous trivia with absolutely no rhyme or reason as to how aI chose it for today. I feel no rhyme or reason myself!! Yep, I'm random today. :D

• Ants never sleep.
• Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum.
• The parachute was invented by DiVinci in 1515.
• Betty Boop was originally designed as a dog
• Most of Disney's Atlantis characters were designed from an anime comic book called Nadia, though they adamantly deny it. Check it out!
• the new U2 song "Walk On" was written for Michael Hutchince, lead singer of INXS, who accidentally killed himself while performing auto-erotic asphyxiation(maybe) a few years ago
• snake antivenom is made of horse's blood
• If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
• No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, month, and purple.
• Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
• The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."
• The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
• The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
• Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
• Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice."
• In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."
• Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
• More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
• A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
• Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
• Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
• Dec 17, 1989: Bartholomew J. Simpson's birthday.
• See! Pokemon IS evil!: Dec 17 1997 "Pokemon", an anime program geared towards youngsters on Japanese television, induced seizures in at least 750 children througout Japan. The offending scene was a "vaccine bomb" followed by red flashing in the eyes of a rat being. Of those affected, 200 were still in the hospital with quasi-epileptic seizures a full day after the broadcast.
• Peanuts are not nuts, they're legumes.
• The most popular nut in the world is the almond.
• The average human eye can distinguish about 500 different shades of gray.
  
• The word bell comes from the Anglo-Saxon word bellan, meaning "to roar" or "to bellow."
  
• The bagpipe is mentioned in the Bible, and historians believe that it originated in Sumaria.
• A "Blue Moon" is the second full moon in a calendar month (it is rarely blue).
  
• About half of all Americans are on a diet on any given day.