- Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.
- There are 86,400 seconds in day.
- Every time you lick a stamp you gain 1/10 of a calorie.
- Hershey’s Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it’s kissing the conveyor belt.
- If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050.
- Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
- Great Britain was the first county to issue postage stamps. Hence, the postage stamps of Britain are the only stamps in the world not to bear the name of the country of origin.
- The first hard drive available for the Apple had a capacity of 5 megabytes.
- Every minute in the U.S 6 people turn 17.
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wow! didn’t know any of these things before reading your list but the first one somehow makes me laugh
So on number 1, I’m thinking that’s mainly b/c men are more likely to be out there chasing storms and whatnot?
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ok, number one…what the heck. I always want a man to protect me from lightning, and here I am tempting fate by doing this! What…the heck?
i have read them before somewhere, but seriously i didnt knew about maine being the toothpick capital of the world, and that when u lick a stamp…..
thanx for all the wonderful trivia’s. hope you’ll post more in the future
JWP
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i have read them before somewhere, but seriously i didnt knew about maine being the toothpick capital of the world, and that when u lick a stamp…..
thanx for all the wonderful trivia’s. hope you’ll post more in the future
JWP
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I challenge you to a game of trivia! Click here to battle against me online at ConQUIZtador. Let’s see who’s the winner…
https://www.conquiztador.com/?a=26041