TRIVIAS:
Science Trivia
Did you know that... if all major forms of cardiovascular disease were eliminated, human life expectance would increase by 9.78 years.
SOURCE: National Center for Health Statistics
Did you know that... a new survey of pillow primping practices indicates that 23% of people consider themselves stackers; 20% plumpers; 16% are rollers; 16% cuddlers; while the reminder are smashers and crunchers.
SOURCE: Survey by DuPont Co.
Did you know that... treatment-resistant tuberculosis has been reported in 42 states and Washington, D.C., up from 13 states during the tuberculosis epidemic of the late 1980s and early 1990s.
SOURCE: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Did you know that... the world record for passing gas was set on Japanese television,
3,000 times in a row
SOURCE: Grossology: The science of Really Gross Things
Did you know that... the typical American child watches 1,680 minutes of television per week (about two months a year). The same youth spends 38 minutes a week in meaningful conversation with his or her parents.
SOURCE: A.C. Nielson Co.
Did you know that... a cricket's ears are on its knees? That a fly has tastebuds on its feet.
SOURCE: Nature Museum of the Chicago Academy of Sciences
Did you know that... Mexico City is sinking at a rate of 18 inches per year as a result of draining the water table for human consumption.
SOURCE: National Water Commission
Did you know that... there are 206 bones in the adult human body and there are 300 in children (as they grow some of the bones fuse together).
Did you know that... Flea's can jump 130 times higher than their own height. In human terms this is equal to a 6ft. person jumping 780 ft. into the air.
Did you know that... the most dangerous animal in the world is the common housefly. Because of their habits of visiting animal waste, they transmit more diseases than any other animal.
Did you know that... snakes are true carnivorous because they eat nothing but other animals. They do not eat any type of plant material.
Did you know that... the world's largest amphibian is the giant salamander. It can grow up to 5 ft. in length.
-(SOURCE: http://www.hightechscience.org/funfacts.htm)-
Math Trivia
Did you know that... the two long parallel lines(=) as a symbol for
equality was introduced by Robert Recorde in 1557!
Did you know that... Isaac Newton while a student at age 22, invented
differential and integral calculus, discovered the law of universal
gravitation, formulated the three laws of motion, developed the new
theory of flight in just 18 months and set a record of the most
productive periods of achievement by an individual in the history
of science!
Did you know that... 16th century Italian mathematician and physician
Gerolamo Cardano, was first to introduce the concepts of probability
and define it as the number of favorable outcomes divided by the number
of possible outcomes. Because of this, he is regarded as the
"Father of the Theory of Probability."
Did you know that... the eminent German mathematician, Carl Freidrich Gauss'
father was an accountant and young Gauss corrected his father's spreadsheet
at the age of 3!
Did you know that... the symbols + and - for plus and minus respectively
were introduced by German mathematician and astronomer, Johannes Regiomontanus
in 1456!
Did you know that... the pascal's triangle which is used to determine the
coefficient of a binomial expansion was named after the French mathematician'
philosopher and physicist Blaise Pascal but did not claim recognition for the
discovery because such triangle was first introduced by a Chinese mathematician,
Chu Shihchieh in 1303!
Did you know that... Pythagoras was first to connect mathematics and music.
In fact, he is credited with discovering octave and the fifth
interval of a note!
Did you know that... the most proved theorem in Mathematics is the Pythagorean
Theorem which has more than 370 different proofs! All the 370 different proofs
are found in the book entitled "The Pythagorean Preposition" which was published
in 1940.
Did you know that... the fame and influence of Pythagoras spans for centuries!
Pythagoras even appears in Shakespear's Merchant of Venice, when reference is
made to the society's belief in the transmigration of souls.
-(SOURCE: http://mathtinik.blogspot.com/2009/06/math-tribia.html)-
English Trivia
Did you know that... the longest one-syllable word in the English
language is “screeched.”
Did you know that... “dreamt” is the only English word that ends
in the letters “mt”.
Did you know that... no word in English language rhymes with
“month,” “silver,” “purple,” or “orange.”
Did you know that... the symbol on the “pound” key (#) is called
an octothorpe.
Did you know that... the symbol used in many URLs (Web addresses)
is called a tilde. (~)
Did you know that... the dot over the letter ‘i’ is called a tittle.
Did you know that... the word “set” has more definitions than any
other word in English.
Did you know that... “underground” is the only word in English that
begins and ends with the letters “und.”
Did you know that... there are only four words in the English language
which end in “-dous”: tremendous, horrendous,
stupendous, and hazardous.
Did you know that... the longest word in the English language,
according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
Did you know that... the only other word with the same amount of
letters is its plural:
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses.
Did you know that... the longest place-name still in use is
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwe-nuakit natahu,
the Maori name of a hill in New Zealand.
Did you know that... Los Angeles’s full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra
Senora la Reinade los Angeles de Porciuncula” and
can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, L.A.
Did you know that... the verb “cleave” has definitions which are
antonyms of each other: to adhere and to separate.
Did you know that... the verb “sanction” also has definitions which
are antonyms: to sponsor and to ban.
Did you know that... a pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
Did you know that... there is a seven-letter word in English that
contains eleven words without rearranging any of its
letters, “therein”: the, there, he, in, rein, her,
here, ere, I, therein, herein.
Did you know that... ‘Stewardesses’ is the longest English word that
is typed with only the left hand.
Did you know that... the combination “ough” can be pronounced in nine
different ways; the following sentence contains them
all: “A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman
strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling
into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.”
Did you know that... the only 15 letter word that can be spelled without
repeating a letter is “uncopyrightable.”
Did you know that... “Facetious” and “abstemious” contain all the vowels in
the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning “containing
arsenic.”
Did you know that... the word “Checkmate” in chess comes from the Persian
phrase “Shah Mat,” which means “the king is dead.”
Did you know that... only three words have entered English from Czech:
polka, pilsner, and robot.
-(SOURCE: http://englishstudyforvms.wordpress.com/2007/05/26/english-trivia/)-
