Messing about with empathy
Welcome to Day 13 of my July trivia posts.* Trivia: A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. This is true, but why does a dime have ridges at all? Mental Floss has a great article about this question. When American coins were first minted, they were made with real silver and other precious metals.…
Welcome to Day 12 of my July trivia posts.* Trivia: The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid. Have you ever been to Niagara Falls? It is a remarkable natural feature. What we call Niagara Falls is actually three waterfalls that fall sixteen feet along the Niagara River. American Falls…
Welcome to Day 11 of my July trivia posts.* Trivia: Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. This is true, but as always, there is more to this simple fact since other animals also have skin that is colored. Zebras have black skin, but it is not striped. Polar bears also have black skin,…
Welcome to Day 10 of my July trivia posts.* Trivia: The sentence: “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter of the alphabet. This is true. But it barely scratches the surface. A sentence that uses all twenty-six letters is a pangram. The holy grail of pangrams is a sentence that…
Welcome to Day 9 of my July trivia posts.* Trivia: Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10. Google can not answer all questions. I researched how many vocal sounds dogs and cats make, and all the websites listed were sites that got this fact from other factoid sites. None of…
Welcome to Day 8 of my July Trivia posts.* Trivia: Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. This is NOT TRUE. I should end the post there. If you google “Who invented scissors?” the first answer is Leonardo Da Vinci. But if you click on the link, it says scissors were invented in Rome in AD…
Welcome to Day 7 of my July Trivia posts.* Trivia: “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt.” This is true. All the words that end in “mt” are a variation of dreamt, such as undreamt and daydreamt. Dreamt is a British English word that, while seen occasionally in the American…
Welcome to Day 6 of my July Trivia posts.* Trivia: A snail can sleep for three years. This trivia is true, but the details are more interesting than just the fact. First of all, mattress websites really care how long snails sleep. Apparently, they are encouraging humans to sleep like a snail (and possibly cure…
Welcome to Day 5 of my July Trivia posts.* Trivia: There are more chickens than people in the world. Obviously, this is true (at least I hope so.) The question is, how many people and how many chickens are there. There are approximately 7,789,140,550 people on the planet (that number has gone up since I…
Welcome to Day 4 of my July trivia posts.* Trivia: All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill. Happy Independence Day! I’d like to have independence from blatantly wrong trivia. I didn’t even have to google this one (but I did.) I looked at the…