More Trivia Atbp.

...at mga iba pang trivia...

The “french” in french fries actually describes the way the spuds are sliced, not their country of origin. (ah, ok)

One cup of cooked sweet potatoes provides 30 mg (50,000 IU) of Beta-Carotene (Vitamin A). It would take 23 cups of broccoli to provide the same amount. (ano daw?!)

The dot on top of the letter "i" is called a "tittle." Tittle is Latin for something very small. (ang liit naman ng tittle mo...)

Strawberries have more Vitamin-C compared to oranges. (go baguio!)

Pandan leaves or a Pandan plant is a useful repellant for pests such as cockroaches. Just put the leaves or the plant in a place where cockroaches lurk around. (at pagkatapos gamitin mo sa sinaing!)

In Microsoft Windows operating systems you cannot create a folder named "con" (without the ""). (wow, totoo ah!)

12% of Americans think that Noah's Ark and Joan of Arc are related.

The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called "aglets."

A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.

WD-40 literally stands for water displacement 40th attempt. That's the name straight out of the lab book used by the chemist who helped develop WD-40 back in 1953. Norm Larsen, was attempting to concoct a formula to prevent corrosion, a task which is done by displacing water. Norm's persistence paid off when he perfected the formula for WD-40 on his 40th try.

A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.

A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.

A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.

Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies. (plus osteoporosis)

Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.

Most men have erections every hour to hour and a half during sleep. (un, flag ceremony...)

On average, women say 7,000 words per day. Men manage just over 2000. (blah, blah, blah)

Land crabs found in Cuba can run faster than a horse. (matignan nga sa dividendaso)

2 out of 200 people we see each day are ghosts. (puuteek! meh ganon?!)

Bald men actually have a stronger sex drive than their non-balding counterparts. Balding is influenced by high levels of testosterone, which is also responsible for the sex drive. (sex machine na taong roll-on?)

Dogs sweat through their tongue.

The two lines that connect your top lip to the bottom of your nose are known as the philtrum.

Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day. (hahaha! 300x)