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[Shailesh Salian at DXBNOTES <IMCEACCMAIL-Shailesh+20Salian+20at+20DXBNOTES@mcdermott.com>]

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   TRIVIA
   
   The first thermometers wasn't much different than todays, though they
   were filled with brandy instead of mercury.

   Stinkbugs stink because like the skunk, smeel is it's only real defense!

   The bristlecone pines of northern California are the oldest living
   things on the planet, with some at around 4800 years old! Said trees
   were alive even before Moses got the 10 big ones!

   Julius Ceaesar offered rewards Romans who had lots of children.
   Childless women were forbidden from riding in litters, and from wearing
   jewelry.

   On it's surface, the sun is about 7,640 degrees F. In it's interior it
   can get as hot as 18,000,000 degrees F!

   How fast are you traveling right now? It's all relative. If you're
   sitting, you're still in motion. The earth spins at about 1000 miles an
   hour, and flies around the sun at about 66,641 miles an hour. That's in
   addition to the rate of speed the solar system is traveling inside this
   arm of the milky way, and in addition to the speed in which the Milky
   Way is traveling. Have you ever seen one of those pictures that show
   hundreds and hundred of other galaxies, all in one frame? There are
   millions of
   galaxies, some similar to ours, some totally different! And all of them
   are moving at incredible speeds, away from the point where EVERYTHING
   came from- the "Big Bang".

   Your blood needs iron to do it's job of transporting oxygen. But where
did
   that iron come from? Billions of years ago, the iron in your blood, and
   all iron for that matter, was the element "Cobalt". The cobalt was
   probably in a large star that went supernova-death by explosion. The
   cobalt spread around, and deteriorated, forming Iron. This took millions
   of years, as cobalt has a fairly long half life. So you see...we are ALL
   "Children of the Stars"!

   If the sun suddenly burnt out, it would be 7+ minutes before we'd know
it.

   90 years ago it wasn't un-common in the US to see, or even have a
   windmill in your yard powering an electrical generator. They could
   generate current in wind speeds as low as 6 mph.

   The recreational vehicle industry reported retail sales of 1 billion
   dollars in 1969. Today it's a 12 billion dollar industry, with 1 in 10
   families owning a motor home or travel trailer. Motor homes were
   invented by the English!

   The first transmitted television pictures occurred in 1925. It was to
   Scottish engineer J.L. Baird's early TV that pictures of a face
   wrinkling and smiling was transmitted from one room and viewed in
   another. TV broadcasts began in Germany in 1935, and in the US in 1939.

   The VCR was unveiled in 1970. Video existed before that, but the
   machines were all reel to reel, with the first recorder coming from sony
   in 1964.

   The only bones in a womans body that are mirror images of one another
   are her jawbones.

   Mercury is a metal, but it has a really loe "melting" point. It is the
   only metal that is liquid at room temperature.

   The only primate to lack skin pigment in the palms of it's hands is the
   human!

   Direct Current electricity only flows in one direction.

   Only one sunstance exists on earth in all three of it's forms, as a
   solid, as a liquid, and as a vapor: Water!

   The banjo is the only musical instument native to, or invented in the US.

   Stella Walsh, female Olympic gold medal winning track star of 1932, was
   really a man.

   The 1976 summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada was the first time that a
   country that hosted an Olympics failed to win even 1 gold medal!

   Lincoln is on the US 5 dollar bill 3 times, and on the US penny twice. On
   the bill you'll find his picture on the front, the name "Lincoln" below
   his pic, and a statue of him on the back of the bill sitting inside the
   Lincoln Memorial between the middle columns. On the penny there's just
   his picture, and his statue in the memorial on the back.

   Though Henry Ford used the assembly line process for building his cars in
   great numbers, the assembly line process had been pioneered and used by
   Eli Whitney in 1798 to build muskets for the US goverment.

   The falling apple that got Newton going on his pursuit of gravity did not
   hit him on the head. He did see an apple fall though, and in the
   background hung the crescent moon. He wondered if the force that caused
   the apple to fall downward was the same force that held the moon where
   it was. The rest is "history."

   The entire Encyclopedia Britannica is banned in Texas because it contains
   a formula for making beer at home.

   Stars and suns in our galaxy, as well as neighboring galaxied have
   planets that circle them, and one day life might be found on one or more
   of these planets. That's pretty much accepted scientifically today. In
   1450 A.D. a German archbishop named Nicholas of Cusa stated the same
   thing. People thought he was nuts.

   Xenophanes, a Greek philosopher found seashells atop a mountain. He
   reasoned that since the shells were there, said mountain had been under
   water at some time in the past. His equals thout him a lunatic. 23
   centuries later he was proven right.

   sed for tha satallite as it could withstand the heat of orbit.

   H.G. Wells pretty much named the atomic bomb the atomic bomb. The name
   was coined in a stort he wrote in 1914 titles "The World Set Free."



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