Random Tuesday Thoughts – More Truly Random Trivia

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I thought I had discovered the magical code for my transferred feeds to function like they should, but apparently I was wrong.  I spent the entire day yesterday scouring the internet trying to find that magical code to no avail.  I’ll keep looking.  If you were signed up for my feeds via Blogger, you may have to re-subscribe over here in order to be current on my updates.  I would be forever grateful if you did!

Meanwhile, my brain is so fried I wasn’t able to piece together any coherent Random Thoughts, only boring brain-fried ones, so I thought I’d toss out some Random Trivia instead.  Hopefully I’ll find the magic code and be back to blog-hopping which is way more fun.  Enjoy the trivia!

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.

A Boeing 747’s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother’s first flight.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA.”

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

Betsy Ross is the only real person to ever have been the head on a Pez dispenser.

Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

Bill Clinton has been in 3 porno films from the waist down.

It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year’s supply of footballs.

The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

Average life span of a major league baseball: seven pitches.

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

Did you ever wonder what the WD in WD-40 stands for? WD is an abbreviation for Water Displacer.

The Bank of Vernal, in Vernal, Utah (where else?) is the only bank in the world that was built from bricks sent through the mail.  Way back in 1919 the builders realized that it was cheaper to send the bricks through the United States Postal System (seven bricks to a package) than to have them shipped commercially from Salt Lake City.

Marijuana was not illegal in the United States until October 1, 1937, when Congress passed the “Marijuana Tax Act”.  Total debate time on the House of Representatives floor concerning this issue: 90 seconds. This act did not actually ban the substance – it simply said that one could not sell marijuana without a license.  Of course, Congress refused to issue any licenses.  Congress finally banned marijuana outright in 1970.

Everyone knows that spinach is loaded in iron and makes you stronger – just look what it has done for Popeye’s career. Apparently Popeye was wrong.  So were all of those parents that stuffed it down their kids’ throats.  In reality, spinach has no more iron in it than any other vegetable. This spinach misconception dates back to the 1950′s when a food analyst made an error while calculating the iron in spinach. His decimal place was off by one place, suggesting that spinach had ten times as much iron content than it really did.

If you want actual Random Thoughts, head over to Keely’s place for some Random Fun!  I’ll try to have my brain de-fried in time for next week’s Randomness.

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