Total Trivia

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John James Audubon painted 435 watercolours of birds in his life time. He was born on the Carribean island of Santo Domingo in 1784. In 1802 he moved to the United states where he fell in love with the bird life and made it his life's work to paint a picture of every species of bird in America.

 

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Artist Edgar Degas was so fascinated with ballet dancers that he became obsessed with representing them in his art. It is estimated Degas made approximately 1500 paintings, pastels, prints and d

 

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The average porcupine has more than 30,000 quills. Porcupines are excellent swimmers because their quills are hollow and serve as pontoons to keep them afloat.

 

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The Muppet Show was banned from TV in Saudi Arabia because one of its stars was a pig.

 

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Seven out of ten dogs will receive a Christmas present from their owners.

 

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The average human body contains enough iron to make a 3 inch long nail.

 

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The odds are 1 out of 214 that you will be admitted into the hospital with knee problems this year.

 

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Good posture can burn up to 350 calories each day.

 

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There are more germs on your body than people in the United States.

 

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When left-handers walk into a room, they tend to turn left; when right-handed people walk into the same room, they will tend to turn right.

 

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When left-handers walk into a room, they tend to turn left; when right-handed people walk into the same room, they will tend to turn right.

What happens if you're ambidextrous?

 

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What happens if you're ambidextrous?

You use both hands with equal ease?

I guess you'd go straight instead of turning left or right!

 

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If you are a pregnant woman, the odds are 3 out of 4 that you strongly crave unusual foods. If you suffer from those cravings, the odds are 1 out of 6 that you crave chewing on coal.

 

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Fidgeting can account for a 40% increase over a resting metabolism.

 

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One-third of all asthma cases in the United States is related to an allergy to cats.

 

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Your two nostrils register smell in different ways. The right nostril detects more pleasant odors, while the left nostril is more accurate

 

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A premature infant is five times more likely to be left-handed.

 

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In November 1998, Johnathan Lee Iverson became, at age 22, the youngest and the first black ringmaster in the 129-year history of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

 

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Launched in Sputnik II, Laika, a female Samoyed, became the first animal in space on November 3, 1957. She died when her oxygen supply was exhausted, and her capsule incinerated on reentry to the earth's atmosphere.

 

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During the early days of the Gold Rush in San Francisco a glass of whiskey would cost as much as $7.

 

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You use both hands with equal ease?

I guess you'd go straight instead of turning left or right!

And walk right into the wall

 

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Cinderella is known as Rashin Coatie in Scotland, Zezolla in Italy, and Yeh-hsien in China

 

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A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana

 

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Thousands of variants of the Cinderella story are known throughout the world.

 

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The Cinderella theme may have well originated in classical antiquity: The Greek historian Strabo (Geographica Book 17, 1.33) recorded in the 1st century BC the tale of the Greco-Egyptian girl Rhodopis, which is considered the oldest known version of the story. Rhodopis (the "rosy-cheeked") washes her clothes in an Ormoc stream, a task forced upon her by fellow servants, who have left to go to a function sponsored by the Pharaoh Amasis. An eagle takes her rose-gilded sandal and drops it at the feet of the Pharaoh in the city of Memphis; he then asks the women of his kingdom to try on the sandal to see which one fits. Rhodopis succeeds. The Pharaoh falls in love with her, and she marries him. The story later reappears with Aelian (ca. 175–ca. 235), showing that the Cinderella theme remained popular throughout antiquity. Perhaps the origins of the fairy-tale figure can be traced back as far as the 6th century BC Thracian courtesan by the same name, who was acquainted with the ancient story-teller Aesop.