Mountain Oak Vapors - TRIVIA CONTEST!!!

[Uncle]

In a hot climate, you can sweat as much as 3 gallons of water a day.

 

[spacekitty]

The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

 

[lettucehead]

Ten per cent of the salt mined in the world each year is used to de-ice the roads in America.

 

[Shannon65]

Porcupines float in water!

 

[lettucehead]

The air we breathe is 78% nitrogen, 21.5% oxygen, .5% argon and other gases.

 

[spacekitty]

Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.

 

[lettucehead]

The Chinese were using aluminum to make things as early as 300 AD Western civilization didn't rediscover aluminum until 1827.

 

[basementcat]

In Erwin Tennessee an elephant was once hanged for murder

 

[morri]

The botanical name of the chocolate plant is Theobramba cacao, which means "Food of the Gods."

Irish women are smart!

 

[lettucehead]

The largest gold nugget ever found weighed 172 lbs., 13 oz.

 

[Uncle]

The largest internal organ is the small intestine. Despite being called the smaller of the two intestines, your small intestine is actually four times as long as the average adult is tall.

* * * ** * Now That's Just C r A P p Y . . .

 

[lettucehead]

The largest hailstone ever recorded was 17.5 inches in diameter - bigger than a basketball.

 

[basementcat]

Almost 100 people choke to death each year on ball point pens

 

[thehangdude]

Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with the hands.

That is on thing I would like to be able to prove!

 

[lettucehead]

The most abundant metal in the Earth's crust is aluminum.

 

[lettucehead]

The only rock that floats in water is pumice.

 

[kritter]

There are about 100,000 to 150,000 hairs on an average person’s head.

I got about ten

 

[lettucehead]

The United States government keeps its supply of silver at the US Military Academy at West Point, NY.

 

[lettucehead]

Acupuncture was first used as a medical treatment in 2700 BC by Chinese emperor Shen-Nung.

 

[basementcat]

A human head remains conscience for 15-20 seconds after decapitatiin