I Love Trivia!!
I always love to read trivia… I am also sharing it to you before sending it to my trashbox…Wish everyone a very nice Tuesday!!
here they are!! hope you got some infos from it!!
Who can a Dieri marry?
The Dieri tribe in Australia has strict laws regarding who can marry whom. For example, a man can legally marry his mother’s mother’s brother’s daughter’s daughter. He can also marry his mother’s father’s sister’s daughter’s daughter. Go figure!
What saved Teddy Roosevelt from assassination?
While Theodore Roosevelt was campaigning in Milwaukee in 1912, a would-be assassin fired a bullet into the right side of his chest. Much of the force of the slug was absorbed by the President’s eyeglasses case and by the 50 page speech he was carrying double-folded in his breast pocket. Nevertheless, the bullet lodged itself just short of his lung, and, dripping in blood, Roosevelt pulled himself up to the podium. He asked the crowd to please “…be very quiet and excuse me from making a long speech. I’ll do the best I can, but there’s a bullet in my body. . . I have a message to deliver, and I will deliver it as long as there is life in my body.” He spoke for 90 minutes, but was unable to refer to his text due to the gaping hole which the bullet had torn through it.
How wide is a hairbreadth?
A “hairbreadth away” is 1/48 of an inch.
How much aluminum is recycled in can form?
Nearly 65 percent of America’s aluminum cans are recycled. Aluminum is one of the simplest materials to recycle.
Who came up with our current cloud nomenclature?
The system used today of naming clouds according to their shape and height was devised in 1803 by a London druggist and amateur weather-watcher, Luke Howard.
www.arcamax.com april 15, 2008
