Short Saturday night posting, and non-political too. It's adapted from a trivia tidbits ad by Aberdeen Asset Management Asia Ltd, in Friday's (29 April) TODAY.
1) How many hearts does an earthworm have?
2) Did the percentage of people dreaming in black and white increase or decrease after the introduction of colour television (in the US, I believe)?
3) How heavy are one million US$1 bills?
4) Which gender blinks more than the other, and by how much?
5) How long can a cockroach survive without its head?
6) How long will it take a car travelling at 100mph (160km/h) to reach the nearest star?
7) What is the memory span of a goldfish?
8) Can you sneeze with your eyes open?
9) Still on sneezing, what is the possible speed of that "Ah Choo!"?
10) How many earthquakes does Alaska experience in a typical year?
The Aberdeen ad's source is:
http://www.funfactz.com/
Check it out! And the answers to the quiz above? Here they are:
1) Five, yes, five hearts!
2) The percentage decreased.
3) One tonne.
4) Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
5) More than a week.
6) More than 29 million years.
7) 3 seconds (Hah! And how did they find that out???)
8) It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
9) Over 100mph!
10) More than 5,000.
The item about headless cockroaches reminded me about the true account of a chicken that once lived for 18 months without its head. The Internet has lots of links to this phenomenon. Just Google for "headless chicken that lived".
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