1. Fun, Fascinating and Totally Useless Facts
A supplemental COLORADO HOMEOWNER REPORT to the April 2012 newsletter
The Results Team
Sue McIlvennan and Jim Kane
Brokers Guild -Cherry Creek Ltd.
Take a break . . . and have some fun. That’s what this month’s Report is all about. Here’s a list of fun,
fascinating and totally useless facts that will amuse your kids or grandkids, spice up a dinner conversation, or just
add a little fun triviality to your day.
No word in the English language Petting a cat or a dog lowers blood the time that ice will take.
rhymes with month, orange, silver, pressure. Application is directly onto the skin
or purple. with a cloth, and left on for an hour
or so.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word
typed with only the left hand and Multiple trials indicate that taking
"lollipop" with your right. vinegar with food increases satiety
(the feeling of fullness) and so
The sentence: "The quick brown fox reduces the amount of food
jumps over the lazy dog" uses consumed.
every letter of the alphabet.
Nepal is the only country in the
The average person's left hand world whose flag is not square or
does 56% of the typing. Hydrogen peroxide bubbles on rectangular shaped.
wounds not because it is killing
germs, but because it decomposes
into water and oxygen gas in the
presence of enzymes from broken
skin cells.
Antarctica contains about 90
percent of the world's ice and 70
percent of its fresh water.
In 1992 chewing gum was banned
TYPEWRITER is the longest word from Singapore. Chewing gum was
that can be made using the letters causing serious maintenance The average human emits
only on one row of the keyboard. problems in all areas of the city- approximately 95 watts of energy
state. as heat in the form of infrared light.
The only 15-letter word that can be A standard 100-watt incandescent
spelled without repeating a letter is The term "sniper" is derived from light bulb emits only about 5% of its
"uncopyrightable." "snipe", which is a bird that was energy as visible light; the rest is
difficult to hunt. The term dates given off as heat in the form of
There are only four words in the back to the 18th century. infrared light. This means the
English language that end in average human produces the same
"dous": tremendous, horrendous, amount of heat as a 100-watt bulb.
stupendous, and hazardous.
Human skin produces Vitamin D
There are two words in the English when exposed to sunlight,
language that have all five vowels specifically ultraviolet B radiation.
in order: "abstemious" and
"facetious." Drinking 16 ounces of ice water (0
degrees Celsius) requires the body
Peanuts are one of the ingredients to burn 17.5 calories to warm the
of dynamite. water up to body temperature. The
recommended daily intake of water
The most common name in the Apple cider vinegar is a much more is 64 ounces (eight 8-ounce
world is Mohammed. useful astringent than ice and will glasses). The body will burn 70
reduce inflammation, bruising and calories if this amount is consumed
swelling in approximately a third of as ice water.

2. An average human male's digestive Agency, 80% of the asphalt from Calbraith Perry Rodgers was an
system, consisting of the mouth, road surfaces' that is removed each American aviation pioneer. He
pharynx, esophagus, stomach, year during widening and made the first transcontinental
small intestine, large intestine, resurfacing projects is reused as airplane flight across the U.S. from
rectum, and anus is approximately part of new roads, roadbeds, September 17, 1911, to November
20 feet (6.5 meters) long from end shoulders and embankments. 5, 1911, with dozens of stops, both
to end. intentional and accidental. The feat
At a stride of 30 inches per step, made him a national celebrity, but
Values on the Monopoly game you would have to take 2,112 steps he was killed in a crash a few
board are the same today as they to walk a distance of one mile. months later at an exhibition in
were in 1935. California.
A three-minute song stored in a
128kbps MP3 file, if saved on Tigers have striped skin, not just
punch cards, would require a stack striped fur.
of cards five feet nine inches high.
Pablo Picasso's full name was
"Pablo Diego José Francisco de
Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de
los Remedios Cipriano de la
Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio
Clito Ruiz y Picasso."
At the start of World War I, none of
the participating forces issued metal
helmets to their troops. The first
helmets were designed and issued Both Thomas Jefferson and John
after it was noticed that there were Adams died on Independence Day,
a significant number of head July 4, 1826.
wounds inflicted on the soldiers in
the trenches that were caused by It took 214 crates to transport the
exploding shrapnel overhead. Statue of Liberty from France to
New York in 1885.
80% of all the diamonds mined
every year (equal to about 100 The highest tides on Earth occur in
million carats or 20,000 kg) are the eastern extremity of the Bay of
unsuitable for use as gemstones, Fundy, between the Canadian
and are destined for industrial use. provinces of New Brunswick and
Nova Scotia, where the average
Typically, a water tower's tank is tide range is 39 feet and can reach
sized to hold about a day's worth of 52 feet.
water for the community served by
the tower. The average sized water Leonardo da Vinci could write with
tower can hold 1 million gallons of one hand and draw with the other at
water. If the pumps fail, the water the same time.
tower holds enough water to keep
things flowing for about a day.
Hope you’ve enjoyed this fun
trivia break!
Alexander Hamilton and his son,
Philip, both died on the same spot,
and both during duels. Philip went
first, 3 years before his father would
be killed in that same field by Aaron
Burr.
"Go." is the shortest complete
Asphalt road surface is the most sentence in the English language.
widely recycled material in the US,
both by gross tonnage and by Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if
percentage. According to a report injected intravenously.
issued by the Federal Highway
Administration and the United The first transcontinental airplane
States Environmental Protection flight across the U.S. took 49 days.