Trivia: Amazing Facts

In Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile, it has never rained.

• There is so much moisture in the air that if it were all to condense and fall, there would be up to an additional three inches of water added to the earth's surface.

• Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat and digest a piece of celery than the celery has in it initially.

• Scarlett O' Hara, Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind lead character, was originally given the name Pansy.

• It takes about 50 hours for a snake to digest one frog.

• Rattlesnakes gather in groups to sleep through the winter. Sometimes up to 1,000 of them will coil up together to keep warm.

• In Siberia, it can get so cold that the moisture in a person’s breath freezes instead of forming vapor. It can actually be heard when it falls to earth as ice crystals.

• Of the twenty-five highest mountains on Earth, nineteen are in the Himalayas.

• China produces about 70 percent of the world's silk supply.

• Thailand means "land of the free."


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Be it jewel or toy,
Not the prize gives the joy,
But the striving to win the prize.

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