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Old 05-28-2002, 01:58 PM   #24
Grand-Ranger
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Join Date: March 29, 2001
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Ah trivia!! My favorite subject

Heres some from off the top of my head.

There are 119 grooves on the edge of a quarter

The Indian epic poem the "Mahabhrata" is eight times longer than "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" combined

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

An Alligator cant stick out its tounge.

Among other well-known names, a group of fish can also be called a draught

Until recently, a hockey goaltender never wore a mask. By 1959, Jacques Plante, an NHL All-Star goalie, had accumulated a hairline fracture and 200 stitches. Flying pucks had broken his jaw, both cheekbones, and his nose. Fibreglass Canada worked with Plante to develop the first-ever hockey goalie mask. While he was wearing the mask, his team, the Montreal Canadiens, won the Stanley cup for the third time

The letters in the name Jaromir (as in Jaromir Jagr of the Pittsburgh Penguins), when rearranged, spells Mario, Jr. (as in Mario Lemieux) (Only Hockey fans will get that one).

Before 1918, Slovenia belonged to Austria-Hungary; from 1918 to 1991, it was part of Yugoslavia. It declared its independence on June 25, 1991

Finland has the greatest number of islands in the world: 179,584

Finland is smaller than the state of California

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