Here is some useless trivia knowledge for those of you gearing up for the Purim Panoply Trivia for Charity Event:

  • The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language. 
  • 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
  • The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night. 
  • "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. 
  • A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
  • The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
  • A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
  • Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants. 
  • More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
  • Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
  • If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white. 
  • Women blink nearly twice as much as men. 
  • The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with. 
  • The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want. 
  • TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard. 
  • If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction 
  • The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left. 
  • A snail can sleep for 3 years. 
  • China has more English speakers than the United States. 
  • The electric chair was invented by a dentist. 
  • Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world. 
  • The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA. 
  • Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten. 
  • Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. 
  • Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon. 
  • Cat's urine glows under a black light. 
  • Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. 
  • Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age. 
  • Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.  
  • Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. 
  • If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. 
  • The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet. 
  • On average, people fear spiders more than they do death. 
  • The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE. 
  • It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
  • A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. 
  • The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. 
  • Polar bears are left-handed. 
  • The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds. 
  • A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death. 
  • Butterflies taste with their feet. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. 
  • An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. 
  • Starfish haven't got brains. 
  • Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
  • Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. 
  • The average secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing. 
  • A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. 
  • There are more chickens than people in the world. 
  • Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey. 
  • The longest one-syllable word in the English language is
    "screeched." 
  • No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple. 
  • "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". 
  • Almonds are members of the peach family. 
  • There are only four words in the English language which end in "- dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. 
  • A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. 
  • An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain. 
  • Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. 
  • In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time
    displayed on a watch is 10:10. 
  • A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours. 
  • A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. 
  • The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world. 
  • In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. 
  • The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z, hence "Oz." 
  • The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. 
  • The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. 
  • There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.