Which bird has the largest brain?

Daily Trivia / December 07, 2024

The hummingbird's tiny brain, 4.2% of its body weight, is proportionately the largest in the bird kingdom.

How large is Las Vegas?

Daily Trivia / December 07, 2024

Though the Las Vegas sprawl measures 15 miles wide by 15 miles long, most of the 30 million tourists each year tend to mob the 6-mile stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard that includes both the Strip, home to the city's ...Read More

Why is the Black Mission fig so named?

Daily Trivia / December 07, 2024

The Black Mission fig, the most popular variety of fig growing in desert areas, is so named because of its color and because it was the variety introduced at the California and Southwestern Spanish missions.

How well do dogs smell?

Daily Trivia / December 06, 2024

Because of their acute sense of smell, dogs are trained to sniff out everything from drugs to bombs to iron ore. In Ontario, Canada, instruments couldn't locate where natural gas was escaping from a pipeline buried 18 feet...Read More

How many parts make up a Boeing 767?

Daily Trivia / December 06, 2024

The Boeing 767 aircraft is a collection of 3.1 million parts from 800 different suppliers around the world: fuselage parts from Japan, center wing section from Southern California, and flaps from Italy.

Why is a bubble round?

Daily Trivia / December 06, 2024

A bubble is round because the air within it presses equally against all its parts, thus causing all surfaces to be equidistant from its center.