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Daily Trivia

How do snakes breathe?

on Dec 12, 2024

Breathing for most snakes is accomplished with one lung only. The left lung is either greatly reduced in size or missing completely.

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Snails sleep a lot. In addition to several months of winter hibernation, they crawl into their shells to get out of the hot sun, which dries them, or heavy rain, which waterlogs them. Desert snails may even doze for three ...Read More

What size were Klinger's pumps?

Daily Trivia / December 11, 2024

Cross-dressing Corporal Max Klinger on the TV sitcom M*A*S*H, wore size 10 pumps.

What did the fly tell Descartes?

Daily Trivia / December 11, 2024

Descartes came up with the theory of coordinate geometry by looking at a fly walk across a tiled ceiling.

How much Barley goes into Guinness?

Daily Trivia / December 11, 2024

A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness Beer.

What are the origins of the Shroud of Turin?

Daily Trivia / December 11, 2024

The origin of the relic is hotly disputed. Indeed, it may be impossible to ever fully resolve the controversy over the cloth because some believers are willing to accept supernatural explanations for the creation of the ...Read More

When was the first Christmas club?

Daily Trivia / December 10, 2024

A Christmas club, a savings account in which a person deposits a fixed amount of money regularly to be used at Christmas for shopping, came about around 1905.