Triva Friday

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In 2007 AT&T censored a live Pearl Jam webcast when the band criticized President George W. Bush.

According to the Dalai Lama, if you choose to be optimistic, you'll simply feel better regardless of your actual situation.

An Herb poll concludes that 68% of liberals like cilantro, but only 59% of conservatives do.

It's not easy to be a wine maker. Wine contains more than 250 chemical compounds, making it more complex than human blood.

It pays to learn how to write. In 2009, author James Patterson signed a deal to write 17 books by 2012 for a reported $100 million.

Boys are 10 times more likely to get acne than girls.

A German folk remedy suggests that to quiet a teething baby, you rub its gums with sheep brains. Later they learned that the sheep brain was not necessary and the rubbing was enough.

According to the CDC, food allergies case 11 fatalities per year in the U.S. Dairy allergies are at the top of the list, but Peanuts are specially dangerous because its reaction is the most fatal.

When Antarctica's Mt. Erebus volcano erupts, you'll want to be around if you can. Its lava contains solid pieces of pure gold.

India and China have more people than the next 21 most populous countries combined.

70% of American day care centers use TV to keep the little darlings entertained.

According to a recent publication outlining the eight top qualities of remarkable employees, one of the qualities is "fiddling", not accepting the way things are but constantly making adjustments to improve the way things are - not because they want to or have to, but because their brains are wired that way. Simply put, they just can't help it. This remarkable quality often goes undetected during job interviews so if you have it, sell it!

Have a great weekend!
 

drrpm

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Re: Triva Friday

I don't know about the veracity of all the above factoids, but lava is too hot to contain pieces of solid pure gold. The stuff in the pictures that looks like gold is a combination of sodium aluminum silicate and potassium aluminum silicate. Mount Erebus is also in a fairly constant state of low level eruption.
 

southkogs

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Re: Triva Friday

Actually just read a white paper on the last one about remarkable employees.
 
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