Trivia

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A 'clue' originally meant a ball of thread. This is why oneis said to 'unravel' the clues of a mystery.

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The act of snapping one's fingers has a name. It is calleda 'fillip.'

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Measurements have nothing to do with a Ten-Gallon hat. Thename comes from sombrero galon, which means 'braided hat'in Spanish.

Can we say big?

Giant Sequoias in California's Sequoia National Park rangefrom 2,000 to 2,100 years old and can measure 275 feet talland 30 feet across.

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Engineers30 percent of the degrees awarded in China and India are en-gineering degrees. In the US, that number is only 4 percent.

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I always wondered this...Each unit on the Richter Scale is equivalent to a powerfactor of about 32. So a 6 is 32 times more powerful thana 5.