Science Trivia

Have a Heart
If all major forms of cardiovascular disease were eliminated, human life expectance would increase by 9.78 years.
SOURCE: National Center for Health Statistics
Pillow Talk
A new survey of pillow primping practices indicates that 23% of people consider themselves stackers; 20% plumpers; 16% are rollers; 16% cuddlers; while the reminder are smashers and crunchers.
SOURCE: Survey by DuPont Co.
TB or Not TB?
Treatment-resistant tuberculosis has been reported in 42 states and Washington, D.C., up from 13 states during the tuberculosis epidemic of the late 1980s and early 1990s.
SOURCE: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
DID YOU KNOW?
The world record for passing gas was set on Japanese television,
3,000 times in a row
SOURCE: Grossology: The science of Really Gross Things
DID YOU KNOW?
The typical American child watches 1,680 minutes of television per week (about two months a year). The same youth spends 38 minutes a week in meaningful conversation with his or her parents.
SOURCE: A.C. Nielson Co.
DID YOU KNOW?
. . . that a cricket's ears are on its knees? That a fly has tastebuds on its feet.
SOURCE: Nature Museum of the Chicago Academy of Sciences
DID YOU KNOW?
Mexico City is sinking at a rate of 18 inches per year as a result of draining the water table for human consumption.
SOURCE: National Water Commission
DID YOU KNOW?
The aqualung, a device for breathing under water was invented by Jacques Cousteau and Emile Gagnan of the French Navy in 1943 so that "frogmen" could put mines under enemy ships.
STRANGE BUT TRUE--
In 1994, scientists in Australia invented a way of removing fleece from sheep without shearing. They injected the sheep with a special hormone, then wrapped them in lightweight hairnets. Three weeks later, the fleece could be peeled off the sheep by hand.

Math Trivia

1. Did you know that…..
2. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
3. 1,741,725 = 1 7 + 7 7 + 4 7 + 1 7 + 7 7 + 2 7 + 5 7
4. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
5. Assuming Rudolph is in front, there are 40,320 ways to arrange the other eight reindeer.
6. The largest prime number is 13,395 digits long
7. 2 and 5 are the only primes that end in 2 or 5
8. 1 and 2 are the only numbers where they are the values of the numbers of factors they have.
9. You would have to count to one thousand to use the letter "A" in the English language to spell a whole number.
10. Rene Descartes came up with the theory of coordinate geometry by looking at a fly walk across a tiled ceiling.

English Trivia

• The word set has more definitions than any other word in the
  English language.
• Underground is the only word in the English language that
  begins and ends with the letters “und.”
• There are only four words in the English language which end
  in”-dous” tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
• The longest one-syllable word in the English language is
  screeched.
• The longest word in the English language, according to the
  Oxford English Dictionary,
  is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
  The only other word with the same amount of letters is
  pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
• There is a seven letter word in the English language that
  contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters,
  therein the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein. Does the sporting goods store REI count too?
• Stewardesses is the longest word that is typed with only the
  left hand. (On a QWERTY keyboard)
• Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct
  order, as does arsenious, meaning “containing arsenic.”
• The combination ough can be pronounced in nine different
  ways.The following sentence contains them all “A rough-coated,
  dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough;
  after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.”
• The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a
  letter is uncopyrightable.
• The dot over the letter ‘i’ is called a tittle.
• The word checkmate in chess comes from the Persian phrase
  “Shah Mat,” which means “the king is dead”.

Games

School Activity Video

Knock Knock

Knock knock
Who's there?
HONDA
HONDA who?
HONDA first day of christmas my true love sent to me.

Knock knock
Who's there?
PA-AUTOLOADMAX NAMAN HOW MUCH MAGKANO
PA-AUTOLOADMAX NAMAN HOW MUCH MAGKANO who?
Nothings gonna change my life for you,PA-AUTOLOADMAX NAMAN HOW MUCH MAGKANO.

Knock knock
Who's there?
DINA BONNEVIE, GARY V
DINA BONNEVIE, GARY V who?
DINA BONNEVIE my lover, GARY V my friend