{"id":9111,"date":"2010-01-10T16:53:42","date_gmt":"2010-01-10T16:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2010\/01\/interesting-trivia\/"},"modified":"2010-01-10T16:53:42","modified_gmt":"2010-01-10T16:53:42","slug":"interesting-trivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2010\/01\/interesting-trivia\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Trivia"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"posterous_autopost\">Sometimes we come across really interesting, although useless, trivia.\u00a0 Here is one collection from twitter.\n<ol>\n<li>When you die, your hair still grows for a couple of months.<i> (Do the bodies need a hair cut every month?)<\/i> <\/li>\n<li>According to Archives of General Medicine, coffee drinkers have sex more frequently n enjoy it more than non-coffee drinkers<\/li>\n<li>Each 5 m.p.h. you drive over 60 m.p.h. is like paying an additional $.10 a gallon for gas.<\/li>\n<li>In 1980, the city of Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city<\/li>\n<li>The oldest patented company logo is the red triangle of Bass beers.<\/li>\n<li>The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly<\/li>\n<li>5 cents coin is sold $ 3.7 million at auction in the U.S.<\/li>\n<li>The smallest human penis ever recorded was just 5\/8 of an inch long<\/li>\n<li>Babies start dreaming even before they're born<\/li>\n<li>In Cleveland, Ohio it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license<\/li>\n<li>Blue eyes are the most sensitive to light, dark brown the least sensitive<\/li>\n<li>The word \"nerd\" was first coined by Dr. Seuss in \"If I Ran the Zoo.\"<\/li>\n<li>By raising your legs slowly &amp; laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand<\/li>\n<li>Elvis Presley got a 'C' in his eighth grade music class<\/li>\n<li>Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump. 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