True or false? On the March 30, 2005 Powerball lottery drawing, a record 110 players matched five of the six lucky numbers drawn for the 2nd place prize. The second-place winners were due $100,000 to $500,000 each, depending on how much they had bet. Paying all 110 of them, meant almost $19 million in unexpected payouts. The average number of …
True or False? Okay, we have all see those silly cartoons where the ostriches bury their heads in the sand, but in real life, that simply does not happen. Ostriches never stick their head in the sand, or the ground. And, there is no way that they could force their head into the ground, even if it was just sand. …
True or False? German auto manufacturers seem to have no excuses for Israel being left off maps of the Middle East on their web sites. It began on August 8th, 2002, when attention was drawn to BMW’s Middle East web site, whose map of BMW service locations throughout the Middle East identified Palestine, but left off Israel. Once BMW was …
True or False? While the smoky wisps that waft from the burning of ballots in the Sistine Chapel are both holy, and smoke, therefore holy smoke, the ancient religious tradition to announce the selection of a new Pope isn’t the origin of the expression, ‘Holy Smoke’. Oxford’s English Dictionary claims that the earliest record of ‘holy smoke’ found in print, …
True or False? Golf is actually an ancient word, one that first appeared in written language in 1425. There are conflicting theories about its origin though. The most popular theory, one that the Oxford English Dictionary seems to endorse, claims that the word ‘golf’ is derived from the Dutch word ‘kolf’, a term used for sticks, clubs, or mallets, like …
True or False? A scientific study, supposedly predicting that the naturally blonde-haired segment of the human population (blondes) will die out within the next few centuries, by the World Health Organization, found that natural blonds are very likely become extinct within two hundred years. According to the WHO study, the last natural blond will likely be born in Finland during …
True or False? Donated by the Governor General of Canada, Lord Stanley, in 1892, the Stanley Cup has the names of every team (and almost all of the players) who have won it engraved upon it. The first to win the cup was Montreal’s Amateur Athletic Association hockey club in 1893. No other sports trophy boasts the history of hockey’s …
True or false? The old wive’s tale that says it takes seven years to digest gum if you swallow it, is not true. Although chewing gum does resist the body’s efforts to dissolve it (hence the ‘indigestible’ moniker), it does not stay in the stomach. In fact, gum is eliminated as human waste in the same way, and at the …
