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Anniversary Trivia Table of Contents Are You Smarter Than Balz?
You all probably need a break from the heavy reading going on, so here are some tidbits for you. These will most likely not get you anywhere in life, but isn’t it cool that you know them now? Have some fun with them and you just may be amazed to see what you learn and what kind of story you come up with. :)
Did You Know?
The average human emits approximately 95 watts of energy as heat in the form of infrared light.
On average, a child uses 730 crayons by their 10th birthday.
Aspirin and heroin were created by the same chemist 11 days apart.
The Tasmanian Devil stores body fat in its tail, so an unhealthy devil often has a thin tail.
By 1800 B.C., the ass (donkey) had reached the Middle East where the trading city of Damascus was referred to as the “City of Asses” in cuneiform texts.
The St. Bernard dog breed is the preferred dog in China because it yields a better-tasting and more economical source of meat than other breeds of dog.
Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
Seoul, the capital of South Korea, just means “the capital” in the Korean language.
Adlib!
One thing that I’ve heard the newsletter is lacking is more interactive parts to it so I hope this satisfies your needs. Alright, get out a piece of paper and fill in a word for each of the following 20 categories, then read the story by inserting each of your responses in the corresponding numbers. I can’t completely take credit for this since I got the idea from a friend of mine. It’s more fun if you don’t peek at the story either. Keep it clean please. :p
I really can’t wait to drive back to (1) and see (2) and (3). Now that we finally have IDs, we can get into (4) and party it up. Not like that one time in school when we were drinking at (5)’s house and we all decided to (6) each other. That was awkward. Especially when (7) and (8) walked in on me and (9) wearing nothing but (10) in the hot tub. They totally saw our (11)s that night, it was so embarrassing. Anyways, while I’m home, it’s going to be really tough to (12) in the corner with my parents around all the time. Once they walked in on my sister (13)ing in the middle of the hallway and nearly sent her to (14). Thank God she had graduated and had a full-time job working at (15) making (16) bucks an hour. That really saved her! Unfortunately, the job is in (17), so goodbye and good riddance! In the end, one thing is for sure: I’ll come back having gained (18) pounds, (19)ed all over the house, and made out with (20) former crushes.
- Hometown
- Friend from home you rarely see
- Another friend from home you rarely see
- Hometown bar
- Weird friend from school
- One of the senses
- Crush from school
- Another crush from school
- Best friend from school
- Swimming Accessories
- Body Part
- Personal Activity
- Same as 12
- Continent (Not yours)
- Favorite fast food restaurant
- Dollar amount
- Random foreign country
- Number
- Same as 13
- Number