Trivia

Who loves trivia.. I'm gonna give you some>

Lets start with the

Tree.

Do you know that:

Bristlecone tree

• The bristlecone pine is the oldest living tree -- one specimen is 4,600 years old!
• Longest living organism on Earth
• One acre of trees removes 2.6 tones of carbon dioxide each year.(.aha)
• Tree roots stabilize soil and prevent erosion.
• A single tree produces approximately 260 pounds of oxygen per a year. This mean that 2 mature trees can supply enough oxygen each year to supply a family of 4.
• The Pacific Yew tree, which grows in northern Idaho, produces a cancer-fighting agent called "taxol." Doctors use taxol to control ovarian and other types of cancer.
• Trees first appeared on Earth long before the dinosaurs did - about 400 million years ago
• Trees improve water quality by acting as a filter to unwanted nutrients and pesticides.

Guys be aware!:p

Tree most struck by lightning:  OakFavorite tree lovers carve their initials in: BeechOldest living tree (4844 years): Bristlecone PineNoah's dove brought back this branch: OliveThis tree has the largest seed of all. Coconut

See! How we waste one of the best gifts of nature...Protect and save them, they make your living payback as they payback you more..

" Only when the last tree has died and the river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money"

Sea

• The maximum depth of ocean in world is 6.9 miles.

• Bay of Fundy experiences the highest difference in changes in tide.

• the earth’s ocean covers an area larger than the moon 

• There are about 15,000 to 40,000 species of fish with 25,000 as the figure often stated. There is a problem due to dimorphic fishes which are hard to classify.

• When all the oceans dry up, they will leave salt that can form a continent as big as Africa!!!

• Mariana Trench, the deepest place in the world, is situated in the Pacific Ocean.

Language

• the oldest word in the English language is 'town'

• "Euouae," a medieval music term, is the longest word in English that contains only vowels. It’s also the word with the most consecutive vowels.

• "Screeched," which means to make a harsh sound, is the longest one-syllable word in English.

• The words "facetiously," "abstemiously," and "arseniously," each contain all six vowels (including “y”) in alphabetical order. The word "duoliteral" contains all five vowels (not including “y”) in reverse alphabetical order

• "Floccinaucinihilipilification," is the longest word in English that does not contain letter “e”

• No words in English rhyme with: "month," "orange," "silver," or "purple."

• The word “therein” contains only seven letters, but it contains 10 words that can be formed using consecutive letters: the, there, I, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, herein.

• The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” is a pangram, which is a sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet.

• There are 10 countries in the world that are known by separate English names.

• The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

• All Hebrew orignating names that end with the letters "el" have something to do with God. Source: Joshua Allen

• No words in the English language rhyme with orange, silver or purple.

• "Bookkeeper" and "bookkeeping" are the only words in the English language with three consecutive double letters.

• Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "L.A."

lOvE

 things you ight not know about LoVe

• The oldest known love song was written 4,000 years ago and comes from an area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.

• Historically, sweat has been an active ingredient in perfume and love  potions. 

• Since ancient Greece, the apple has been a symbol of love. The Celts believed that the apple represented love because it lasted so long after being picked

• In the 20th century scientists from Baltimore stated that during a kiss people exchange about 278 different kinds of bacteria, 95% of which are harmless. 

• The German language contains 30 words that refer to the act of kissing. There is even a word, Nachkuss, for all the kisses that haven't yet been named.

• Scientists suggest that most people will fall in love approximately seven times before marriage

• Some individuals who claim never to have felt romantic love suffer from hypopituitarism, a rare disease that doesn’t allow a person to feel the rapture of love.

• The word “lesbian” is derived from the Greek island Lesbos, where the poetess Sappho composed her famous poems to her famous female lovers.

• Brains in love and brains in lust are not identical. Erotic photos activate the hypothalamus (which controls hunger and thirst) and the amygdala (arousal) areas of the brain. Love activates areas of the brain with a high concentration of receptors for dopamine (associated with euphoria, craving, and addiction) and its relative, norepinephrine.^d