Traf’s Trivianarium (0000021-0000030) Series 3

TRIVIA 0000021: Did you know that a boy who played as Dicky in a movie "CJ7" was actually played by an actress named Jiao Xu?

TRIVIA 0000022: Did you know that the only two animals that can see behind itself without looking back or turning its head back are the rabbit and the parrot?

TRIVIA 0000023: Did you know that a morbid fear of long words is called "hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia?

TRIVIA 0000024: Did you know that the oldest street in the Philippines is Colon Street in Cebu? It is named after Cristobal Colon, the Spanish name of Italian explorer Christopher Columbus.

TRIVIA 0000025: Did you know that a pangram (also known as holoalphabetic) is a sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet? Such example is "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

Can you think of any example?

TRIVIA 0000026: Did you know that the world's longest name for a place is "Taumata­whakatangihanga­koauau­o­tamatea­turi­pukakapiki­maunga­horo­nuku­pokai­whenua­kitanatahu".? It is the Māori name for a hill, 305 metres (1,001 ft) high, close to Porangahau, south of Waipukurau in southern Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. natives call it "Taumata" for short. The name translates roughly as "The summit where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, the climber of mountains, the land-swallower who travelled about, played his nose flute to his loved one". At 85 letters, it has been listed in the Guinness World Records as the longest place name in the entire world.

TRIVIA 0000027: Did you know that an ambigram is an art form that may be read as one or more words not only in its form as presented, but also from another viewpoint, direction, or orientation? The words readable in the other viewpoint, direction or orientation may be the same or different from the original words. It was featured in Dan Brown's novel Angels and Demons that later made into film. 

You can try to experiment ambigrams in this site:www.flipscript.com

TRIVIA 0000028: Did you know that a palindrome is a word, phrase, number, or other sequence of units that reads the same forward or backward, with general allowances for adjustments to punctuation and word dividers? Punctuation, capitalization, and spacing are usually ignored, although some, such as "Rats live on no evil star" and "Step on no pets", include the spacing. Other examples: "Eva, can I stab bats in a cave?", "Mr. Owl ate my metal worm", "Was it a car or a cat I saw?", "A nut for a jar of tuna", "Do geese see God?", "Ma is as selfless as I am", "Dammit, I'm mad!", "A Toyota's a Toyota", "Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog", and "A Santa lived as a devil at NASA".

TRIVIA 0000029: Did you know that it was a year of 2010 when Japan printed out 100 million yen worth of Naruto money for selling out 100 million Naruto manga volumes? These Naruto money were used at around 250 shops sited around the city.

TRIVIA 0000030: Did you know that a Taiwanese teenager died after playing Diablo III for 40 hours straight, The Australian reports citing United Daily News. The 18-year-old boy identified only by his surname, Chuang, booked a room at a cafe in Tainan on July 13 and spent almost two days playing the game without eating. On July 15 Chuang was found resting on a table; after an attendant woke him up, he took a couple of steps before collapsing. He was pronounced dead shortly after arriving at a hospital. Chuang’s death is speculated to be the result of cardiovascular problems due to spending that much time sitting.

This was the second gaming-related death in Taiwan this year, and similar deaths have been reported in other countries as well. In February, a man died after playing League of Legends for 23 hours straight. In February last year, a 30-year-old Chinese man died in Beijing after playing an online game for three days. 

source: July 19, 2012 by Stan Schroeder