DO YOU HAVE ANY TRIVIA?

Get on DOWN Phoenix!!! Play that funky music

Hi all, thanks for the links!!!

Attila the Hun died from a nose bleed after getting drunk on his wedding night.

The famous portrait of Queen Elizabeth was painted in Weatherford, TX by Chandor. ( I saw it being painted as a kid living in W TX )

Winston Churchill's mother invented the drink Manhatten on a visit to NYC.

It takes 182,676,635 typewritten (in 12pt) googles to circle the Earth at the Equator. ( After I retired I had some spare time )

Bessie Coleman, the first female licensed pilot in the world was born in Atlanta, TX ( Where I'm typing this )

Merry Andrew - I lived in Big Springs as a kid.

More later!!

Oops!
Bessie Coleman - the first African American female pilot in the world.

The Texas State Capitol building, built in the 1880's after the previous one burned, is modeled after the US Capitol building but used native Texas red granite and is 14 & 1/2 feet taller.

Jose- Do you remember the time before Alaska joined the union, Texas had bragging rights about being the b-i-g-g-e-s-t, and used those bragging rights, any time that it could!

Well I'm not THAT old ... But Texas does have some strange idiosyncratic trivia associated with it since it was an independent republic prior to becoming a state- like we can fly the Texas flag at equal level with the US flag. Also, Texas reserved the right to succeed from the union and can be broken into 5 smaller states, etc. And it is still BIG... Like the saying goes,
"sun is riz', sun is set, driven all day and I'm in Texas yet!"

eg. If you are in El paso, you are closer to the West coast than Texarkana. And in the extreme nothern panhandle, you are closer to the Canadian border than Brownsville, TX!

Better watch that mouth sonny, or I'll hit you with my broom!

From here in British Columbia, Texan size-bragging seems as appropriate as who you guys elected president.

Jose -- if the Texas state capitol building was modeled after the US Capitol, then it actually was modeled after the Massachusetts State House because that's what the US Capitol was modeled after. Same architect, Bulfinch. He took his old Bay State blueprints and just tripled the size of everything.

Blatham- Canadians may have the land, but NOBODY has the egos of Texans!

First radio broadcast was on Christmas Eve 1906, by Reginald Andy Pleasanton.
Deforest invented the Audion Tube (amplifier).
Armstrong later developed Deforest's Audion Tube for radios.
KDKA = First radio station.
Originally RCA was a part of GE.
Philo T. Farnsworth invented Television when he was 13 yrs old.

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The little lump of flesh just forward of your ear canal, right next to your temple, is called a tragus.

Your heart stops beating when you sneeze, hence the " Bless You".

I thought you got a minor concussion to brain while sneezing, and that your heart sits on out, every time you hiccup... Correction, please

Texas may be longer and wider, but New Mexico is definately thicker.

lol, Roger - I don't know what that means exactly, but I like it!

The space between your eyebrows is your glabella.

Do you still have a glabella if you have a unibrow? I mean, I'm worried about Michael Dukakis and Brooke Shields, dontcha know.

lol - hmmm, they (along with Frida Kahlo - who had quite the unibrow) then have hirsute glabellas. Those of us who pluck have glabrous glabellas. Howzabout that alliteration?

Golly, I dunno if I could actually say that without stumbling. Glabrous glabellas. Glabrous glabellas. Gladys of the glabrous glabellas gladly gathers gladiolas in Glasgow.

The only countries in the world with one syllable in their names are CHAD, FRANCE, GREECE, LAOS (one pronunciation), and SPAIN