Sunday, April 13, 2008

Trivia 4-13-08

Here are several tidbits since I missed a few days.

A baby is born without kneecaps. They appear between age 2 and 6.

The microwave oven was invented by mistake when an engineer testing a magnetron tube noticed that the radiation from it melted the chocolate bar he had in his pocket.

The Olympic flag's colors are always red, black, blue, green and yellow rings on a field of white. This is because at least one of those colors appears on the flag of every nation on the planet.

The arteries and veins surrounding the brain stem called the "circle of Willis" looks like a stick person with a large head.

23% of employees say they have had sex in the office.

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