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Otis the
Trivia Genius
Remember Cliff Claven on
Cheers? Well, Otis isn’t a whole lot different than Cliff in
that he can spout out some pretty amazing bits of trivia. Are
they true?
Probably as true as Cliff Claven’s were on Cheers.
Otis and Gabby were wiling away
the centuries it seemed at the bandstand on the common in
Andover and Otis began to talk to Gabby about things he bet
Gabby didn’t know. For example:
A crocodile cannot stick out
its tongue.
A snail can sleep for three
years.
All polar bears are left
handed.
Butterflies taste with their
feet
Elephants are the only animals
that can’t jump.
February 1865 is the only month
in recorded history not to have a full moon.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7
months and 6 days, you will have produced enough sound energy to
heat one cup of coffee.
Leonardo da Vinci invented the
scissors.
Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
Right-handed people live, on
average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
The ant always falls over on
its right side when intoxicated.
The name of all the continents
end with the same letter that they start with.
Women blink nearly twice as
much as men.
You are more likely to be
killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
AND, in 1923 nobody showed up
at the Andover Old Home Days Festival.
This of course, is only a small
sampling of the genius of Otis. He is loaded with much, oh so
much more.
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