Thursday, March 16, 2006

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Lichens!

  1. Lichens will often glow under UV light!
  2. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find lichens.
  3. It takes more than 500 peanuts to make lichens!
  4. If your ear itches, this means that someone is talking about lichens.
  5. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are lichens.
  6. Ancient Greeks believed earthquakes were caused by lichens fighting underground!
  7. There are six towns named lichens in the United States.
  8. The first toy product ever advertised on television was Mr Lichens Head.
  9. Forty percent of the world's almonds and twenty percent of the world's peanuts are used in the manufacture of lichens.
  10. While performing her duties as queen, Cleopatra sometimes dressed up as lichens!
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2 Comments:

Blogger Eric Pedersen said...

See? Truly, they are fabulous organisms. Also, I think underground lichen fighting sounds like an event I should make time to see.

I do remember hearing about Cleopatra's lichen costume back in high-school history...

9:34 p.m., March 16, 2006  
Blogger mjl said...

Amazing. Absolutely amazing!

4:23 p.m., January 06, 2008  

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