useless trivia

[Acrobat Angel]

Almost 425,000 hotdogs and buns, 160,000 hamburgers and cheeseburgers were served at Woodstock '99

The Beatles have sold more records than anyone else with over a billion worldwide

The biggest disco ball in the world has a diameter of 2.41 meters and 137.89 kilograms. It also has 6,900 mirror squares on it.

 

[Acrobat Angel]

Starfish have no brains.

The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses.

Bono is the only person in history to be nominated for an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Grammy, and Nobel Peace Prize

 

[BonoFox1]

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour

 

[BonoFox1]

Bono is the only person in history to be nominated for an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Grammy, and Nobel Peace Prize

 

[BonoFox1]

Bonofox the nerd haha!

--The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.


--If your eyes are six feet above the surface of the ocean, the horizon will be about three statute miles away.


--An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

 

[BonoFox1]

--Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.

--Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.


--Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.

 

[BonoFox1]

--To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs -- it will let you go instantly

--Reindeer like to eat bananas.

--Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".

 

[BonoFox1]

--Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.

--A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

--In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."

 

[BonoFox1]

--The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."


--Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula."

--If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die, they need gravity to swallow.

 

[BonoFox1]

--A "noggin" is also a half a cupful of whatever.



--Medical records contain accounts of women who've
given themselves cesarean sections and men who've
given themselves appendectomies.

--Yes, deer will eat meat. So will rabbits.

 

[cobl04]

It is illegal to be a prostitute in Siena, Italy if your name is Mary.

You cannot cross Minesota state lines with a duck on your head.

Saturn is so dense that if you had a teaspoonfull, you would not be able to lift it off the ground, but the whole planet could float in your bathtub.

 

[Acrobat Angel]

You cannot cross Minesota state lines with a duck on your head.

...and you'd have a duck on your head because...

 

[BonoFox1]

^^^LOL!!!!

 

[Acrobat Angel]

Elvis once said, I dont know anything about music. In my line you dont have to

Dolly Parton once lost a Dolly Parton look-alike contest

Ireland has one the most Eurovision titles

 

[BonoFox1]

--LASER is an acronym for Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emmision of Radiation.

--Forest Gump is now the 3rd highest grossing film ever, it's just passed Star Wars.


--The Artist Formerly Known As Prince has often made public his contract problems with Warner Brothers. The cover of the Purple Medley has a hidden message saying Help Me.

 

[BonoFox1]

--Harrison Ford was once a carpenter.


--The Enola Gay was the name of the bomber which dropped the atomic bomb which levelled Hiroshima.


--The USA has more lawyers than the rest of the world put together!

 

[Acrobat Angel]

The original name of Broadway was the Wiechquaekeck Trail

China has more English speaking people than the United States

A village in Mexico is named Honey

 

[BonoFox1]

--The bicycle was first introduced to British roads in 1888, but the rider had to ring a bell continuously to warn others of their approach.

--The first computer was built in 1823. The steam driven calculating machine, built by Charles Babbage, failed to work due to poor workmanship in the intricate parts. When rebuilt by the Science Museum of London in 1991 it worked.

--The worlds longest escalator is in Leningrad Metro, 120 metres long.

 

[BonoFox1]

China has more English speaking people than the United States

 

[Acrobat Angel]

The first word spoken on the moon was the word "okay"

Pinocchio is a Italian word for "pine eye"

A coward was originally a boy who took care of cows

 

[BonoFox1]

--Ammonia is the active ingredient in smelling salts.

--Near-sighted model, Grace Robin was the first to show off contact lenses in 1930.

--Gunpowder is formed after mixing charcoal, saltpetre and sulphur.

 

[BonoFox1]

A coward was originally a boy who took care of cows

 

[Acrobat Angel]

The 45 letter word PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS is the longest word in English? The word refers to a lung disease caused by breathing in certain particles

Before the year 1000, the word "she" did not exist in the English language

The phrase "rule of thumb" comes from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb

 

[Acrobat Angel]

The most common name for a goldfish is "Jaws"

McDonalds calls frequent buyers of their food "heavy users"

Cleveland spelled backwards is "DNA level C"

 

[Acrobat Angel]

Oprah Winfrey was the first African American woman to win the title Miss Fire Prevention in Nashville, 1971

Nicole Kidman is scared of butterflies

Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a bellybutton

 

[BonoFox1]

--The continents names all end with the same letter with which they start.


--The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

--One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!.

 

[BonoFox1]

--If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!.


--The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!.

--Porcupines float in water!.

 

[Acrobat Angel]

--The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

 

[BonoFox1]

--Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!.

--A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside

--A hummingbird weighs less than a penny!.

 

[Acrobat Angel]

Walt Disney was afraid of mice

"60 Minutes," on CBS is the only television show that doesn't have a theme song

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere