useless trivia

[Acrobat Angel]

Tomato is the world's most popular fruit

The most popular ice cream flavors are Vanilla, Chocolate and Strawberry

Grapes and egg will explode in the microwave

 

[BonoFox1]

--The dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours

--Giraffes have no vocal chords.


--The ball on top of a flagpole is called the truck.

 

[Acrobat Angel]

Apples will melt in very hot weather

A good cow produces about 200000 glasses of milk in her lifetime

Hot Dog comes from Germany

 

[BonoFox1]

--Dirty Harry's badge # is 2211.

--The geographical center of North America is Rugby North Dakota.


--A group of owls is called a parliament

 

[Acrobat Angel]

--Giraffes have no vocal chords.

 

[BonoFox1]

--Alexander the Great was an epileptic.

--The space between the 2 front teeth is called a diastima.

--Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.

 

[Acrobat Angel]

If you eat too many carrots your skin could turn orange

25% of the weight of your old pillow is from dust & dust mites

Iceland is the world largest Coca-Cola consumers per capita

 

[BonoFox1]

--In Disney's Fantasia, the Sorcerer name is Yensid which is Disney backwards.

--A cat has 4 rows of whiskers.


--Camel's milk does not curdle

 

[Acrobat Angel]

A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not

Coca-Cola was originally green

The largest McDonald's is in Beijing, China. It has twenty nine cash registers and measuring 28,000 square feet

 

[BonoFox1]

--33 million Hershey Kisses are made each day.

--Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.

--An animal epidemic is called a epizootic.

 

[BonoFox1]

--Bubble Gum contains rubber......

--Howdy Doody has exactly 48 freckles on his face.


--An office chair with wheels travels 8 miles a year.

 

[BonoFox1]

--Easter Sunday is always the first Sunday after the first full moon after March 21.


--The dial tone of a normal phone is in the key of F.


--Corduroy comes from the French, meaning cloth of the king.

 

[BonoFox1]

--Shirley Temple always had 56 curls in her hair.

--Oak trees do not have acorns until they are 50 years or older.


--Roosters cannot crow if they cannot extend their necks.

 

[BonoFox1]

--The signs around HTML Tags are called Angle Braces.


--The ashes of an average cremated person weighs 9 lbs

--A duck's quack does not echo.

 

[BonoFox1]

--No word in the English Language rhymes with month.


--Worcestershire Sauce is basically an Anchovy Ketchup.


--At the first Thanksgiving dinner Lobster was one of the main entrees.

 

[BonoFox1]

--Most American car horns honk in the key of F.


--In an average lifetime the average American receives 31 prank phone calls.


--Peanuts are used in the manufacture of dynamite

 

[Acrobat Angel]

There are over 7 000 varieties of apples

In the U.S. ice cream is sold most on a Sunday

Drunk drivers in Taiwan can choose their penalty

 

[Acrobat Angel]

A person classified as "ugly" in San Francisco may not walk down any street

In San Francisco it is illegal to wipe one's car with used underwear

Bubblegum is forbidden in Singapore

 

[BonoFox1]

--Snakes can't blink.


--Rat can tread water for 3 days.

--The bigger the naval, the sweeter the orange.

 

[BonoFox1]

A person classified as "ugly" in San Francisco may not walk down any street

In San Francisco it is illegal to wipe one's car with used underwear

 

[BonoFox1]

--In an average lifetime the human heart circulates 55 million gallons of blood.


--Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.


--It is illegal in the state of Kentucky to marry your wife's grandmother.

 

[BonoFox1]

--Kokomo Indiana is the home of canned tomato juice.


--If a frog's mouth is held open too long the frog will suffocate

--Ants prefer not to walk through baby powder.

 

[BonoFox1]

--A woodpeckers tongue is long enough to wrap it around his head 2 times.

--A sick pig rarely curls it's tail.


--All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.

 

[BonoFox1]

--The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.


--James Doohan, who plays Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott ( Scotty) on Star Trek, is missing the entire middle finger on his right hand lost it on D-Day).

--Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."

 

[BonoFox1]

--The fingerprints of Koala Bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.

--Actor Tommy Lee Jones and vice-president AL Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.

--The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-Star Game.

 

[Acrobat Angel]

--It is illegal in the state of Kentucky to marry your wife's grandmother.

... and why would you want to do that? can you marry your husbands grandfather though?

 

[Acrobat Angel]

Between 1979 and 1988 chess was banned in Iran

In Utah, it is illegal to swear in front of a dead person

It was for some time illegal to sell ET dolls in France

 

[Acrobat Angel]

Swimming during the day was illegal in New South Wales, Australia from 1833 until 1903

It is illegal to get fish drunk in Oklahoma

A Kentucky law specifies that if you come "face-to-face" with a cow on the road you must remove your hat

 

[BonoFox1]

In Utah, it is illegal to swear in front of a dead person

 

[BonoFox1]

--No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl

--If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have ¤1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

--The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.