useless trivia

[BonoFox1]

--The ' funny bone' is not a bone but a nerve.

--Most people blink about 25 000 times a day.

--The human body has enough fat to produce 7 bars of soap.

 

[BonoFox1]

--The ancient Greeks believed that boys developed in the right hand side of the womb and girls in the left.

--Men are ten times more likely to be colour-blind than women.

--The average height of a man in the Middle Ages was five feet six inches.

 

[BonoFox1]

--When recognising someone's face, you use the right side of your brain.

--There is no single word given to describe the back of the knee.

--From fertilisation to birth, a baby's weigh increase 5 000 million times.

 

[Acrobat Angel]

Uluru (Ayers Rock) is over 8 kilometres in circumference.

The average Australian will consume 165,000 eggs in his or her lifetime.

A fear of long words is, ironically, called "Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia"

 

[BonoFox1]

--St Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, was not Irish.

--St. John was the only one of the 12 Apostles to die a natural death.

--Gabriel, Michael and Lucifer (more commonly known as Satan) are the only 3 angels to be named in the bible.
According to Genesis all demons are angels who were cast out of heaven after Lucifer tried to take God's throne and several of the other angels bowed down and worshiped him.

 

[Acrobat Angel]

Modern english defines a billion as one thousand million (1,000,000,000). Many other languages define a billion to be one million million (1,000,000,000,000).

The Guinness Book of World Records itself holds a world record, as the best-selling copyrighted series. It was created by Sir Hugh Beaver, then the managing director of the Guinness Brewery.

WD-40 stands for "Water Displacement, 40th attempt". WD-40 was invented in 1953 and was first used by Convair to protect the outer skin of the Atlas missile from rust and corrosion. Another random WD-40 fact is that WD-40 dissolves cocaine.

 

[BonoFox1]

--When Albert Einstein died, his final words died with him. The nurse at his side didn't understand German.

--China banned the pigtail in 1911 as it was seen as a symbol of feudalism.

--An American aircraft in Vietnam shot itself down with one of its own missiles.

 

[BonoFox1]

--The cost of the first pay-toilets installed in England was tuppence.

--The Nobel Prize resulted form a late change in the will of Alfred Nobel, who did not want to be remembered after his death as a propagator of violence - he invented dynamite.

--During World War One, the future Pope John XXIII was a sergeant in the Italian Army.

 

[BonoFox1]

--Only 1 child in 20 are born on the day predicted by the doctor.

--Henry VII was the only British King to be crowned on the field of battle

--The magic word "Abracadabra" was originally intended for the specific purpose of curing hay fever.

 

[Acrobat Angel]

In 1992, 29000 rubber ducks fell of a Chinese freight ship in the Pacific ocean. Thousands of them washed up on the shores of eastern Asia and Australia. Some even made it as far as the western shores of Noth & South America. But some have travelled even further; After a few years at sea they floated north into the Bering Straight where they became trapped in the polar ice cap. The ducks and the ice then migrated east. A few years ago they emerged from the ice in the northern Atlantic. From there they traveled down the eastern Canadian & US coastline before be swept into the gulf stream. They are currently on their way to England, and are expected to land sometime in the summer of 2007.

Jack the Ripper only killed on the weekend

Every year, about 6,500 Americans are injured by their toilet seats

 

[BonoFox1]

--Albert Einstein was once offered the Presidency of Israel. He declined saying he had no head for problems.

--Uri Geller, the professional psychic was born on December 20 1946. As to the origin of his alleged powers, Mr Geller maintains that they come from

 

[BonoFox1]

In 1992, 29000 rubber ducks fell of a Chinese freight ship in the Pacific ocean. Thousands of them washed up on the shores of eastern Asia and Australia. Some even made it as far as the western shores of Noth & South America. But some have travelled even further; After a few years at sea they floated north into the Bering Straight where they became trapped in the polar ice cap. The ducks and the ice then migrated east. A few years ago they emerged from the ice in the northern Atlantic. From there they traveled down the eastern Canadian & US coastline before be swept into the gulf stream. They are currently on their way to England, and are expected to land sometime in the summer of 2007.

 

[Acrobat Angel]

On average, 12 new-borns will be given to the wrong parents daily

You blink about 84,000,000 times a year

The Leaning Tower of Pisa is now closed to tourists, as it is leaning so dangerously far.

 

[BonoFox1]

--Benjamin Franklin was first to suggest daylight saving.

--It snowed in the Sahara desert on 18 February 1979.

--Uranus is visible to the naked eye.

 

[BonoFox1]

--The diameter of the Moon is 3 476 km.

--The second largest US state in the 1950's was California.

--On average, an iceberg weighs 20 million tons.

 

[Acrobat Angel]

A pregnant goldfish is called a twat.

A whale's penis is called a dork.

George Drever, a leading authority on life-saving apparatus in the 1800s, drowned in a shallow mud hole in Centennial Park in Sydney.

 

[BonoFox1]

--The Incas and the Aztecs were able to function without the wheel.

--Less than 1% of the Caribbean Islands are inhabited.

--In May 1948, Mt Ruapehu and Mt Ngauruhoe, both in New Zealand, erupted simultaneously.

 

[beegee]

--In the famous line 'Wherefore art thou Romeo', wherefore means why, not where.

Oh my goodness... thank you thank you thank you.

It's a HUGE pet peeve of mine that most people think otherwise.

 

[BonoFox1]

A pregnant goldfish is called a twat.

A whale's penis is called a dork.

 

[BonoFox1]

--Tokyo was once called Edo.

--The world's largest exporter of sugar is Cuba.

--There are no rivers in Saudi Arabia.

 

[Acrobat Angel]

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes and farts about thirteen times a day.

101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die during the course of the movie.

It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.

 

[BonoFox1]

--The only country to register zero births in 1983 was the 'Vatican City'.

--60% of all US potato products originate in Idaho.

--The D.C. in Washington D.C. stands for District of Columbia.

 

[Acrobat Angel]

On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

The longest word that may be typed on the top row of letters on a typewriter is 'typewriter'.

The longest word with no repetitions of letters is 'uncopyrightable'.

 

[BonoFox1]

--Rio de Janeiro translates to ' River of January'.

--Earth is the only planet not named after a God.

--On a clear night over 2 000 stars are visible to the naked eye.

 

[Acrobat Angel]

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple.

The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie

 

[BonoFox1]

--Brazil got its name from the nut, not the other way around.

--If you travel from east to west across the Soviet Union, you will cross seven time zones.

--Lighting strikes the Earth about 200 times a second.

 

[BonoFox1]

Oh my goodness... thank you thank you thank you.

It's a HUGE pet peeve of mine that most people think otherwise.

Well maybe this usless trivia is not so usless after all

 

[Acrobat Angel]

It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older

 

[BonoFox1]

--Hawaii's Mt Waialeale is the wettest place in the world - it rains about ninety per cent of the time, about 480 inches per annum.

--Yugoslavia is bordered by seven other countries.

--The world's longest fresh water beach is located in Canada.

 

[Acrobat Angel]

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down, hence the expression "to get fired."

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because, when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.