The Useless Trivia Thread.

[Dragon2 0]

Just post your useless trivia because we all wanna know. 


I'll start...

If you say "Darth Vader" and record it then play it backwords Itll sound like "radio thud"

[JakeMD 107]

the square root of a piece of pie, is well, no one knows exactly!!

[LarksTonguesInAspic 28]

Aerosmith almost bought the plane Lynyrd Skynyrd crashed in.

Jimi Hendrix agreed to to join Emerson, Lake, and Palmer shortly before his death.

Elvis, Bill Cosby, Abe Lincoln, and Tom Hanks are all related.

Triskadekaphobia is fear of the number 13.

Howie Mandel is a germaphobe who doesn't shake hands.

[Easy Bakes 253]

The average human scalp contains between 120,000 and 150,000 hairs.

But some far far less

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Gymnaphobia is the excessive fear of naked people.

[Easy Bakes 253]

The only member of the  ZZ Top that did not have a beard, was named Frank

 Frank Beard  

[LarksTonguesInAspic 28]

$1 Million in $100 US bills weighs 22 lbs, or 10 kilos.

41 minutes into the original Wizard of Oz movie, you can see the feet of a dead electrician.

The ancient Romans used condoms made of leaves.

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If you eat a polar bear liver, you will die of vitamin A poisoning. As a carnivore which feeds largely upon fish-eating carnivores, the polar bear ingests large amounts of vitamin A, which is stored in its liver; in the past, humans have been poisoned by eating the livers of polar bears.

[LarksTonguesInAspic 28]

3000 year old lotus seeds from the Pyramids were successfully made to sprout.

Seawater contains trace amounts of gold.

The offspring of jet pilots are 70% daughters.

The gender of alligator eggs is determined by temperature.

The first light bulbs had filaments made of coconut fiber- they lasted longer than modern bulbs.

A stone with Hebrew characters ca. 100 AD was unearthed... in Bat Creek, Tennessee.

The role of Han Solo in Star Wars was originally written for Tom Selleck.

John Belushi has a grave in suburban Chicago, but he's not in it.

Who's buried in Grant's Tomb? No one, he lies elsewhere as well.

The Nazis nearly built a nuclear bomb, but one sly scientist convinced them they couldn't. It was later found their design would have worked.

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-The original game of "Monopoly" was circular.

-It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.

-One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year.

-Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year.

-Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.

-A snail can sleep for 3 years.

-The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

-More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

-Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

-Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."

-According to tests made at the Institute for the Study of Animal Problems in Washington, D.C., dogs and cats, like people, are either right-handed or left-handed --- that is, they favor either their right or left paws.

-A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.

-Birds do not sleep in their nests. They may occasionally nap in them, but they actually sleep in other places.

-Butterflies taste with their hind feet.

-Only female mosquitoes bite.

-If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

-Ants stretch when they wake up. They also appear to yawn in a very human manner before taking up the tasks of the day.

-In the United States, a pound of potato chips cost two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.

-Caesar salad has nothing to do with any of the Caesar. It was first concocted in a bar in Tijuana, Mexico, in the 1920's.

-A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.

-Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

-You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

-Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.

-A standard wire coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened

-"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

-Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.

-Cat's urine glows under a black light.

-The average ear of corn has eight hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.

-The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.

-Chrysler built B-29's engines that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant called Diamond Star.

-Almonds are members of the peach family.  

-The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.

-The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 Oz.

-The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

-Duddley DoRight's Horses name was "Horse."

-Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into view. When He died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again.

-Charlie Brown's father was a barber.

-Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

-Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is number 47. Until August 7, 1953, congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.

-The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.

-Ingrown toenails are hereditary.

-The largest city in the United States with a one syllable name is Flint, Michigan.

-On the cartoon show 'The Jetsons', Jane is 33 years old and her daughter Judy is 15.

-Only humans and horses have hymens.

-The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.

-Spot, Data's cat on Star Trek: The Next Generation, was played by six different cats.

-"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."

-A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer.

-If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

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

-Mr. Snuffleupagas' first name was Alyoisus.

-There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.  

-The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatan-gihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokai-whenuakitanatahu, a New Zealand hill.

-Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "L.A."

-A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

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

-Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

-There are 22 stars surrounding the mountain on the Paramount Pictures logo.

-In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

-Alfred Hitch***** didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.

-The Mongol emperor Genghis Khan's original name was Temujin. 

-Geller and Huchra have made three-dimensional maps of the distribution of galaxies. In each layer of the map some galaxies are grouped together in such a way that they resemble a human being.

-Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.

-Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

-Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth ... and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, "His name is Mudd."

-The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.

-In 1969, the last Corvair was painted gold.

-Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth.

-The only real people to be a Pez head are Betsy Ross, Paul Revere and Daniel Boone.

-Steely Dan got their name from a sexual device depicted in the book 'The Naked Lunch'.

-Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.

-Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.

-A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

-The Ramses brand condom is named after phaoroh Ramses II, who fathered over 160 children.

-When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.

-A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

-A pig's penis is shaped like a corkscrew.

-A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.

-A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

-A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.

-A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

-On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.

-It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

-"Evian" spelled backwards is "naive".

-"embargo" spelled backwards is "o grab me"

-The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

-Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.

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

-The A&W of root beer fame stands for Allen and Wright.

-A baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called a spat.  

-Lake Nicaragua boasts the only fresh-water sharks in the entire world.

-There are four cars and ten lightposts on the back of a ten-dollar bill.

-It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls without human faces.

-Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.

-The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

-St. Paul, Minnesota was originally called Pigs Eye after a man who ran a saloon there.

-The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.

-Moon was Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name.

-In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run.

-The Grateful Dead were once called The Warlocks.

-Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy.

-The Skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their radios newscast about the wreck.

-The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.

-In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.  

-The "L.L." in L.L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood.

-The original fifty cent piece in Australian decimal currency had around $2.00 worth of silver in it before it was replaced with a less expensive twelve sided coin.

-The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.

-Alexander the Great was an epileptic.

-The lead singer of The Knack, famous for "My Sharona," and Jack Kevorkian's lead defense attorney are brothers, Doug & Jeffrey Feiger.

-The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."

-The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey" came from when they had old cannons like ones used in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they would crack and break off... Thus the saying.

-S.O.S. doesn't stand for "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls" -- It was just chosen by an 1908 international conference on Morse Code because the letters S and O were easy to remember and just about anyone could key it and read it, S = dot dot dot, O = dash dash dash..

-Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 1875.

-When a female horse and male donkey mate, the offspring is called a mule, but when a male horse and female donkey mate, the offspring is called a hinny.

-A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.

-Woodpecker scalps, porpoise teeth and giraffe tails have all been used as money.

-The Los Angeles Rams were the first U.S. football team to introduce emblems on their helmets.

-The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.

-Slinkys were invented by an airplane mechanic; he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use of one of the springs.

-There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

-Octopi have gardens.

-Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.

-When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.

-Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.

-The pitches that Babe Ruth hit for his last-ever home run and that Joe DiMaggio hit for his first-ever home run where thrown by the same man.

-To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.

-During conscription for WWII, there were nine documented cases of men with three testicles.

-Both Hitler and Napoleon were missing one testicle.

-Stalin's left foot had webbed toes, and his left arm is noticeably shorter than his right.

-Swans are the only birds with penises.

-Some carnivores, rodents, bats and insectivores have a penis bone, called a baculum.

-A barnacle has the largest penis of any other animal in the world in relation to its size.

-The allele for six fingers and toes is dominant in humans.

-The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.

-Medieval knights put sharkskin on their sword handles to give them a more secure grip; they would dig the sharp scales into their palms.

-Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

-The only planet without a ring is earth.

-If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.

-The raised reflective dots in the middle of highways are called Botts dots.

-A group of unicorns is called a blessing.

-Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."

-A group of frogs is called an army.

-A group of rhinos is called a crash.

-A group of kangaroos is called a mob.

-A group of whales is called a pod.

-A group of geese is called a gaggle.

-A group of ravens is called a murder.

-A group of larks is called an exaltation.

-A group of owls is called a parliament.

-Starfish don't have brains.

-Shrimps' hearts are in their heads.

-Roy Rogers' real name was Leonard Slye

-The derivation of the word trivia comes from the Latin "tri-" + "via", which means three streets. This is because in ancient times, at an intersection of three streets in Rome, they would have a type of kiosk where ancillary information was listed. You might be interested in it, you might not, hence they were bits of "trivia."

-Jellyfish have no brains, yet they can tell light from dark, and sence movement.

-The term 'flying on cloud 9' originates from military flights. Cloud types are classified as numbers... with 'cloud 9' being a very tall thunderstorm. Jets have to climb to an extremely high altitude in order to fly over 'cloud 9.

-A dogs sense of smell is one of the keenest in nature. If a pot of stew was cooking on a stove, a human would smell the stew, while the dog could smell the beef, carrots, peas, potatoes, spices, and all the other individual ingredients in the stew. In fact, if you unfolded and laid out the delicate membranes from inside a dogs nose, the membranes would be larger than the dog itself.

-Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

-The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.

-Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.

-The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

-The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

-A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

-American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first class.

-Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

-Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

-Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

-The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer. So did the first 'Marlboro Man'.

-Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

-All U.S. presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like to be seen wearing them in public.

-Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

-Pearls melt in vinegar.

-It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

-The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

-Turtles can breathe through their butts

-A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.

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

-A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

-Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

-Cats have over 100 vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.

-February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

-In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

-If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

-If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.

-Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

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

-Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

-Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

-Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

-The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

-The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

-There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

-There are more chickens than people in the world.

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

-The State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work is Alaska.

-The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% (now get this...) The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%

-The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400

-The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000

-Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

-The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

-The youngest pope was 11 years old.

-The first novel ever written on a typewriter was Tom Sawyer.

-Those San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.

-In Massachusetts it is illegal to put tomatoes in clam chowder

-Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades - King David, Hearts - Charlemagne, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Diamonds - Julius Caesar

-If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

Conception occurs more often in December than any other month.

-Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of  their birthplace

-Honey is the only food that never spoils Edible honey has been found in the tombs of pharaohs.

-There are more collect calls on Father's day than any other day of the year.

-Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny)  was allergic to carrots.

-In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase "Goodnight, sleep tight".

-It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month we know today as the honeymoon.

-In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's"

-Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle" is the phrase inspired by this practice.

-In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden.... and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.

-Your fingernail has the same ingredients as fly poop

-In a survey, most US kids ages 8-12 could name more brands of beer than presidents.

-On July 4th, 1776 King George III of England wrote in his journal: "nothing of importance happened today."

-George Washington has had 1 state, 7 mountains, 8 streams, 9 colleges, 10 lakes, 33 counties, and 121 towns named after him

-pigeons have three eyelids

-there are 3x10 to the 33rd power (3,000 quintillion) individual living things are on the planet, of these 75% are bacteria and 0.00000000000000000000013 % are humans

-the weight of the sun's light on the surface of Earth: 2 pounds per square mile.

-a typical banana travels 4,000 miles before being eaten

-Disney World is twice the size of Manhattan

-it took from the biginning of time untill 1804 for the population of the world to reach 1 billion , but only 126 years for it to reach 2 billion, in 1930

-1 billion people lined up side by side would stretch 568,200 miles

-TV Guide was the first magazine to sell 1 billion copies (1974)

- over 1 billion people on earth are between 15 and 24 years old

-one styrofoam cup contains 1 billion molecules of CFC's, which are harmfull to the ozone layer

-to cook 1 billion pounds of pasta you would need 2 billion gallons of water,enough to fill 75,000 Olympic sized swimming pools

-first billion dollar company in the world- United States steel in 1901

-ratio of billionares to the rest of the U.S. population- 1 to 4.5 million

-a single plant can release 1 billion grains of pollen

-1 spoonfull of yogurt contains 1 billion live and active bacteria

-there are 1 billion red blood cells in two to three drops of blood

-the Earth's oceans will completely disappear in 1 billion years, due to rising temperatures from a maturing sun.

-President Jose Maria Reina Barrios of Guatemala was assassinated at 8:00PM on February 8, 1898, at No. 8 on 8th street with a .38 caliber revolver. His assassin was shot 8 times.

-All the people in the world working day and night for 1,000,000 years could not arrange five six-sided blocks into all of their possible combinations.

-In Oklahoma, it's illegal to take a bite out of someone else's hamburger.

-Pink was the favorite color of Empress Elizabeth of Russia, daughter of Peter the Great. During her rule from 1761-1762, she issued a decree that anyone else who wore this color would be put to death.

-It is illegal to throw bales of hay out of second floor windows in Baltimore (however third floor doors are alright)

-Taking a Lion to the movies is prohibited in Baltimore

-It's illegal harass Oysters in Maryland.

-about 80 people shoot at the Goodyear blimps every year.

-Worldwide 20% of all married couples are first cousins

-number of U.S. marine wild life sanctuaries where fishing is illegal: zero

-the only American prasied by Hitler in Mein Kampf: Henry Ford

-In Brooklyn, it's illegal to let a dog sleep in your bathtub

-50% of the world's population lives in temperate zones, which make up 7% of the planet.

-Twinkies are 68% air.

-in the U.S. more steel is used for bottle caps than for cars.

-on an average day four people call Graceland and ask to talk to Elvis

-sponges form 99% of marine life

-when glass breaks the cracks travel at 3,000 mph

-gold is so rare that all the gold produced in the last 500 hundred years would fit into a 50 foot cube that would whiegh 500 tons

-70% of the earth is covered in water, but only 1% is drinkable

-earth travels through space at 66,600 mph, 8 times faster than a bullet

-Lemon Pledge has more lemons than Country Time Lemonade

-rain falls at about 22 mph

-only 6% percent of coupons printed are redeemed

-the saguaro cactus can grow four stories tall, wheigh 10 tons, and live 200 years

-there's a producing oil well beneath the Oklahoma state capital building

-number of women who believe they've been abducted by aliens: 13,528

-number of those women who believe the aliens kept their underwear: 1,501

-The water a nuclear powerplant gives off is less radioactive than beer.

-Police in Wichita, Kansas once arrested a 22-year-old man at an airport hotel after he tried to pass two (counterfeit) $16 bills.

-A company trying to continue its five-year perfect safety record showed its workers a film aimed at encouraging the use of safety goggles on the job. According to Industrial Machinery News, the film's depiction of gory industrial accidents was so graphic that twenty-five workers suffered minor injuries in their rush to leave the screening room. Thirteen others fainted, and one man required seven stitches after he cut his head falling off a chair while watching the film.

- A bus carrying five passengers was hit by a car in St. Louis, but by the time police arrived on the scene, fourteen pedestrians had boarded the bus and had begun to complain of whiplash injuries and back pain.

-Swedish business consultant Ulf af Trolle labored 13 years on a book about Swedish economic solutions. He took the 250-page manuscript to be copied, only to have it reduced to 50,000 strips of paper in seconds when a worker confused the copier with the shredder.

-A convict broke out of jail in Washington DC, then a few days later accompanied his girlfriend to her trial for robbery. At lunch, he went out for a sandwich. She needed to see him, and thus had him paged. Police officers recognized his name and arrested him as he returned to the courthouse in a car he had stolen over the lunch hour.

-Police in Radnor, Pennsylvania once interrogated a suspect by placing a metal colander on his head and connecting it with wires to a photocopy machine. The message "He's lying" was placed in the copier, and police pressed the copy button each time they thought the suspect wasn't telling the truth. Believing the "lie detector" was working, the suspect confessed.

-When two service station attendants in Ionia, Michigan, refused to hand over the cash to an intoxicated robber, the man threatened to call the police. They still refused, so the robber called the police and was arrested.

- A Los Angeles man who later said he was "tired of walking," stole a steamroller and led police on a 5 mph chase until an officer stepped aboard and brought the vehicle to a stop.

-the Earth spins 1,000 mph faster at the equator than at the poles

-only 6% of Earth is sutible for growing crops

- 4 tons of grapes are needed to make one ton of rasins

-the average mail carrier delivers 2,300 pieces of mail to over 500 different addresses each day

-a honey bee would need to fly 50,000 miles to collect enough nectar to make one pound of honey

-the George Washington bridge in New York city is 3 feet longer on the hottest day of summer than on the coldest day of winter

-the average person's kidneys filter about 425 gallons of blood each day

-A nonsmoking bartender inhales the equivalent of 36 cigarettes in an 8 hour shift.

-floods cause more death and destruction than any other natural disasters

-a hippo's stomach is 10 feet long and can hold 400 pounds of food

-the Cairo Opera House was destroyed by fire in 1970...The Cairo fire station was in the same building

-a mouse has more bones than a human

-a woodpeckers beak moves at 100 mph

-a New Yorker could eat out every night of their life and not go to the same place twice

-13 boxes of Jello are sold every second

-The word booger comes from the Yiddish word "boocshklempter." Rough translation: "candy of the nose"

-both men and women experience erections when they dream, no matter what they are dreaming about.

-a chicken has only 24 taste buds, the least of any animal with a sense of taste

-If you unwound the cables of one of the world's largest suspension bridges, they would reach around the world several times

-it is impossible to fold a piece of paper in half more than 8 times, no matter how big the piece of paper is.

-Chocolate milk contains carageenan, better known as red algae

-there is more processing power in a cell phone than there was on the Saturn V rockets used to go to the moon

-the paper used to make american money is made from denim

-there are at least four US federal laws that mention Adobe Photoshop by name

-the first pornographic photo ever was taken in 1848, depicting a woman with a horse

-Former Sony chairman Matikaya Yohama wanted to name the then new compact disk a “Shiny Fun Music Circle.” Only after US investors begged him otherwise did he agree to call the new technology a Compact Disc!

-Many claim the lottery is gender-biased, citing the fact that twice as many men win as women.

-The first fraternities weren't drinking or social clubs at all, they were fighting/survival clubs. Groups of male students in ancient Greece banded together to protect themselves from the Persians who would frequently raid their shores.

-Many scientists believe gravity is weakening every year.

-Muhammad Ali was originally considered for the role of Superman in the 1978 film.

-Before the English named it New York, they considered naming the captured Dutch city 'New Hoggington' in honor of Duke Hoggington, the King's nephew.

-On average, a $50 bill gets spent 9 times a week. Of the 10 people who’s hands it touches, 45% will be Asian.

-Fifty Cent earned his nickname by stealing two quarters from his local deli. This may not seem like a big deal, but “quarters” in street lingo means “cash registers".

-The world's first two automobiles crashed into each other while their owners were driving around Hamburg, Germany.

-Wearing a wristwatch is considered homosexual in Thailand.

-George W. Bush was given Co-Writer credit for Michael Moore's Documentary "Farhenheit 9/11". He was also actually nominated for a Golden Globe in the Most Outstanding Writing for a Comedy or Musical film. He lost to Charlie Kaufman.

-Bald men are more evolved than hairy men. Or so says the Skyn Institute of Germany, which has been researching mankind’s evolution from ape to man.

-Gay men's armpits smell different from striaght men's due to different pheromones in the sweat produced there.

-The porcupine is the only animal that never poops, it exudes waste from his pores.

-Mario of Super Mario Brothers was originally called "Jumpman"

Half and half is usually only 40% cream. 50% is often enough to send an healthy child to the hospital.

-A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day.

-93% of all greeting cards are purchased by women.

-An average home creates more pollution than does the average car.

-An office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.

-Approximately 18 billion disposable diapers end up in landfills each year. These diapers can takes as long as 500 years to finally decompose.

-Barbie's boyfriend Ken was not sold in India until recently because it clashed with the traditional arranged marriage.

-Common pesticides such as roach, termite and flea insecticide can be found in the bodies of majority of Americans.

-Cow is a Japanese brand of shaving foam.

-Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks.

[Duke87 1,070]

(doesn't all fit in one post)

-Energy is being wasted if a toaster is left plugged in after use.

-Every second, two Barbie dolls are sold somewhere in the world.

-Most people you meet (no matter the language they speak) will understand the word 'OK'

-A goldfish can live up to 45 years

-No one has every seen a live giant squid, just dead ones.

-A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.

-Hundreds of years ago, only the wealthy people used to wear underwear.

-Research has indicated that indoor pollution is 10 times more toxic than outdoor pollution.

-Research indicates that babies who suck on pacifiers are more prone to ear aches.

-A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

-40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

-Every person has a unique tongue print.

-The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino.

-315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

-During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance.

-On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

-Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If they were captured, the cards could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.

-Most lipstick contains fish scales.

-Dr. Seuss actually pronounced Seuss such that it sounded like Sue-ice.

-Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

-LA has more cars than all of Russia.

-Las Vegas has more hotel rooms than Canada

-The first barometer was developed by Evangelista Torricelli in 1643, using water as the liquid. He then mounted it in the village square so the townspeople could see it. But they made him take it down because every time the liquid dropped down, the weather turned bad.

That's all just some simply copy paste. I have an .rtf file full of these. I removed a few of the more explicit ones, though.

[LarksTonguesInAspic 28]

Ouch, my head hurts now...

[masochist 111]

Duke87, just a question: do you by any chance read Uncle John's Bathroom Reader?

[Duke87 1,070]

Originally posted by: masochist Duke87, just a question: do you by any chance read Uncle John's Bathroom Reader?quote>

Nope. Most of those are from the internet (various "fun fact" sites), others are my own additions of things I just happen to know, for various reasons.

[topcliff 1]

Here's a few more:

In Baltimore, Maryland, it is not legal to take a lion to the movies.

By manipulating a few genes of a virus, researchers at MIT have been able to get this virus to grow and assemble itself in such a way that it functions as a battery!

In the ant kingdom some ants are soldiers, or army ants. These soldier ants are so genetically designed to fight, pinch, clamp and sting that their giant pinchers prevent them from feeding themselves. They must rely on other ants to feed them.

In Singapore, it is illegal to sell or own chewing gum.

Vikings used the skulls of their enemies as drinking vessels.

In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits.

It's illegal to slurp soup in New Jersey.

Among the Abipone people of Paraguay, individuals who abstain from alcohol are thought to be "cowardly, degenerate and stupid."

While in some countries the penalty for driving while intoxicated can be death (yes, death), in Uruguay intoxication is a legal excuse for having an accident while driving. "Please believe me officer, I really was drunk."

There is an ant in Brazil that has a gland which causes the ant to explode like a bomb, spraying a sticky toxic goo on everybody nearby. Now that's some hard core biology!

A new study found that male monkeys will give up their juice rewards in order to ogle pictures of female monkey's bottoms. The way the experiment was set up, the act is akin to paying for the images, the researchers say.

Prairie dogs, those little pups popping in and out of holes on vacant lots and rural rangeland, are talking up a storm. They have different "words" for tall human in yellow shirt, short human in green shirt, coyote, deer, red-tailed hawk and many other creatures.

Who'd have thought that?

[screamingman12 30]

MIT doesn't have a football team

GOLF doesn't actually stand for "Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden" the word is derived from the Dutch Kolf, meaning a stick, club or bat. 

The toothpick was first demonstrated at the Union Oyster House, Boston, MA

UNIX is a registered trademark of AT&T

Half of most false teeth have some form of radioactivity

The European Space Agency's Olympus was the only satellite to be destroyed by a meteor

New York's Penn Station has an Airport code: ZYP

In the summer of 1998 two reporters for the San Francisco Chronicle—one riding in the Muni Metro tunnel and one on foot on the surface—held a race through downtown, with the walking reporter emerging the winner.

A bowl of lime Jell-O, when hooked up to an EEG machine, exhibited movement which is virtually identical to the brain waves of a healthy adult man or woman.

The Detroit streetcar system was temporairly saved by the auto industry in the nintteen-teens

Amtrak is the only railroad that allows shipment of body parts

The smallest county in the US is New York County, also known as Manhattan

Julius Ceasar cried in front of a statue of Alexander the Great

All the dirt from the foundation to build the World Trade Center in NYC was dumped into the Hudson River to form the community now known as Battery City Park.

In 2005, nearly 170 languages were spoken in New York City

Heavy water (D2O) is made with deuterium, a heavy form of hydrogen

[Duke87 1,070]

In Baltimore, Maryland, it is not legal to take a lion to the movies. quote>

UNIX is a registered trademark of AT&Tquote>

I guess you people didn't bother to read my huge list. I already said both of those.

All the dirt from the foundation to build the World Trade Center in NYC was dumped into the Hudson River to form the community now known as Battery City Park. quote>

It's called "Battery Park City". Get it right.

[Mikemat5150 0]

Antarctica is the worlds largest Desert. It's true it gets so little precipitation it's considered a desert.

[topcliff 1]

Here's some random phobias for you guys:

Pteronophobia- Fear of being tickled by feathers.

Zemmiphobia- Fear of the great mole rat.

Consecotaleophobia- Fear of chopsticks.

Dextrophobia- Fear of objects at the right side of the body.

Eleutherophobia- Fear of freedom.

Genuphobia- Fear of knees.

Lutraphobia- Fear of otters.

Papaphobia- Fear of the Pope.

Interesting, aren't they?

[Easy Bakes 253]

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.