Useless Trivia

[MotherOfGizmo]

100,000 cubic feet of water pours over the Niagra Falls every second.

100,000 years ago, the human gestation period was 15 months.

19th century tooth powder often contained porcelain, smashed coral or cuttlefish bone.

2,500 lefties die each year using products designed for righties.

27% of U.S. male college students believe life is a meaningless existential ****.

4,000 people are injured by teapots each year.

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

54% of Americans prefer to fold their toilet paper rather than wad it.

82% of the workers on the Panama Canal suffered from malaria.

83% of people hit by lightning are men.

99% of the solar systems mass is concentrated in the sun.

[MotherOfGizmo]

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A baby in Florida was named: Truewilllaughinglifebuckyboomermanifestdestiny. His middle name is George James.

A baby is born every seven seconds.

A baby oyster is called a spat.

A barking dog is not usually a sign of aggressive behavior. Barking is the domesticated dogs' alarm to others in his pack--canine or human--that something is wrong or that an intruder is present. It is the silent, snarling or growling dog that is actually most dangerous.

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

A bear has 42 teeth.

A blind chameleon still changes colors to match his enviroment.

A bowling pin only has to tilt 7.5 degrees in order to fall down.

A building in Belgium was taxed if there was a street light on it...unless a statue of the Virgin Mary were place above it. Hence, there are no buildings in the city without a statue of the Virgin Mary.

A butterfly has 12,000 eyes.

A can of Spam is opened every 4 seconds.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A cat in Japan says neow.

A cat in Thailand says mao.

A cat is more inclined to watch TV than a dog, says the experts. (A cat relies more on vision, less on smell.)

A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.

A clue originally meant a ball of thread. Hence, one unravels the clues of a mystery.

A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.

A cow in Thailand says oo-ah.

A cow's only sweat glands are in its nose.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

A dog can suffer from tonsillitis, but not appendicitis. They don't have an appendix.

A dog can't hear the lowest key on a piano.

A dog in Bangkok says bahk-bahk.

A dog in East Africa says woo-woo.

A dog in Japan says wan-wan.

A dog in Russia says gahf-gahft.

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

[MotherOfGizmo]

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A duffer is Australian slang for a cattle thief.

A eunuch can't grow a beard.

A face-off in hockey used to be called a puck-off, but was soon changed for obvious reasons.

A fireplace is called a mantelpiece because at one time people hung their coats (or mantles) over the fireplace to dry them.

A fog belt 50 ft. deep over an area of 104 square miles contains no more moisture that single bucket of water.

A fully loaded supertanker travelling at normal speed takes a least 20 minutes to stop.

A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel.

A giraffe's blood pressure is at least twice that of a healthy man.

A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.

A group of bears is called a sleuth.

A group of kangaroos is called a mob.

A group of owls is called a parliament.

A group of ravens is called a murder.

A group of unicorns is called a blessing.

A hippopotamus can open its mouth wide enough to accommodate a 4-foot-tall child.

A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.

A hockey puck is three inches in diameter, one inch thick and weighs 5.5 to 6 ounces.

A jiffy is an actual unit of time. It is 1/100 of a second.

A kangaroo can only jump if its tail is touching the ground.

A law passed in Nebraska in 1912 really set down some hard rules of the road. Drivers in the country at night were required to stop every 150 yards, send up a skyrocket, then wait eight minutes for the road to clear before proceeding cautiously, all the while blowing their horn and shooting off flares.

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

A new book is published every 13 minutes in America.

A newborn expels its own body weight in waste every 60 hours.

[Barbde]

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A can of Spam is opened every 4 seconds.

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THAT amazes me!!

[MotherOfGizmo]

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LOL Barbie, maybe that was nursey opening the last can, she decided to try to curry it after all!

here's some more...

A newborn turkey chick has to be taught to eat, or it will starve.

A normal spider has about 600 silk glands on its body that it uses to spin its web.

A pencil will write in zero gravity, upside down and under water.

A person cannot taste food unless it is mixed with saliva.

A person swallows approx. 295 times while eating dinner.

A person usually chews a piece of gum 5,500 times before spitting it out.

A pig in Russia says ha-roo.

A pig in Thailand says oot-oot.

A pig Japan says moo-moo.

A poem written to celebrate a wedding is called a epithalamium.

A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.

A rat can go without water longer than a camel can.

A room with bath is perpetually reserved in one of Java's best hotels for the goddess of the South Sea, Njai Loro Kidul.

A rooster in Germany says ay-ee-ache-ache.

A scallop has 35 blue eyes.

A scorpion could survive for three weeks if it was embedded in a block of ice.

A seagull drinks salt water because it has special glands that filter out the salt.

A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.

A six-pound sea hare can lay 40,000 eggs in a single minute.

A sixteenth English law allowed men to beat their wives--but only before 10 p.m.

A snail's reproductive organs are in its head.

A sneeze can travel as fast as 100 miles per hour.

A sport practiced in ancient China consisted of placing two angry male quails in a large glass bowl and watching as the creatures clawed each other to death.

A square foot of lawn has 3,000 blades of grass. A square foot of fairway has 4,500. A putting green has close to 8,000.

A squid has 10 tentacles.

A stingray never actually sees the food as it eats, since its eyes are on top of its head and its mouth and nostrils are on the bottom.

A stretched out Slinky is 87 feet long.

[MotherOfGizmo]

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A thick glass more likely to crack if hot water is poured onto it than a thin one.

A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.

A whale's penis is called a dork.

Abdul Kassem Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia in the tenth century, carried his library with him wherever he went. The 117,000 volumes were carried by 400 camels trained to walk in alphabetical order.

About 10 million people share your birthday.

Abraham Lincoln was the only U.S. president ever granted a patent.

According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. The pushishment? The offense was punishable by hanging.

According to acupuncturists, there is a point on the head that you can press to control your appetite. It is located in the hollow just in front of the flap of the ear.

According to Archives of General Medicine, coffee drinkers have sex more frequently and enjoy it more than non-coffee drinkers.

According to Genesis 3:6, it was not Adam, but Eve who first ate the forbidden fruit.

According to scientists, gold exists on Mars, Mercury and Venus.

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.

According to the Food and Drug Administration, two out of five women in America dye their hair.

Acting was once considered to be evil, and the actors in the first English play to be performed in America were arrested.

Adolph Hitler was Time's Man of the Year for 1938.

African witch doctors only send their patients a bill if they expect them to live.

After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.

After his sight improved, Thomas Edison still preferred using Braille to more normal reading.

Alaska could hold the 21 smallest States.

Albert Einstein's last words will never be known. He spoke them in German, and the attending nurse did not speak German.

Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, also set a world water-speed record of over 70 miles an hour at the age of 72.

Alexander the Great made his soldiers keep clean-shaven so the enemy couldn't grab them by the beards and stab them with their swords.

Alfred Butts, the inventor of Scrabble, decided on the frequency and distribution of letters by analyzing the front page of the New York Times. He used a penknife to cut his first set of wooden Scrabble tiles.

Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button for it was eliminated during surgery.

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

[Bugaboo]

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A six-pound sea hare can lay 40,000 eggs in a single minute.

Show off!

[womanpraised]

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A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.


This cracks me up! I used to feel guilty about our fish being bored in the tank... now I dont have to worry about it.



HEY! I wonder fi all those animals can be taught to make sounds in English too!

[wannabethintoo]

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54% of Americans prefer to fold their toilet paper rather than wad it.

No way. I can't believe that.

[MotherOfGizmo]

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Here are some more

Allan Pinkerton, founder of the famous detective agency, died in 1884 when he stumbled, bit his own tongue, and was killed by the resulting gangrene.

Allied bombers were issued with Biro pens as fountain pens leaked at high altitude.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

Almost is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

Although Buddhism began and first flourished in India, it had by 1200 all but disappeared there, but had won huge numbers of followers in Ceylon, Burma, Thailand, China and Japan.

America once issued a 5-cent bill.

Americans eat 134 pounds of sugar a year.

Americans eat 18 billion hot dogs a year.

Americans spend around $3 billion for cat and dog food a year.

America's best selling ice cream flavor is vanilla.

Among the Jews of ancient Palestine, there was a specific dietary proscription against mousemeat.

An atomic clock can be made accurate to one second in every 150,000 years.

An egg’s shell accounts for about 12 percent of its weight.

An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.

An Oscar weighs seven pounds.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Animal breeders in Russia once claimed to have bred sheep with blue wool.

Anise is the scent on the artificial rabbit that is used in greyhound races.

Anyone who felled a hazel or apple tree was sentenced to death in ancient Ireland, where these trees were considered sacred.

Apart from its vulnerability to fire, human hair is almost impossible to destroy. It decays at a very slow rate, so slow that is almost non-disintegrative. It can't be destroyed by cold, change of climate, water, etc., and it is resistant to many kinds of acids and corrosive materials.

Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.

As early as 246 B.C., con men were at work aging manuscripts and selling them to book collectors as antiques.

Assuming Rudolph was in front, there are 40,320 ways to arrange the other eight reindeer.

At any one time there are 1,800 thunderstorms taking place in the world.

At any one time, there are 100 million phone conversations going on in the United States.

At one time, Martin Luther was the recognized authority on evicting the Devil. Satan pestered Luther with frequent visits and even showered him with hickory nuts on one occasion. The militant leader of the Reformation had other means of dealing with the Devil. In one encounter, Luther threw dung in the Devil's face. In another, he broke wind at him.

At sea level there are 2,000 pounds of air pressure on each square foot of your body.

Athletic supporters were introduced in 1874 to help bicycle riders as they pedaled over cobblestone roads. The term jock strap comes from these early bicycle jockeys.

Average lifespan of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

Average number of days a West German goes without washing his underwear: 7.

Average number of people airborne over the U.S. at any given hour: 61,000.

Average people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.

Babe was played by over 48 pigs.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They appear when the child is 2-6 years of age.

Bambi was originally published in 1929 in German.

Band-Aid bandages first appeared on the market in 1921, however, the little red string that is used to open the package did not get added until 1940.

Barbers at one time combined shaving and haircutting with bloodletting and pulling teeth. The white stripes on a field of red on a barber pole represent the bandages used in the bloodletting.

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

Basketball: The Miami Heat, The Utah Jazz, The Orlando Magic. Baseball: The Boston Red Sox, The Chicago White Sox. Hockey: The Colorado Avalanche, The Tampa Bay Lightning. Football: None.

Beaver Cleaver's locker number is 9.

Because it has no backbone, a seventy-pound octopus can squeeze through a hole the size of a silver dollar.

Because its tongue is too short for its beak, the toucan must juggle its food before swallowing it.

[Bugaboo]

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Americans eat 134 pounds of sugar a year.

Not this American! lol! The one about left handed people way at the top of the thread explains why my father refused to let me be left handed and forced me to use my right. I guess that's why I'm ambe...ambed...dang it...I can use both hands almost as equally as well.

[MotherOfGizmo]

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Not this American! lol! The one about left handed people way at the top of the thread explains why my father refused to let me be left handed and forced me to use my right. I guess that's why I'm ambe...ambed...dang it...I can use both hands almost as equally as well.

Around here they call that "amphibious"

BTW, I think that's a Catholic thing...I know the nuns would wack your knuckles with a ruler if they caught you writing with your left hand!

[Lady_Hawke]

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Wow I don't think it was useless trivia at all but a learning experience! Thanks for posting!

[MotherOfGizmo]

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Wow I don't think it was useless trivia at all but a learning experience! Thanks for posting!

Well thank you kind lady! I'll leave you with these for today...

Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

Because of Animal Crackers, many kids until they reach the age of ten, believe a bear is as tall as a giraffe.

Because of his poor health, Benjamin Franklin needed help to sign the Constitution. As he did so, tears streamed down his face.

Because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown farther if it is thrown west.

Because steel expands when it gets hot, the Eiffel Tower is 6 inches taller in the summer than in the winter.

Beelzebub, another name for the devil, is Hebrew for Lord of the Flies, and this is where the book's title comes from.

Beethoven poured ice water over his head when he sat down to create music, believing it stimulated his brain.

Before 1850 golf balls were made of leather and stuffed with feathers.

Before 1859, baseball umpires sat behind home plate in rocking chairs.

Before American football players venture on to the field, they don about 13 pounds of protective clothing.

Before Prohibition, Shlitz Brewery owned more property in Chicago than anyone else, except the Catholic church.

Before the Chinese takeover of Tibet in 1952, 25 percent of the males in the country were Buddhist monks.

Bela Lugosi was buried, as he requested, in his famous Dracula cape.

Benjamin Franklin compiled a list of more than 200 synonyms for drunk, including cherry-merry, nimptopsical and soaked.

Benjamin Franklin invented crop insurance.

Benjamin Franklin invented the rocking chair.

Birds played a role in aerial warfare during World War I. Because of their acute hearing, parrots were kept on the Eiffel Tower to warn of approaching aircraft long before the planes were heard or seen by human spotters.

Blue and white are the most common school colors.

Blue whales weigh as much as 30 elephants and are as long as three Greyhound buses.

Bookkeeper and bookkeeping are the only words in the English language with three consecutive double letters.

Bookstore owners in Raleigh, North Carolina, contend that the volume most often stolen year after year is the Bible.

Brasco is Australian slang for lavatory.

Breath, by Samuel Beckett, was first performed in April, 1970. The play lasts thirty seconds, has no actors, and no dialogue.

Bulls are color blind.

Butterflies taste with their hind feet.

Buzz Aldrin was the second man to set foot on the Moon. Moon was also his mother's maiden name.

By law, employees do not have to wash hands after sneezing.

By some unknown means, an iguana can end its own life.

By the way, the Canary Islands were so named because of the many wild dogs which roamed it when the Romans landed there. (Recall, dog in Latin was canis...so they called the islands canaria insula--the island of dogs.)

Cacao, the main ingredient of chocolate is the most pest-ridden tree in the jungle.

Calling a puppy to punish it teaches the dog not to come when it's called. It's best to reward your dog by bringing it to you, and to punish it by sending away.

Camel meat is a great delicacy in Egypt.

Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world.

Canada's coastline is six times longer than that of Australia.

Cashews are botanically classified as the seed of a tropical and semitropical fruit called the cashew apple.

Cat urine glows under a black light.

Cats spend over half their lives asleep.

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

Chaetophobia: a fear of hair.

Charles Dickens was an insomniac. He believed he had the best chance of getting some sleep if he positioned himself exactly in the middle of the bed which must at all times be pointed in a northerly direction.

Chickens can't swallow while they are upside down.

Children grow faster in the springtime.

China claims to possess the world’s smallest town—Yumen. This town, in Tibet, has only three residents--an elderly man and his two daughters. The town has a local council, chief executive and an official seal.

Cicadas have their hearing organs in their stomachs, at the base of the abdomen. Crickets have their hearing organs in their knees, or, more precisely, in the oval slit of their forelegs.

[Bugaboo]

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I know the nuns would wack your knuckles with a ruler if they caught you writing with your left hand!

Yikes! I think a nun will wack anything if it stays still long enough. Lol! j/k! My dad would make me sit on my left hand or he'd smack it. I don't remember much of it but I do remember the struggle! Lol!