Useless Trivia

[Bugaboo]

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

I gotta find the other 197 synonyms...they'd come in handy in our drinkin' thread over in the Supporting Members forum!

[Miss Phode]

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A pig in Swedish says nuff-nuff.

That's all I got.

[Barbde]

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Quote:
Originally Posted by MotherOfGizmo

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




No way. I can't believe that.Today 02:50 PM

No way. I can't believe that.

What.... you WAD yours??

[2Bthin]

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Quote:
Originally Posted by MotherOfGizmo

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




No way. I can't believe that.Today 02:50 PM

What.... you WAD yours??

I think somebody should do a poll on that .

[MotherOfGizmo]

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They already did one a while back in the Women's forum, if you can believe that!

[MotherOfGizmo]

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Here we go again....

Cinderella is known as Tuna in Finland.

City with the most Rolls Royces per capita: Hong Kong.

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

Clocks made before 1687 had only one hand, and hour hand.

Coca-Cola was originally green.

Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.

Confucius was the eleventh child of a 70-year-old soldier.

Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment (Prohibition).

Copies of the Bible and the Koran small enough to fit in a walnut shell have been written by hand.

Cost of raising a medium size dog to the age of 11: $6,400.

Cranberry Jell-0 is the only kind that contains real fruit.

Crocodiles and alligators are surprisingly fast on land. Although they are rapid, they are not agile; so if you ever find yourself chased by one, run in a zigzag line. You'll lose him or her every time.

Crocodiles can see underwater because they have a semi-transparent third eyelid that slides into place when necessary.

Crocodiles kill 2,000 people each year.

Dante, Christopher Marlow, Daniel Defoe, Andrew Marvell and Lord Byron all acted as government spies.

Denmark has the oldest national flag in the world.

Dog food is the most profitable food on the market. People spend four times as much on dog food as they do on baby food.

Dog kennel is redundant. The Latin canis (dog) served as the base for the word canile (dog house.) This word entered French as kenel, which the English changed to kennel. Thus, a kennel couldn't technically be for anything else but dogs.

DOG TRIVIA

Doggie urine damages grass, shrubs and other plant life due to urine burn. It's caused by ammonia and urea contained in canine urine. The urine makes the soil too acidic.

Dogs and humans are the only animals with prostates.

Dogs aren't as mean in England as in other places. A United Nations survey showed that, based upon the fact that fewer British mailmen are bitten by dogs there than in any other nation.

Dogs don't sweat with their tongues as is often said. The only sweat glands of significance on a dog are in the soles of their feet. Dogs cool themselves primarily by rapid breathing, which is why they pant after running. When a dog sticks its tongue out, he does so because it is moist and evaporation helps to cool it...not because he is sweating.

Dogs in the wild seldom, if ever, bark. Only those dogs who have come into contact with humans or other domesticated dogs exhibit this behavior. Wolves, foxes, wild dogs and other canines only howl, growl, snarl, yelp or whine, but do not bark. The reason for this is not known, but it is believed the barking sounds of domesticated dogs are an attempt to imitate human sounds.

Dogs might nip at a toad, but they won't eat them. The experts suspect that there's something emitted from the toad's skin that makes the dog let go instantly.

Dogs put their heads out of car windows out of visual curiosity. (They like a cool breeze, too.) But blowing in a dog's ear is another matter. It can be painful because of the sound of the blowing--the frequency drives them nuts.

Dogs tilt their heads when you talk to them because they want you to know they are listening-- without staring at you (as that's a sign of aggression.) The tilt might also aide them in seeing us better, as each of their eyes sees half the world with little overlap in the fields of vision.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

Dolphins swim in circles while they sleep with the eye on the outside of the circle open to keep watch for predators. After a certain amount of time they reverse and swim in the opposite direction with the opposite eye open.

Dr. James Barry qualified as a doctor, enlisted in the army and became an Inspector-General. It was only at the time of his death in 1865 that it was discovered he was actually a woman.

Dr. Seuss and Kurt Vonnegut went to college together.

Dr. Seuss pronounced Seuss so it rhymed with rejoice.

Drivers tend to drive faster when other cars are around.

Dry fish food can make goldfish constipated.

Duffel bags are named after a town of Duffel, Belgium, where they were first made.

During a severe windstorm or rainstorm the Empire State Building may sway several feet to either side.

During Abraham Lincoln's campaign for the presidency, a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat named Valentine Tapley from Pike County, Missouri, swore that he would never shave again if Abe were elected. Tapley kept his word and his chin whiskers went unshorn from November 1860 until he died in 1910, attaining a length of twelve feet six inches.

During its lifetime an oyster changes its sex from male to female and back several times.

[MotherNature]

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Very Interesting, but just a few thoughts....

Lady barnacles must be a happy bunch.

I'm more dangerous when I am snarling and growling, too.

Lightening hits more men because God punishes sinners.

I'd like to meet the guy that verified the toilet paper survey and ask his methods.

Bo Pilgrim could cross a hen with a sea hare and make a FORTUNE!

[MotherOfGizmo]

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LOL. Some things, like the T.P. issue are really just TMI in my opinion!

[MotherOfGizmo]

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Here's some more for ya!

During the 1918-1919 season, the Stanley Cup playoffs were halted by the worldwide influenza epidemic.

During the film Don Juan, John Barrymore delivers a grand total of 191 kisses to a variety of different women, at the rate of one every 53 seconds.

During the high Middle Ages, there was, on the average, a church for every 200 people.

During the Middle Ages, nearly a third of every year was given over to religious holidays.

During the Renaissance, fashionable aristocratic Italian women shaved their hair several inches back from their natural hairlines.

During the time of Peter the Great, any Russian man who had a beard was required to pay a special tax.

During World War II, Americans had the idea of fitting bats with miniature bombs that would then be dropped as they flew over the enemy.

During World War II, U.S. bakers were ordered to stop selling sliced bread for the duration of the war on January 18, 1943. Only whole loaves were made available to the public. It was never explained how this action helped the war effort.

E is the most frequently used letter in the English alphabet, Q the least.

Each day 100 or more whales are killed by fishermen.

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

Each square inch of human skin consists of sixty hairs. Not to mention 90 oil glands. And 19,000 sensory cells.

Edward III passed a law stopping people eating more than two meals a day.

Eggs are sold on bits of string in Korea.

Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire.

Elephants have been known to remain standing after they die.

Emus can't walk backwards.

Enough beer is poured every Saturday across America to fill the Orange Bowl.

Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter e.

Eskimos don't gamble.

Even well educated people use only about one percent of the possible words in the English language when talk to each other.

Every continent in the world contains a city called Rome.

Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the U.S. treasury.

Every hour, 12,500 puppies are born in the United States.

Every major league baseball team in the U.S. buys about eighteen thousand baseballs each season.

Every minute in the U.S. six people turn 17.

Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie.

Every year in France there is a Thieves Fair, where people are encouraged to try to steal things from the stalls--if they think they can get away with it.

Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.

Every year, Americans dispose of 1.6 billion pens.

Fine turkey and honeycomb are terms used for different qualities and textures of sponges.

First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.

Flies take off backwards.

Florida's beaches lose 20 million cubic yards of sand annually.

foods that increase in nutritional value as they decompose.

For a short time in 1967, the American Typers Association made a new punctuation mark that was a combination of the question mark and an exclamation point called an interrobang. It was rarely used and hasn't been seen since.

For a while Frederic Chopin, the composer and pianist, wore a beard on only one side of his face. It does not matter, he explained. My audience sees only my right side.

For several centuries, women used to rub crushed strawberries on their breasts in the belief that it would enlarge them.

Forty-seven Bibles are sold or distributed throughout the world every minute of the day.

France has the highest per capita consumption of cheese.

Fresca, the soft drink, had problems when it was sold in Mexico. There, Fresca is slang for lesbian.

Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the mercury thermometer.

Gale warnings were first issued in 1861.

Gandhi slept naked with women in order to test his mastery of celibacy.

Gene Cernan was the last man on the moon.

General U.S. Grant owned slaves.

George Bernard Shaw refused an Oscar in 1938, for the screenplay Pygmalion.

George Gershwin suffered from chronic constipation for most of his life.

[Bugaboo]

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Dogs and humans are the only animals with prostates.

I'm pretty sure I don't have a prostate.

Lol!

[MotherOfGizmo]

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LOL, and I'm pretty sure that Gizmo doesn't either! (maybe they should have been a little more specific?)

[Barbde]

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A whale's penis is called a dork.

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OMG!!! THAT is my favorite "term of endearment" for people when they are being......... well, DORKS! LOLOL!!