Random Trivia AKA "did you know?"

[Tom]

Can each of you post some random trivia here? I love trivia.

Did you know that in basketball you can play 4 on 5 ( or even 3,2,1 vs 5 ) if you get into deep enough foul trouble?

Please post your random trivia

[C P]

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Hi Tom - being a Brit I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about! LOL but I was always told that in the card game of cribbage (crib) it is impossible to score 19!

CP

[2BME]

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I hope pop-culture trivia is copacetic....

Harrison Ford actually used a staple gun and stapled his fedora on his head to keep it in place during the filming of all 4 Indiana Jones movies.

[Lisa]

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People who can roll their tongues contain a dominant allele
for tongue rolling. If people do not contain the tongue
rolling gene, then they cannot roll their tongue no matter
how hard they try.

Saddly....I do not have that gene, and yet my DH and my 2 DD's are so proud of this ability, and demonstrate it often to remind me that I cannot.

[2BME]

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People who can roll their tongues contain a dominant allele
for tongue rolling. If people do not contain the tongue
rolling gene, then they cannot roll their tongue no matter
how hard they try.

Saddly....I do not have that gene, and yet my DH and my 2 DD's are so proud of this ability, and demonstrate it often to remind me that I cannot.

Now that is awesomely cool to know. Both of my daughters can roll their tongues and they can flip them completely upside-down which is freaky. I love trivia.

[JEC48]

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Your thumb is the same size as your nose.

[blueberrylady]

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And the length of your foot is the same as the distance between your wrist and your elbow! Just put one foot on your knee and measure your arm against it. Amazing!

[Lisa]

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And the length of your foot is the same as the distance between your wrist and your elbow! Just put one foot on your knee and measure your arm against it. Amazing!

Hey, I tried that one just now...I had to sit in an ackward position, but I did it. Now I can shop for shoes faster...

[Lisa]

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Now that is awesomely cool to know. Both of my daughters can roll their tongues and they can flip them completely upside-down which is freaky. I love trivia.

That is freaky...funny, too! Lucky them. I bet they torment you with the abilities...or maybe that's just my kids that do that.

[2BME]

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I bet they torment you with the abilities...or maybe that's just my kids that do that.

All children must torment their parents. I think that is a cardinal law or something! lol

My trivia for today....
~The world record for passing gas was set on Japanese television,
3,000 times in a row ~
SOURCE: Grossology: The science of Really Gross Things

[Lisa]

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I should have had them time my husband....they must not know his keen abilitites.

[C P]

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~The world record for passing gas was set on Japanese television,
3,000 times in a row ~

Hmmm - probably too many sugar alcohols!


CP

[cheribaby]

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Americans eat on average 18 acres worth of pizza every day.

not sure how accurate this is, but it sounds right!