teh trivia/fun facts thread
01-25-2007, 04:48 PM
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teh trivia/fun facts thread
The average speed of air when you exhale is 15MPH.
The average American will eat 35,000 cookies during his/her lifetime.
The invention of the potato chip was a complete accident.
The average person, in their lifetime, will consume 8 random insects while they sleep.
There are no naturally Blue foods on Earth. Blueberries are Purple/Violet.
It would take 288 years for one to spend a night in each hotel room in vegas.
Shrimp consumption in Las Vegas is more than 60,000 pounds a day. That's higher than the rest of the country combined and adds up to 22 million pounds per year.
There are no turkeys in turkey
Babies are born without kneecaps.
Hummingbirds weigh less than a penny.
Dalmations are born almost totally white.
Approximately 55% of movies released are Rated R.
Baby rattlesnakes are born without rattles.
The average bra size today is 36C. Ten years ago it was 34B.
The first football player on a Wheaties box was Walter Payton of Columbia.
The largest toy distributor in the world is McDonald’s. (Happy Meals)
If you put a cigarette in a frogs mouth, it will explode.
If a mosquito bites you and you stretch your skin, it will keep sucking blood until it explodes.
In Athens, Greece, a driver's license can be lifted by the law if the driver is deemed either 'poorly dressed' or 'unbathed'.
On the island of Jersey it's against the law for a man to knit during the fishing season.
In Alabama it is illegal to carry a comb in your pocket, because it may be used as a weapon. This comes after a 13 year old boy was killed when he was stabbed with a comb.
In Michigan, it is illegal to chain an alligator to a fire hydrant.
It is against the law to whale hunt in Oklahoma.
In Fairbanks, Alaska it is illegal for a moose to walk on the side walk. This dates back to the early days if the town when the owner of the bar had a pet moose that he used to get drunk. The moose would then stumble around the town drunk. The only way the law makers could prevent this from happining was to create the law so the moose could not cross the sidewalk and get into the bar.
In Quebec, Canada, an old law states that margarine must be a different colour from butter. This law is the result of Quebec dairy lobbyists' pressure to ''protect'' their dairy business. They claimed margarine was beginning to resemble butter, as to be mistaken for real butter. Make margarine unattractive, and consumers would stick to butter. The Quebec government caved in, and tried to impose a dark vermilion-coloured margarine, which was disgusting. The colour, finally, at the other extreme, is a pallid almost-white-colourless margarine.
According to a british law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying.
It is illegal to sell an E.T. doll in France. They have a law forbidding the sale of dolls that do not have human faces.
The avg growth of hair per day is half a millimeter.
Strawberries are the only fruit with the seeds on the outside.
Ferdinand Porsche, who later went on to build sports cars bearing his own name, designed the original 1936 Volkswagen.
In animal kingdom, the power vs. muscle ratio is inversely proportional to the body size. Therefore, if a flea retains its power per muscle and grows as big as the elephant, the flea is totally going to kick the elephant's ***.
The most explosive inorganic material is fluorine perchlorate. It explodes upon wind-blow.
fahrenheit was invented w/ the most bazzare rules:
100 F as his own body temp at the time of recording.
0F as the lowest temp in his hometown, Danzig, between 1708-1709. The reason being is that so he could avoid using "-" sign in his temperature scale.
Critical point for a material is the point where you can no longer tell the boundary between liquid and gas. (requires certain pressure and temperature)
One of the 7 wonders, Colossus of Rhodes, was said to have Helio's statue standing with legs open. Each leg located on either side of the port. When you looked up during in and out of the port, u could see the 8th wonder.
Sperm (semen) works best while in a group. When grouped together, each individual sperm tend to travel faster, compared to the ones that go solo.
The average American will eat 35,000 cookies during his/her lifetime.
The invention of the potato chip was a complete accident.
The average person, in their lifetime, will consume 8 random insects while they sleep.
There are no naturally Blue foods on Earth. Blueberries are Purple/Violet.
It would take 288 years for one to spend a night in each hotel room in vegas.
Shrimp consumption in Las Vegas is more than 60,000 pounds a day. That's higher than the rest of the country combined and adds up to 22 million pounds per year.
There are no turkeys in turkey
Babies are born without kneecaps.
Hummingbirds weigh less than a penny.
Dalmations are born almost totally white.
Approximately 55% of movies released are Rated R.
Baby rattlesnakes are born without rattles.
The average bra size today is 36C. Ten years ago it was 34B.
The first football player on a Wheaties box was Walter Payton of Columbia.
The largest toy distributor in the world is McDonald’s. (Happy Meals)
If you put a cigarette in a frogs mouth, it will explode.
If a mosquito bites you and you stretch your skin, it will keep sucking blood until it explodes.
In Athens, Greece, a driver's license can be lifted by the law if the driver is deemed either 'poorly dressed' or 'unbathed'.
On the island of Jersey it's against the law for a man to knit during the fishing season.
In Alabama it is illegal to carry a comb in your pocket, because it may be used as a weapon. This comes after a 13 year old boy was killed when he was stabbed with a comb.
In Michigan, it is illegal to chain an alligator to a fire hydrant.
It is against the law to whale hunt in Oklahoma.
In Fairbanks, Alaska it is illegal for a moose to walk on the side walk. This dates back to the early days if the town when the owner of the bar had a pet moose that he used to get drunk. The moose would then stumble around the town drunk. The only way the law makers could prevent this from happining was to create the law so the moose could not cross the sidewalk and get into the bar.
In Quebec, Canada, an old law states that margarine must be a different colour from butter. This law is the result of Quebec dairy lobbyists' pressure to ''protect'' their dairy business. They claimed margarine was beginning to resemble butter, as to be mistaken for real butter. Make margarine unattractive, and consumers would stick to butter. The Quebec government caved in, and tried to impose a dark vermilion-coloured margarine, which was disgusting. The colour, finally, at the other extreme, is a pallid almost-white-colourless margarine.
According to a british law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying.
It is illegal to sell an E.T. doll in France. They have a law forbidding the sale of dolls that do not have human faces.
The avg growth of hair per day is half a millimeter.
Strawberries are the only fruit with the seeds on the outside.
Ferdinand Porsche, who later went on to build sports cars bearing his own name, designed the original 1936 Volkswagen.
In animal kingdom, the power vs. muscle ratio is inversely proportional to the body size. Therefore, if a flea retains its power per muscle and grows as big as the elephant, the flea is totally going to kick the elephant's ***.
The most explosive inorganic material is fluorine perchlorate. It explodes upon wind-blow.
fahrenheit was invented w/ the most bazzare rules:
100 F as his own body temp at the time of recording.
0F as the lowest temp in his hometown, Danzig, between 1708-1709. The reason being is that so he could avoid using "-" sign in his temperature scale.
Critical point for a material is the point where you can no longer tell the boundary between liquid and gas. (requires certain pressure and temperature)
One of the 7 wonders, Colossus of Rhodes, was said to have Helio's statue standing with legs open. Each leg located on either side of the port. When you looked up during in and out of the port, u could see the 8th wonder.
Sperm (semen) works best while in a group. When grouped together, each individual sperm tend to travel faster, compared to the ones that go solo.
01-25-2007, 04:54 PM
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time for sex with animals
The female knot-tying weaverbird will refuse to mate with a male who has built a shoddy nest. If spurned, the male must take the nest apart and completely rebuild it in order to win the affections of the female.
The male Darwin frog, found in Chile, swallows his mates eggs and keeps them in a sac under his chin. When the tadpoles are big enough he opens his mouth and lets them out.
The female bedbug has no sexual opening. To get around this small problem, the male uses his curved ***** to drill a vagina into the female.
The female Praying Mantis eats her mate after sex. During the act the female will hook her large arms around to hold him in place and start nibbling away. The sex drive is so strong in the male that he can continue to copulate even if his partner gets a little peckish before he's finished.
The male tick doesn't have a *****. Instead, he uses his nose to sniff out the females vagina. Once he's made it large enough by poking his nose around, he turns round and deposits his semen. To finish the job off, he then turns round again and pushes the semen inside with his trusty nose.
The oyster is usually ambisexual. It begins life as a male, then becomes a female, then changes back to being a male, then back to being female. It may go back and forth many times.
So, you've heard the phrase, "going at it like rabbits". Well, the desert rat makes the rabbit look a little useless in the Don Juan stakes. The desert rat can have sex up to 120 times an hour.
The female knot-tying weaverbird will refuse to mate with a male who has built a shoddy nest. If spurned, the male must take the nest apart and completely rebuild it in order to win the affections of the female.
The male Darwin frog, found in Chile, swallows his mates eggs and keeps them in a sac under his chin. When the tadpoles are big enough he opens his mouth and lets them out.
The female bedbug has no sexual opening. To get around this small problem, the male uses his curved ***** to drill a vagina into the female.
The female Praying Mantis eats her mate after sex. During the act the female will hook her large arms around to hold him in place and start nibbling away. The sex drive is so strong in the male that he can continue to copulate even if his partner gets a little peckish before he's finished.
The male tick doesn't have a *****. Instead, he uses his nose to sniff out the females vagina. Once he's made it large enough by poking his nose around, he turns round and deposits his semen. To finish the job off, he then turns round again and pushes the semen inside with his trusty nose.
The oyster is usually ambisexual. It begins life as a male, then becomes a female, then changes back to being a male, then back to being female. It may go back and forth many times.
So, you've heard the phrase, "going at it like rabbits". Well, the desert rat makes the rabbit look a little useless in the Don Juan stakes. The desert rat can have sex up to 120 times an hour.
01-25-2007, 04:57 PM
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In Texas it is illegal to have sex with a fish, in Florida it is illegal to get a fish drunk, and N.Carolina thought both laws were good, so in NC it is illegal to have sex with a drunk fish.
The most poisonous fish in the world is the Stone fish
The largest known fish in the sea is the Whale Shark. It weighs up to 20 tons and grows to a length of 40 feet.
Jelly Fish, not sharks, are the deadliest killer in oceans and seas. A certain kind of box jelly fish kills more people than all the shark species do put together.
Fish do not have eyelids and therefore cannot blink. This is because the purpose of blinking is to hydrate the eyes; tear ducts produce moisture, and blinking spreads that moisture over the surface of the eye. Since fish live in water they have no need for this.
The elephant snout, an African fish, communicates with other fish by emitting an electrical signal, sort of a fish's version of Morse Code
In Japan meat from the 'Fugu' or spiny puffer fish is considered a rare delicacy, however the liver and intestines contain a powerfull neurotoxin and the slightest contamination during preperation can be deadly. Restaraunts who serve fugu must have 'Fugu certified' chefs. In japan about one hundred people on average die annualy from fugu poisoning.
If the Loch Ness monster exists at all, he (or she) could only be about as big as a sixth grader. A new study shows that there is only enough fish in the loch to feed a 31 kg (about 67 lb) creature. The scientists used sonar to estimate the number of fish in the lake and came up with an annual food supply of 93 kg. Since a cold blooded animal like Nessie would need to eat about three times its body weight each year, it could only weigh about 31 kg.
The most poisonous fish in the world is the Stone fish
The largest known fish in the sea is the Whale Shark. It weighs up to 20 tons and grows to a length of 40 feet.
Jelly Fish, not sharks, are the deadliest killer in oceans and seas. A certain kind of box jelly fish kills more people than all the shark species do put together.
Fish do not have eyelids and therefore cannot blink. This is because the purpose of blinking is to hydrate the eyes; tear ducts produce moisture, and blinking spreads that moisture over the surface of the eye. Since fish live in water they have no need for this.
The elephant snout, an African fish, communicates with other fish by emitting an electrical signal, sort of a fish's version of Morse Code
In Japan meat from the 'Fugu' or spiny puffer fish is considered a rare delicacy, however the liver and intestines contain a powerfull neurotoxin and the slightest contamination during preperation can be deadly. Restaraunts who serve fugu must have 'Fugu certified' chefs. In japan about one hundred people on average die annualy from fugu poisoning.
If the Loch Ness monster exists at all, he (or she) could only be about as big as a sixth grader. A new study shows that there is only enough fish in the loch to feed a 31 kg (about 67 lb) creature. The scientists used sonar to estimate the number of fish in the lake and came up with an annual food supply of 93 kg. Since a cold blooded animal like Nessie would need to eat about three times its body weight each year, it could only weigh about 31 kg.
01-25-2007, 04:59 PM
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The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
There are more chickens in the world than people
Pinocchio was made of pine.
Every year, Alaska has about 5,000 earthquakes.
The hundred billionth Crayola crayon ever produced was Perriwinkle Blue.
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
Strawberries have more vitamin c than oranges.
More people in China speak English than in the United States.
An ostrich egg would take four hours to hard boil.
An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
Until the 1960's men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland.
A prune is a dried plumb.
Denver was chosen to host the 1976 Winter Olympics, but later refused.
Another name for the card game "Solitaire" is "Patience".
Saturday was named for the planet saturn.
The abbreviation a.m. stands for "ante meridiem". The abbreviation p.m. stands for "post meridiem".
The best beaches for surfing face west.
Wheat is the worlds most grown, and the world's most eaten food
Gibraltar is the only place in Europe were you can find wild monkeys.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
The first American dictionary was writen by Noah Webster.
An elephant raises it's trunk when it senses danger.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds
Pigs can run a mile in 7 ½ minutes
The shortest word in the English language to contain the letters A,B,C,D,E, and F is: ‘Feedback’
If you sleep in a cold room, you are more likely to have a bad dream.
After eating too much food, your hearing becomes less sharp.
Jack is the most common name in a fairy tale.
A grasshopper can leap 20 times the length of its own body.
45% of dollar bills you'll ever own have been in a stripper's g-string. After the "Popeye" comic strip started in 1931, spinach consumption went up by thirty-three percent in the United States. (wash your hands d00ds lol)
The largest recorded kidney stone weighed 1.36 kg.
Kidney stones range in color.
The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.
The average person laughs 13 times a day.
The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
Australia is the only continent without an active volcanoe.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
There are more chickens in the world than people
Pinocchio was made of pine.
Every year, Alaska has about 5,000 earthquakes.
The hundred billionth Crayola crayon ever produced was Perriwinkle Blue.
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
Strawberries have more vitamin c than oranges.
More people in China speak English than in the United States.
An ostrich egg would take four hours to hard boil.
An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
Until the 1960's men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland.
A prune is a dried plumb.
Denver was chosen to host the 1976 Winter Olympics, but later refused.
Another name for the card game "Solitaire" is "Patience".
Saturday was named for the planet saturn.
The abbreviation a.m. stands for "ante meridiem". The abbreviation p.m. stands for "post meridiem".
The best beaches for surfing face west.
Wheat is the worlds most grown, and the world's most eaten food
Gibraltar is the only place in Europe were you can find wild monkeys.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
The first American dictionary was writen by Noah Webster.
An elephant raises it's trunk when it senses danger.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds
Pigs can run a mile in 7 ½ minutes
The shortest word in the English language to contain the letters A,B,C,D,E, and F is: ‘Feedback’
If you sleep in a cold room, you are more likely to have a bad dream.
After eating too much food, your hearing becomes less sharp.
Jack is the most common name in a fairy tale.
A grasshopper can leap 20 times the length of its own body.
45% of dollar bills you'll ever own have been in a stripper's g-string. After the "Popeye" comic strip started in 1931, spinach consumption went up by thirty-three percent in the United States. (wash your hands d00ds lol)
The largest recorded kidney stone weighed 1.36 kg.
Kidney stones range in color.
The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.
The average person laughs 13 times a day.
The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
Australia is the only continent without an active volcanoe.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
01-26-2007, 02:07 PM
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Originally Posted by laoba
it may or may not be true. i don't know ;p
it's sort of like if you feed a pigeon tums, it will explode
it's sort of like if you feed a pigeon tums, it will explode
01-26-2007, 02:17 PM
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ok got these from snapple.com
Random real fact #336: the "high five" was introduced by a professional baseball player in 1977
Random real fact #114: the world's biggest pyramid is not in Egypt, but in Mexico
Random real fact #115: in 1926, the first outdoor mini-golf courses were built on rooftops in NYC
Random real fact #220: the first country to use postcards was Austria
Random real fact #332: storm clouds hold about 6 trillion raindrops
Random real fact #117: the first sailing boats were built in Egypt
Random real fact #223: there are seven letters that look the same upside down as right side up
Random real fact #63: the average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime
Random real fact #75: the average person makes about 1,140 telephone calls each year
Random real fact #336: the "high five" was introduced by a professional baseball player in 1977
Random real fact #114: the world's biggest pyramid is not in Egypt, but in Mexico
Random real fact #115: in 1926, the first outdoor mini-golf courses were built on rooftops in NYC
Random real fact #220: the first country to use postcards was Austria
Random real fact #332: storm clouds hold about 6 trillion raindrops
Random real fact #117: the first sailing boats were built in Egypt
Random real fact #223: there are seven letters that look the same upside down as right side up
Random real fact #63: the average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime
Random real fact #75: the average person makes about 1,140 telephone calls each year