Guest Lord Tirion Posted January 11, 2002 Share Posted January 11, 2002 1. A rat can last longer without water than a camel. 2. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself. YUCK! 3. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle. 4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top. 5. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate. 6. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why. 7. A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2 by 3-1/2. 8. During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur", a small red car can be see in the distance. 9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily! 10. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants. 11. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood. 12. The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000. 13. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver. 14. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan". There was never a recorded Wendy before. 15. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World WarII killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. 16. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. Who was the sadist who discovered this?? 17. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l- o-w film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm. 18. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA". 19. The original name for butterfly was flutterby. 20. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb. WHAT 21. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola. 22. Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet. 23. By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand. GOOD FACT TO REMEMBER?? 24. Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. 25. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest. 26. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying. 27. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson". 28. An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing. ? 29. The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher. 30. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries. 31. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue Nine Posted January 11, 2002 Share Posted January 11, 2002 Très intéressant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boba Rhett Posted January 11, 2002 Share Posted January 11, 2002 6. That's so not true! 9. WOAH! My twin bro and I look nothing alike! Some more: There are 88 named constellation of stars. Most ancient Egyptians worked as field hands, farmers, craftsmen and scribes. Dragonball Z was the most term most searched for in 2001. The Danish equivalent of the name John is Hans. In the animal world, a young eel is known as an elver. The size of your foot is approximately the size of your forearm. 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 thumb is such a major player in the human body that it has a special section, separate from the area that controls the fingers, reserved for it in the brain. About 40 novae erupt in our galaxy each year. About 27 tons of dust rains down on the earth each day from space, making a total of almost 10,000 tons each year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artoo Posted January 11, 2002 Share Posted January 11, 2002 I'll just have to remember these when I go take the ACT in a couple of years. *unrelated announcement* I GET TO PLAY JOHN WILLIAMS FOR MY BAND CONCERT THIS YEAR!!!!!!! *end unrelated announcement* p.s. cat urine glows when lit by a dark light Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boba Rhett Posted January 11, 2002 Share Posted January 11, 2002 Pfft. Big deal. So does mine. *sigh* I've said to much haven't I? *runs away* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tie Guy Posted January 11, 2002 Share Posted January 11, 2002 Wow, very interesting and....use..ful Half that stuff i'd heard already but some of it is pretty suprising. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zygomaticus Posted January 11, 2002 Share Posted January 11, 2002 interesting did you know that a swan can separate milk from water? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DashRendar Posted January 11, 2002 Share Posted January 11, 2002 Wierd is right.... Well here's one: Pound by pound hamburgers cost more than cars! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artoo Posted January 11, 2002 Share Posted January 11, 2002 Gasoline is the least exensive liquid at a gas station. Compared with bottled water, coke, and milk! Keep em coming and I'll ace this ACT for sure! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JEDI_MASTA Posted January 11, 2002 Share Posted January 11, 2002 umm the background of the forum is every color but brown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boba Rhett Posted January 11, 2002 Share Posted January 11, 2002 Alexander the Great was the king of Macedonia from 336 - 323 BC. Aardvark means "Earth pig" in Afrikaans, a language of South Africa. The Captain of the Titanic was Edward J. Smith. The population of Cuba is just over 11 million people. In 1752, the British courts passed a law forcing murderers' bodies to be given to doctors for research. Ironically, when doctors in Los Angeles, California went on strike in 1976, the daily number of deaths in the city also went down. France is the most-visited country in the world for tourism. The first episode of the television sitcom Happy Days was titled "All The Way." The estimated 1998 spending on all U.S. nuclear weapons and weapons-related programs was $35,100,000,000. In 1992, when EuroDisney first opened in France, some of the characters were beaten by the public because the at the time most people had been against the park being built. Two out of three adults in the United States have hemorrhoids. A McDonald's straw will hold 7.7 ml, or just over one-and-a-half teaspoons of whatever you are drinking. This means that it would take 17,000 strawfuls of water to fill up a 34 gallon bathtub If you are taking a class in pistology, you are studying faith. If you add together all the numbers on a roulette wheel (1 to 36), the total is the mystical number 666, often associated with the Devil. A "threnody" is a song of lamentation, a funeral song, or a dirge. If the number 111,111,111 is multiplied by itself, the result is all of the digits in ascending to descending order, or 12,345,678,987,654,321. Official FDA guidelines allow whole pepper to be sold with up to 1 percent of the volume made up of rodent droppings. The Caesar salad is not named after Julius Caesar. It is named for its creator, Caesar Cardini, who first prepared the salad in his Caesar's Palace Restaurant in Tijuana, Mexico. A ****roach heart is nothing but a simple tube with valves. The tube can pump blood backwards and forwards in the insect. The heart can even stop moving without harming the roach. A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites. According to the United States Department of Agriculture, the best time to spray household insects is 4:00 p.m. Insects are most vulnerable at this time There you go. I don't know if I believe the burger one and that duck one is definately not true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zygomaticus Posted January 11, 2002 Share Posted January 11, 2002 i dont have so many cuz i take these out of my own knowledge but heres one hakunama tata actually does mean "no worries" in the kenyan language- you may have known that but i didnt until recently Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JEDI_MASTA Posted January 11, 2002 Share Posted January 11, 2002 umm the background of the forum is every color but brown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Compa_Mighty Posted January 11, 2002 Share Posted January 11, 2002 Great guys! ROFL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthfergie Posted January 11, 2002 Share Posted January 11, 2002 I'm with Tie Guy...These are very...use...ful... Why do people look these up??? I mean all this is useless trivia that will never be used unless your in Quiz Bowl or some wierd club like that... (I'd better get started memorizing all these because I'm wierd through and through) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boba Rhett Posted January 11, 2002 Share Posted January 11, 2002 Here's another compilation for your enjoyment. _________________________________________ Public sanitation was at an all-time low during the Middle Ages. Garbage was piled up so high outside the city of Paris during the 1400's that it interfered with the city's defenses. The onion is a lily, botanically. A bolt of lightning can strike the Earth with a force as great as 100 million volts. In Canada, if a debt is higher than 25 cents, it is illegal to pay it with pennies. FBI agents were first allowed to carry guns in 1934, 26 years after the agency was established. In ancient times, any Japanese who tried to leave his homeland was summarily put to death. In the 1630s, a decree in Japan forbade the building of any large ocean-worthy ships to deter defection. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. There are more chickens than people in the world. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched." Almonds are a member of the peach family. Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula." The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life." A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister and was a sniper in Vietnam. I know! I can't believe it either! The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball. The fig tree in South America has roots that go down over 390 feet. Insects breath through holes called spiracles, which are located on their sides. The biggest star has a diameter of 1800 million miles, making it 2000 times bigger than the Sun. Pus is made up of dead white cells and the micro-organisms they have killed. A gallon of water weighs 8.34 pounds If all the strawberries produced in California annually were laid side by side, they would wrap around the world 15 times. Bibliophobia is the fear of books. India has 50 million monkeys. Each leg of a 'Daddy Longlegs' contains about fifty joints. King Alexander of Greece died in 1920, after his pet monkey bit him... Of all forms of legalized gambling, lotteries have the worst odds... 0.000008% of the 97 million or so people who play it annually win a million dollars. Dwight D. Eisenhower used to wear 3 coats of clear nail polish. hehe.... I always knew that he was one of those. A big elm tree will produce, about, 6 million leaves in a season. On December 29, 1916, Rasputin was killed..... It took poison cakes, poison wine, and gunshots to take him down...... after being pulled from the Neva River, they found the cause of death as drowning. In the 1700's 1 in 7 Parisians was a beggar... competition was feirce and many had to be innovative... the most extreme innovation was Denatsation... the corners of the mouth were cut to the ears, gum's removed and the nose cut off to rveal a gaping hole. WOW! ______________________________________________ Now you know everything. At least until my next list. Oh wait, here's one more before I go.... Francois Voltaire panicked on his death bed, reached into the chamberpot and ate....ummm..... *cough* stuff. o_O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthfergie Posted January 11, 2002 Share Posted January 11, 2002 *bangs head on keyboard repeatedly* ttftfrtffhttfuytyguigyi Ouch... I can't memorize all this!!! Where do you get this stuff??? Off trivial persute cards or something??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lord Tirion Posted January 11, 2002 Share Posted January 11, 2002 omg what did I start? =P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GB_StormTrooper Posted January 11, 2002 Share Posted January 11, 2002 --> In your lifetime, you will at least swallow 3 spiders while your sleeping ..........UGG:eyeraise: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boba Rhett Posted January 11, 2002 Share Posted January 11, 2002 No, I'm not done yet. Here are a few more. I have a story about spiders and the eating of them but I don't wanna talk about it now. _____________________________________ In the spring of 1975, a baby in Detroit fell 14 stories and landed on Joseph Figlock, who was walking below. A few years later it happened again. Figlock and both babies survived When the Galileo Probe entered Jupiter's atmosphere, it was traveling at a speed of 106,000 miles per hour. This is the fastest impact speed ever achieved by a man-made object One tree can filter up to 60 pounds of pollutants from the air each year An aircraft carrier gets about 6 inches per gallon of fuel More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing. Very disturbing During the California Gold Rush in 1849, water was so scarce that people were paying up to $100 for a glass of water There are 29 volcanoes in Alaska A mosquito can smell you from 35 metres away Celtic warriors sometimes fought their battles naked, dyed blue from head to toe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GB_StormTrooper Posted January 11, 2002 Share Posted January 11, 2002 Originally posted by Boba Rhett Celtic warriors sometimes fought their battles naked, dyed blue from head to toe Got Armor? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Influenza Posted January 11, 2002 Share Posted January 11, 2002 16. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. Who was the sadist who discovered this?? Uh... close, but not quite. Pressing anything against the back of a scorpion will cause it to stab itself with its stinger. It's simply an automatic reaction. And sadly, unlike snakes, scorpions are not immune to their own venom; thus, they suffer a painful death at the hands of themselves 6. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.That disobeys the laws of phsyics. Not even Donald can do that . Here's my own: in a one-man game of standard 5-card Poker, your odds of dealing a Royal Flush in any suit are 1 to 649,740 against. Those odds decrease the more players involved in the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy_dog no.3 Posted January 11, 2002 Share Posted January 11, 2002 Rats servive bieng flushed down the toilet. Great White sharks are warm-blooded, unlike other fish(It's true, it was in a documentary) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DashRendar Posted January 11, 2002 Share Posted January 11, 2002 Well think of it this way a quarter-pounder can cost around $2 and that's a quarter of a pound and most cars weigh about 2 or 3 tons:eek: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silenthunter Posted January 11, 2002 Share Posted January 11, 2002 If you stacked all the Oreo cookies eaten each year on top of each other, it would reach the moon and back 4 times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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