Thread: Trivia

Originally Posted by DonN

Babies are born without kneecaps.
They don't appear until the child
reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

That ones crap. My one year old has knee caps. Maybe the kids in America are so fat they can't find them. :eek: Better be careful, I might offend one of them and get sued.

Dan

The number of prime numbers is infinite.

Does the fact that I went to his biography to check out the circumstances of Winston Churchill's birth mean that I have too much time on my hands?

By the way, it neither confirms nor denies that given above.

90% of my typing is done with my right index finger.

Originally Posted by DonN

"Stewardesses"

Maybe in America but here they are extinct. We only have " Flight Attendants " or more often known as " Trolley Dollies".

Peter.

Seem to recall a story about stewardesses and bowling balls :confused:

gold fish do not have a three second memory.
its only told so we dont feal bad keeping them in a little glass bowl

Ian :eek:

Originally Posted by DonN

SO YOU THINK YOU
KNOW EVERYTHING?

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

A snail can sleep for three years.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

All 50 states are listed across the top
of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

An ostrich's eye is bigger
than its brain.

Babies are born without kneecaps.
They don't appear until the child
reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds.
Dogs only have about 10.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full
moon.

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line
would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an
average of 6 months waiting at red lights.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or
purple.

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament
building is an American flag.

**** Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears
never stop growing.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and
"lollipop" with your right.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel
that it burns.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and
a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

**** The sentence:
"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
uses every letter of the alphabet.

The winter of 1932 was so cold
that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same wh ether they are
read left to right or right to left (palindromes).

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous":
tremendous, h orrendous, stupendous, and hazardous

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in
order:
"abstemious" and "facetious."

There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only
on one row of the keyboard.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks;
otherwise it will digest itself.

. . Now you know everything!
(Well, almost - hehehe....)

Hey you missed one Don,
A male shark has 2 penises

Originally Posted by echnidna

Hey you missed one Don,
A male shark has 2 penises

OHH no you dont.. I refuse to say anything to this! :eek:

The gonads of a Splendid Wren (the one that goes bright blue in the breeding season) are 14% of its body weight.

Is this the missing number 9?

Originally Posted by Robert WA

The gonads of a Splendid Wren (the one that goes bright blue in the breeding season) are 14% of its body weight.

Is this the missing number 9?

So were mine when the chain broke on me pushbike....

It did not freeze solid. There was enough ice build-up at the bottom of the falls, that people came out and had a great time. There were shacks to sell food and snacks, they ice skated and had fun - till it thawed. You can't stop 60,000 cubic metres of water per second.

Originally Posted by DonN

"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and
"lollipop" with your right.

The word "TYPEWRITER" uses only the top row on a QWERTY keyboard.

More Trivia




If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced
enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee .

(Hardly seems worth it.)

If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced
to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

(Now that's more like it!)

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to
squirt blood 30 feet.

(O.M.G.!)

A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.

(In my next life, I want to be a pig.)

A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to
death.

(Creepy, but I'm still not over the pig.)

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

(Do not try this at home...... maybe at work.)

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its
body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.

("Honey, I'm home. What the....?!")

The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the
length of a football field.

(30 minutes... lucky pig... can you imagine??)

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

(What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)

Some lions mate over 50 times a day..

(I still want to be a pig in my next life...quality over quantity)

Butterflies taste with their feet.

(Something I always wanted to know.)

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

(Hmmmmmm........)

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer
than left-handed people.

(If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)

Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.

(OK, so that would be a good thing....)

A cat's urine glows under a black light.

(I wonder who was paid to figure that out?)

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

(I know some people like that.)

Starfish have no brains.

(I know some people like that too.)

Polar bears are left-handed.

(If they switch, they'll live a lot longer.)

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

(What about that pig??)