Useless Trivia
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Whoami | Tuesday, June 11, 2002 - 09:11 pm     I've seen some of these before. The others are either new, or I forgot about them! Things You Did Not Know And Probably Don't Need to Know... A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue. A snail can sleep for three years. All polar bears are left handed. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class. Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. Babies are born without knee caps. 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. China has more English speakers than the United States. Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear any pants. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you will have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Marilyn Monroe had six toes. No word in the English language rhymes with month. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'. Starfish haven't got brains. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with. The name Wendy was made up for the book 'Peter Pan'. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. Women blink nearly twice as much as men. And finally... You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider, |
Sia | Tuesday, June 11, 2002 - 10:08 pm     Thanks, Whoami! Just another reason why I prefer cats to dogs; I've always said that my cat could talk WITH me (whereas, dogs are limited in speech and brains, LOL)!!  |
Bob2112 | Tuesday, June 11, 2002 - 10:20 pm     Whoami, great list! I was almost banned in Finland for the same reason. Oh, Marilyn only had 5 toes. Urban Legend But, who was looking at her toes?  |
Weinermr | Tuesday, June 11, 2002 - 10:24 pm     Toe DiMaggio and Archur Miller |
Theowl | Tuesday, June 11, 2002 - 10:27 pm     My dogs have alot more than 10 vocal sounds!!! They are hound dogs!!!!!  |
Bob2112 | Tuesday, June 11, 2002 - 10:34 pm     Weinermr, that must be the other toe! Good thinking. I knew I shouldn't believe everything I read on the internet. Extra arches too. Wow! I feel like such a heel. |
Weinermr | Tuesday, June 11, 2002 - 10:36 pm     A very soleful answer Bob, laced with contrition. |
Kaili | Tuesday, June 11, 2002 - 10:52 pm     South America and North America are technically the names of the two seperate continents, which would make that one wrong...but yeah, America fits the vowel thing. |
Whoami | Tuesday, June 11, 2002 - 11:10 pm     Yea, I thought about that North America and South America thing too. But, I didnt' create the list, I just copy/pasted! Didn't think I should edit it out. Much more fun to discuss it and pick it apart! |
Kaili | Tuesday, June 11, 2002 - 11:13 pm     I like the list though- weird interesting stuff. I love useless trivia. Did you know licking a stamp is one calorie? |
Marysafan | Wednesday, June 12, 2002 - 11:25 am     The eye grows. That is why so many kids get to be nearsighted. It does not stay the same size. I can't imagne a giant tortoise jumping. I can't believe hippos can get much off the ground either. |
Urgrace | Wednesday, June 12, 2002 - 09:22 pm     Marysafan, I saw a giant tortoise jump straight up so I know it is true. |
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