this is a place to post random trivia. For example:
The average life expectancy for a 2nd Lt. dropped in Vietnam was about 16 min.
The average life expectancy for a 2nd Lt. dropped in Vietnam was about 16 min.
The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
When barbecuing, wait until the final 5 to 15 minutes of cooking time to put on the BBQ sauce — this helps prevent scorching.
A good milking cow will give nearly 6,000 quarts of milk every year.
The heart beats faster during a brisk walk or heated argument than during sexual intercourse.
During World War II, the U.S. Navy's world champion chess player, Reuben Fine, calculated, on the basis of positional probability, where enemy submarines might surface.
The short-term memory capacity for most people is between five and nine items or digits. This is one reason that phone numbers were kept to seven digits (not including area code).
Belgium is the only country that has never imposed censorship for adult films. hehehehe go Belgium '
Most people by the age of sixty have lost 50 percent of their taste buds and 40 percent of their ability to smell.
Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray or lotion blocks the mosquito's sensors; however, they will seek out unprotected areas of skin.
The country of Yemen has the world's highest fertility rate among women at 7.6, the world's lowest — Switzerland at 1.5.
The first lighthouse to use electricity was the Statue of Liberty in 1886.
The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
The kidney consists of over 1 million little tubes, and the total length of the tubes in both kidneys runs to about forty miles.
Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath once a year.
Various U.S. cities are named after other countries. You can visit the U.S. city of Peru in the states of Maine, Nebraska, and New York.
More redheads are born in Scotland than in any other country: 11 percent of its population has red hair.
The world's two largest dams are both in Russia. They are the Inguri (988 feet high) and the Nurek (984 feet high).
People dream an average of five times a night, and each subsequent dream is longer than the one preceding it. The first dream of the evening is about 10 minutes long, and the last dream is about 45 minutes.
A good milking cow will give nearly 6,000 quarts of milk every year.
The heart beats faster during a brisk walk or heated argument than during sexual intercourse.
During World War II, the U.S. Navy's world champion chess player, Reuben Fine, calculated, on the basis of positional probability, where enemy submarines might surface.
The short-term memory capacity for most people is between five and nine items or digits. This is one reason that phone numbers were kept to seven digits (not including area code).
Belgium is the only country that has never imposed censorship for adult films. hehehehe go Belgium '
Most people by the age of sixty have lost 50 percent of their taste buds and 40 percent of their ability to smell.
Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray or lotion blocks the mosquito's sensors; however, they will seek out unprotected areas of skin.
The country of Yemen has the world's highest fertility rate among women at 7.6, the world's lowest — Switzerland at 1.5.
The first lighthouse to use electricity was the Statue of Liberty in 1886.
The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
The kidney consists of over 1 million little tubes, and the total length of the tubes in both kidneys runs to about forty miles.
Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath once a year.
Various U.S. cities are named after other countries. You can visit the U.S. city of Peru in the states of Maine, Nebraska, and New York.
More redheads are born in Scotland than in any other country: 11 percent of its population has red hair.
The world's two largest dams are both in Russia. They are the Inguri (988 feet high) and the Nurek (984 feet high).
People dream an average of five times a night, and each subsequent dream is longer than the one preceding it. The first dream of the evening is about 10 minutes long, and the last dream is about 45 minutes.
blademaster,
one would have been fine.
CoronadoSeal
one would have been fine.
CoronadoSeal
well I kind of got carried away lol got caught up in the moment
Last edited by blademaster (2007-02-07 20:30:06)
well are there any others out there?
A lot of airplanes you fly on are older than you.
ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...okusmarine2007 wrote:
A lot of airplanes you fly on are older than you.
ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...oktheit57 wrote:
ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...ok
The footage of Anna Nicole Smith's final moments sold for $500,000. The two minute video shows paramedics administering CPR on the unresponsive actress, and wheeling her into the ambulance on a gurney.
No because blademaster took them all.theit57 wrote:
well are there any others out there?
the sky is blue
Civil aircraft spit out a surprising amount of unburnt fuel, which can be seen in certain weather conditions sitting atop standing water.
A suitably acclimatised person can and will sleep through anything, but will wake up if the sound is removed.
Scar tissue peels more readily than regular skin.
Windows Update installs more security holes than it fixes.
Most blogs have a readership of only one.
Politicians are capable of speaking for over an hour without actually saying anything.
The US Army's new bomb disposal robots are controlled with an XBox 360 controller.
At one point, over 80% of france was british territory.
Someone has invented a simple aircraft that takes off vertically and attains aircraft-like performance, but the project is on hold because nobody will back anything so unconventional, and they don't have the funds to repair the prototype after a too-heavy landing.
A suitably acclimatised person can and will sleep through anything, but will wake up if the sound is removed.
Scar tissue peels more readily than regular skin.
Windows Update installs more security holes than it fixes.
Most blogs have a readership of only one.
Politicians are capable of speaking for over an hour without actually saying anything.
The US Army's new bomb disposal robots are controlled with an XBox 360 controller.
At one point, over 80% of france was british territory.
Someone has invented a simple aircraft that takes off vertically and attains aircraft-like performance, but the project is on hold because nobody will back anything so unconventional, and they don't have the funds to repair the prototype after a too-heavy landing.
no waiArcher wrote:
the sky is blue
There are approximately ten million bricks in the Empire State Building
The lightning that we see actually goes from the ground to the sky in what is known as the "return stroke" at 1/3 the speed of light.
From space, the brightest man-made place is Las Vegas, Nevada.
Contrary to common belief, elephants are not afraid of mice. Go to any zoo and chances are that the mice are living in the same quarters as the elephants. The mice eat the grain and nest in the hay that is so common to elephant habitats.
Why do ostriches bury their heads in the sand? They actually don't. In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of eighty years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand (or attempted to do so).
Contrary to popular belief, only one alligator has ever been found in the New York City sewer system. The 125 pound (57 kilogram) alligator was pulled out by four boys way back in 1935.
Everyone knows that spinach is loaded in iron and makes you stronger - Just look what it has done for Popeye's career. Well, Popeye was wrong. So were all of those parents that stuffed it down their kids' throats. In reality, spinach has no more iron in it than any other vegetable. This spinach misconception dates back to the 1950's when a food analyst made an error while calculating the iron in spinach. His decimal place was off by one place, suggesting that spinach had ten times as much iron content than it really did.
No piece of normal-size paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
The first product to have a bar code scanned was Wrigley's gum.
Earth is the only planet not named after a pagan God.
As of 2006, 200 million blogs were left without updates
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. (Makes you think about ambidextrous people)
Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.
The lightning that we see actually goes from the ground to the sky in what is known as the "return stroke" at 1/3 the speed of light.
From space, the brightest man-made place is Las Vegas, Nevada.
Contrary to common belief, elephants are not afraid of mice. Go to any zoo and chances are that the mice are living in the same quarters as the elephants. The mice eat the grain and nest in the hay that is so common to elephant habitats.
Why do ostriches bury their heads in the sand? They actually don't. In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of eighty years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand (or attempted to do so).
Contrary to popular belief, only one alligator has ever been found in the New York City sewer system. The 125 pound (57 kilogram) alligator was pulled out by four boys way back in 1935.
Everyone knows that spinach is loaded in iron and makes you stronger - Just look what it has done for Popeye's career. Well, Popeye was wrong. So were all of those parents that stuffed it down their kids' throats. In reality, spinach has no more iron in it than any other vegetable. This spinach misconception dates back to the 1950's when a food analyst made an error while calculating the iron in spinach. His decimal place was off by one place, suggesting that spinach had ten times as much iron content than it really did.
No piece of normal-size paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
The first product to have a bar code scanned was Wrigley's gum.
Earth is the only planet not named after a pagan God.
As of 2006, 200 million blogs were left without updates
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. (Makes you think about ambidextrous people)
Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.
Temperatures across the world dropped 3 to 6 degrees celcius in the days following 9-11, a result of no airplane contrails in the sky.
The rubble at ground zero burned for 99 days, by far the longest commercial fire in history.
Robert E Lee was George Washington's great grand nephew
On average people spend 2 weeks sitting at red light each year
Mc Donalds has produced enough burgers to stack to the moon and back 8 times
Mules do not occur naturally and have no reproductive organs. They are a human forced cross breed between horses and donkies.
Jamaca sent over 1 airplane to fight in the battle of britain during WWII
The antenna on the empire state building is actually a docking station for blimps, but noone used it because it was too danegrous
On average women say 7000 words per day while men only say just over 2000
The feet account for one quarter of all the human bodies bones
A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph
The End
On average people spend 2 weeks sitting at red light each year
Mc Donalds has produced enough burgers to stack to the moon and back 8 times
Mules do not occur naturally and have no reproductive organs. They are a human forced cross breed between horses and donkies.
Jamaca sent over 1 airplane to fight in the battle of britain during WWII
The antenna on the empire state building is actually a docking station for blimps, but noone used it because it was too danegrous
On average women say 7000 words per day while men only say just over 2000
The feet account for one quarter of all the human bodies bones
A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph
The End
