trivia

TRIVIA
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pronunciation : \ˈtri-vē-ə\
function : noun plural but singular or plural in construction
: unimportant matters

As a child, I enjoyed reading trivia and solving mind-bending puzzles which I usually share with my classmates every morning just before our class started. Sort of like an "energizer" for the whole class. Well, that was about a decade to about half my age ago. Oh my goth! I feel so old! Anyway, some old habits don't just evaporate. And so, I decided to list here some trivia I got through the world wierd web. Not so useless, but highly amusing.

1. Pain travels through your body at 350 ft. per second.

2. A frog can't empty its stomach by vomitting. To empty its stomach contents, a frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

3. The names of all the continents start and end with the same letter.

4. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

5. Coca-Cola was originally colored green.

6. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

7. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

8. Ants always fall over on their right side when intoxicated.

9. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

10. Butterflies taste with their feet.

11. STEWARDESSES is the longest word that can be typed using only the left hand.

12. Shakespeare invented the words 'ASSASSINATION' and 'BUMP'.

13. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

14. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

15. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib.

16. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.

17. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

18. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321.

19. Bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers were all invented by women.

20. Honey, not mothers' milk, is the only food that doesn't spoil.

21. Some people can lick the tip of their nose.

22. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

23. You simply CANNOT lick your elbow.

24. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

25. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

26. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

27. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

28. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

29. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

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

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

32. There are more chickens than people in the world.

33. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

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

35. All of the clocks in the movie "PulpFiction" are stuck on 4:20.

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

37. Almonds are a member of the peach family.

38. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

39. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

40. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

41. In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

42. The characters Bert & Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."

43. A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

44. A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.

45. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

46. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

47. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

48. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

49. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

50. The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

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

52. A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.

53. Elvis had a twin brother named Aaron, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron: in honor of his brother. It is also misspelled on his tomb stone.

54. Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

55. Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes on one foot.

56. If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.

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

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

59. A snail can sleep for 3 years.

60. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

61. "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

62. The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs.

63. The only man-made structure visible on from space is the Great Wall of China.

64. A shrimp's heart is in its head.

65. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because your heart stops for a millisecond.

66. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

67. The serial number of the first MAC ever produced was 2001.

68. Rats and horses can't vomit.

69. Slugs have 4 noses.

70. It snowed in the Sahara desert on February 18, 1979.

71. Coffee drinkers have sex more frequently than non-coffee drinkers.

72. A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

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

74. The dot over the letter "i" is called tittle.

75. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

76. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

77. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

78. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!

79. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

80. 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.

81. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."

82. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.

83. Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

84. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.

85. EMU's and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.

86. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

87. For every 'normal' webpage, there are five porn pages.

88. Sex is biochemically no different from eating large quantities of chocolate.

89. Rats can tell the difference between two human languages.

90. By the age of 60, most people have lost 50% of their taste buds.

91. The great warrior Ghengis Khan died in bed while having sex.

92. A bird 'chews' with its stomach.

93. Eagles mate while airborne.

94. Koalas are excellent swimmers.

95. Turkeys can reproduce without having sex.

96. Antarctica is a desert.

97. Seaweed is used to thicken ice cream.

98. Some salamanders can grow up to five feet in length!

99. A marine catfish can taste with any part of its body.

100. You can't create a folder called 'con' in Microsoft Windows!

[Thanks to www.nicefacts.com, thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com, and those ambermailmates.]

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