Total Trivia

[fire_breeze]

Ninety percent of people in the world engage in kisses on the lips, anthropologists say.

 

[fathom7]

Ninety percent of people in the world engage in kisses on the lips, anthropologists say.

Wanna play a little game of The Ten Percenters?

 

[fire_breeze]

Wanna play a little game of The Ten Percenters?

And how does one play...?

 

[smotherman]

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

 

[smotherman]

Toxic house plants poison more children than household chemicals.

 

[southerntierguy]

Some early wooden bathtubs were fitted with a shelf across the middle to hold food and drink. These oval tubs were designed so two people could face each other over the shelf, and dine. The practice was practical, to get the maximum out of a minimum of hot water, but fell out of favor when Queen Victoria suggested a new morality for the western world.

 

[southerntierguy]

Besides the genitals and the breasts, the inner nose is the only other body part that routinely swells during intercourse.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Because its eyeball is fixed, the whale must move its huge body to shift its line of sight.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Cleopatra took her first lover at the age of 12.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

There are eight bones in a human wrist.

 

[smotherman]

Snakes can see through their eyelids.

 

[smotherman]

The giant squid has the largest eyes of any animal. They can be 39 cm across, which is 16 times wider than a human eye.

 

[smotherman]

Some animals can regrow parts of their bodies if damaged. Starfish can grow new 'arms.' Slow-worms can regrow broken-off tails. Lizards can grow new tails.

 

[smotherman]

Many birds migrate, but the Arctic tern travels furthest. It flies from the Arctic to the Antarctic, and back again, a trip of 32,000 kilometers.

 

[desideratum]

Giraffes can't swim and they are also unable to cough.

 

[desideratum]

and my favorite one today: a Chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body!

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The eye is the only part of the human body that can function at 100% ability at any moment, day or night, without rest. Your eyelids need rest, the external muscles of your eyes need rest, the lubrication of your eyes requires replenishment, but your eyes themselves "never" need rest.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Eyes are composed of more than two million working parts and can process 36,000 bits of information every hour.

Under the right conditions they can discern the light of a candle at a distance of 14 miles.

They contribute towards 85% of our total knowledge and utilize 65% of all the pathways to the brain.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Eyes can instantaneously set in motion hundreds of muscles and organs in your body.

In a normal life-span they will bring you almost 24 million images of the world around you.

The external muscles that move the eyes are the strongest muscles in the human body for the job that they have to do. They are 100 times more powerful than they need to be.

The adult eyeball measures about 1 inch (2.5 cm) in diameter. Of its total surface area only one-sixth is exposed -- the front portion.

 

[desideratum]

wow, I never knew all those interesting things about eyes!

It requires 30 muscles to raise your eyebrows.
If your mouth was completely dry, you wouldn't be able to taste.
The rumbling sound in your stomach, from hunger, is called a borborygmi.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

wow, I never knew all those interesting things about eyes!

I (no pun intended) agree! I was fascinated

Some more...

The study of the iris of the eye is called iridology.

The shark cornea has been used in eye surgery, since it is similar to a human cornea.

The number one cause of blindness in adults in the United States is diabetes.

The eyeball of a human weighs approximately 28 grams.

The eye of a human can distinguish 500 shades of the gray.

The cornea is the only living tissue in the human body that does not contain any blood vessels.

 

[smotherman]

The idea for "tribbles" in "Star Trek" came from gerbils, since some gerbils are actually born pregnant.

 

[smotherman]

Catfish are the only animals that naturally have an ODD number of whiskers.

 

[smotherman]

Urine from male cape water buffaloes is so flammable that some tribes use it for lantern fuel.

 

[smotherman]

Coca-Cola was the favored drink of Pharaoh Ramses. An inscription found in his tomb, when translated, was found to be almost identical to the recipe used today.