Total Trivia

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The childhood word game Hangman was the inspiration for TV's Wheel of Fortune.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

More than 75 million people are estimated to have been killed by earthquakes in the history of our planet.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

About 30 percent of NBA players sport tattoos, compared with about 4 percent of the nation's population.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The most destructive tornado on record occurred in Annapolis, Missouri. In 3 hours, it tore through the town on March 18, 1925, leaving a 980-foot-wide trail of demolished buildings, uprooted trees, and overturned cars. It left 823 people dead and almost 3,000 injured.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Lafayette was a major general in the United States at the age of 19. Lafayette's whole name takes up an entire line on a page: Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette.

 

[desideratum]

long name!

After becoming the first European to cross North America by land north of Mexico, Sir Alexander MacKenzie chronicled his journey in his book; 'Voyages from Montreal on the River St Lawrence through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans.'
phewww!

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

long name!

The longest 'real' word in the English language is floccinaucinihillipilification with 29 letters. Its meaning is 'the act of estimating as worthless'

 

[deviladvocate]

longest road in the world?

Name: Pan-American Highway
Length: 24,140 Km - 15,000 Miles
Start: Fairbanks, Alaska
End: Brasilia, Brazil

 

[desideratum]

The letter combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. This sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."

 

[desideratum]

The longest french fry in a bunch is called a loomster

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

On August 4, 2006 a hot dog measuring 60m in a bun measuring 60.3m was made by the Shizuoka Meat Producers of Shizuoka, Japan and the All-Japan Bread Association to obtain the world record. International media was onhand, and supporting documents have been verified by Guinness.
After the official measurement, the hot dog was cut up and eaten by those present.

 

[_Misty_]

The Spartans had one celebration called the Festival of the Cleaver. The entertainment at these festivities was that the Spartans would nail sausages to the wall and watch older, toothless men gnaw on them.

 

[mickyp123]

I am. is the shortest complete sentence in the english language

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends in "und"

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

longest road in the world?

Name: Pan-American Highway
Length: 24,140 Km - 15,000 Miles
Start: Fairbanks, Alaska
End: Brasilia, Brazil

I've been thinking about this, it's a simple A to B, Alaska to Brazil
What a pity it doesn't start in Anchorage as well as ending in Brasilia

 

[mickyp123]

The Spartans had one celebration called the Festival of the Cleaver. The entertainment at these festivities was that the Spartans would nail sausages to the wall and watch older, toothless men gnaw on them.

Hence "Walls" Sausages

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Hence "Walls" Sausages

Laughs My Tits Off

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

There has never been an American President who was an only child.

 

[MSH2]

Laughs My Tits Off

*steals them and runs off, possibly to ransom them back again*

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

*steals them and runs off, possibly to ransom them back again*

Look after them for me and treat them tenderly, they are 100% natural.

The earliest known breast implants were made from goat's milk or parafin wax and were injected directly into the chests of Japanese prostitutes during WWI.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

19-19-19 are the peculiar vital statistics of Olive Oyl - the cartoon character of Popeye's girlfriend.

 

[mickyp123]

*steals them and runs off, possibly to ransom them back again*

trips you up,..........your busted

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

trips you up,..........your busted

Britain has 20% of the world's CCTV cameras - one for every fourteen people.
You're nicked MSH2

 

[mickyp123]

Britain has 20% of the world's CCTV cameras - one for every fourteen people.
You're nicked MSH2

once again caught with his hands full.....

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

About one-third of British women are blonde but only 3% are naturally so