Total Trivia

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The Professor on Gilligan's Island was named Roy Hinkley. The Skipper was named Jonas Grumby. Both names were used only once in the entire series, on the first episode.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

According to one U.S. study, about 25 percent of all adolescent and adult males never use deodorant.

 

[smotherman]

Only female mosquitoes bites humans and drinks their blood. Male mosquitoes are much bigger than females, but they are harmless to the humans. Female mosquito uses blood to produce eggs since certain proteins are needed for reproduction. Actually mosquitoes are principally nectar feeders except of course for the females. However, mosquito family Toxorhynchites never drinks blood.

 

[MikeCasanova]

Malaria, one of the most prevalent mosquito-borne diseases, affects anywhere from 350,000,000 to 500,000,000 people every year worldwide, including 1,000,000 fatal cases. Most of these occur in sub-Saharan Africa, where treatment for malaria is scarce, and poverty is high enough that many families wouldn't be able to afford it anyway.

 

[smotherman]

The odds are 1 out of 14 (7.2%) that a car accident in the United States is a result of a distraction caused by a cell phone.

 

[smotherman]

About 80% of all marijuana grown outdoors in the United States is on state or federal land, usually in parks or forest reserves.

 

[smotherman]

There are 489 billionaires in the United States.

 

[smotherman]

If you smell roses while you're sleeping, you're more apt to have pleasant dreams. The scent of rotten eggs is more likely to cause nightmares.

 

[smotherman]

Children with a history of moderate to severe ear infections tend to become overweight adults.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

According to a recent survey, 75 percent of people who play the car radio while driving also sing along with it.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

French law stipulates that to be called “Roquefort,” a cheese must come only from that village in France, but the name is used, imitated, and abused widely.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

According to the U.S. government, people have tried more than 28,000 different ways to lose weight.

 

[southerntierguy]

The very first Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in 1924 didn't have balloons. Instead, real live animals were borrowed from the Central Park Zoo.

The first year that Macy's used helium balloons they released them at the end of the parade for a big finish. The balloons accidentally burst. The next year the Macy's parade balloons were redesigned so that they would lose helium slowly and float for several days. The grandiose balloons had attached address labels. The lucky people who found and returned the balloons received Macy's gift certificates for $100 or some other prize.

There was a helium shortage in 1958 that forced the balloons to be filled with air and hung from cranes instead of the traditional floating and bobbing.

 

[smotherman]

A September 2008 Florida Marlins home game against the Atlanta Braves drew only 584 fans, in a stadium that holds 38,500.

 

[smotherman]

If you are a pregnant woman, if you eat a bowl of cereal each week, it is 87% more likely that will give birth to a boy.

 

[smotherman]

An average adult is covered by 20 square feet of skin.

 

[smotherman]

Children who don't get enough sleep may be increasing their risk for obesity.

 

[fire_breeze]

Most recent research indicates just about 9,000 romantic couples each year take out marriage licenses, then fail to use them.

 

[fire_breeze]

An ordinance in Carmel, California, makes it unlawful for a lady to take a bath in a business office.

 

[fire_breeze]

The one who plays hard to get tends to inspire more passion in the person who is trying to do the getting. And the romantic pushover inspires less amorous interest.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The one who plays hard to get tends to inspire more passion in the person who is trying to do the getting. And the romantic pushover inspires less amorous interest.

Never has a truer word been spoken

 

[fire_breeze]

Never has a truer word been spoken

When I read the fact, I was wondering about those who don't play hard to get but are completely clueless

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

birth of a new ocean basin...

The fissure, now 13 feet wide, formed in just three weeks after a Sept. 14, 2005 earthquake in the Fara desert in Ethiopia.
Each year, the fissure would widen by 0.8 inches. The crust beneath the Afar region is similar to that under the Red Sea.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

When I read the fact, I was wondering about those who don't play hard to get but are completely clueless

Each to our own, the world would be a trivial place if we were all the same I guess

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

birth of a new ocean...

The African and Asian tectonic plates have been moving apart for millions of years already. This 'split' in the earth's crust can be seen clearly throughout the Rift Valley of East Africa and as far north as the Dead Sea.