Total Trivia

[smotherman]

Polar bears are left-handed. (If they switch, they'll live a lot longer.)

 

[smotherman]

Just twenty seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.

 

[smotherman]

Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.

 

[fire_breeze]

Women can talk longer with less effort than can men. That has been proved repeatedly. Why? Because the vocal cords of women are shorter than those of men and so release less air through them to carry the sound. It's all a matter of breathing

 

[fire_breeze]

Many an early wooden bathtub was fitted with a shelf across the middle to hold food and drink. Oval in shape, said tub was 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 it fell out of favor when Queen Victoria moved the morality of the western world.

 

[fire_breeze]

When Buster Mitchell's girlfriend walked out on him, he went back to his beloved and decided to make it legal with her. Mitchell, 28, went to the county courthouse in Knoxville, Tenn., and started filling out the marriage license application. He listed his fiancee's birthplace as Detroit, her father as "Henry Ford" and her blood type as "10-W-40" before the clerk stopped him -- Mitchell was trying to get a license to marry his car, a '66 Ford Mustang GT. "Why can't we do the good ol' boy thing and marry our cars and trucks?" he lamented later. He plans to try again elsewhere.

 

[Daizie]

If you shout to a friend underwater, she'll hear you faster than on land. Sound travels four times faster in water than in air.

 

[Daizie]

The first ferris wheel ever built was also one of the largest! The wheel, named after its builder — George Ferris, was 250 feet in diameter and held thirty-six 60- passenger cars.

It was built in Chicago in 1893, but taken down about a decade later. Today, no ferris wheel in the world is more than 200 feet in diameter.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Just twenty seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.

Geez! Now that's what I call cutting it fine

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The whaleshark is the largest living fish on the planet and can weigh up to 35 tons. Their skins are the thickest of any animal on earth.

 

[Erotichat]

Other than being aesthetically appealing the red line at the neck of the bowling pin serves no useful purpose.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Formic acid squirted by ants is used to relieve the pain of arthritis.

 

[smotherman]

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

 

[smotherman]

Every minute in the U.S. six people turn 17.

 

[smotherman]

Guinness Book Of Records holds the record for being the book most stolen from Public Libraries.

 

[smotherman]

Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.

 

[smotherman]

If you attempted to count to stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.

 

[smotherman]

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

 

[fire_breeze]

Do you know at what time of day or night you were born? Theory is spreading that your birth sets your physical clocks to ticking, thus determining at the outset whether you were to be a day or night person. If you were born around dawn, you're thought to do your best work in the early morning. But if you were born in the late afternoon, you're not expected to perk up really until the evening. Or so goes the notion.

Actually, seeing as I was born at night, and I am not a morning person, this might be valid. At least, in my case

 

[fire_breeze]

Legislators in Santa Fe, New Mexico, are considering a law that would require pets to wear seat belts when traveling in a car

 

[fire_breeze]

Jimmy Carter once reported a UFO in Georgia.

 

[fire_breeze]

In the film Forrest Gump, all the still photos show Forrest with his eyes closed.

 

[fire_breeze]

U.K. telecom provider Telewest Broadband is testing a device that hooks to your PC and wafts a scent when certain e-mails arrive.

the iScent?

 

[desideratum]

U.K. telecom provider Telewest Broadband is testing a device that hooks to your PC and wafts a scent when certain e-mails arrive.

the iScent?

omg lookout for scents that might waft with 'certain' junk emails lol

 

[desideratum]

Our sense of smell is responsible for 80% of what we taste and the average person can recognize over 10,000 scents.

A study showed that women who wore a cinnamon or lavender scent were perceived to be more intelligent and successful.

Just like Birthstones & Birthflowers -- there is now a "Birthscent"
January - peppermint
February - chocolate
March - coffee
April - spearmint
May - strawberry
June - buttercream
July - sugar
August - peach
September - licorice
October - pumpkin
November - vanilla
December - cinnamon