Total Trivia

[smotherman]

An average human burp provides the capacity to fill 1/64th of a regular-sized balloon.

 

[smotherman]

The average ball point pen contains enough ink to draw a thin line from San Diego to Anaheim, California.

 

[smotherman]

Blind chess players keep track of their games using special bells placed on each chess piece.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

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

I wonder if that will include pet snakes and goldfish?

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Research has found that women generally own 100 items of clothing yet only wear 30 of them.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Cosmopolitan (UK) found that shopping trips consume women's thoughts dozens of times a day and hundreds of times a week.
Of 778 women aged 19 to 45 interviewed, 74% said they think about shopping every minute.
Previous studies have claimed that men think about sex with a similar frequency.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The letter E is the most commonly used letter of the English language, being used over 56 times more than Q (the least common) in forming individual English words. But the frequency of letters at the beginnings of words is different. There are more English words beginning with the letter 'S' than with any other letter. (This is mainly because clusters such as 'sc', 'sh', 'sp', and 'st' act almost like independent letters.) The letter 'e' only comes about halfway down this order.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

A single sneeze expels 100,000 droplets into the air at a speed of 90 mph.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Laughing is good for your health because the immune system works better when we are happy.

 

[college_boy87]

The images seen by each eye are interpreted by the opposite side of your brain (Left eye = right hemisphere)

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The images seen by each eye are interpreted by the opposite side of your brain (Left eye = right hemisphere)

Is that why I bump into things when I'm drunk?

We each have a strong eye and a weak eye. Try pointing your finger at an object on the other side of the room as if aiming to shoot it. Now close each eye in turn and see what happens.
The eye that is still aiming at it is the strongest, the one that is way off mark is your weakest.

 

[college_boy87]

Is that why I bump into things when I'm drunk?

Nah, that's just cause your drunk

It takes the human body one hour to process a "drink" of alcohol (one shot of hard liquor, one beer, etc..)

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

It takes the human body one hour to process a "drink" of alcohol (one shot of hard liquor, one beer, etc..)

I seem to remember that body mass has a lot to do with it as well and one reason why women get drunk quicker.

 

[college_boy87]

I seem to remember that body mass has a lot to do with it as well and one reason why women get drunk quicker.

It does, that's an average figure. It's about how much blood you have, because it's your blood alcohol content that makes you feel "drunk"

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Alcohol is not a stimulant, as most people think, it is a depressant.

 

[smotherman]

Children conceived on airplanes never suffer from motion sickness.

 

[smotherman]

The melody of the classic hymn "Amazing Grace" originated from a 12th-century pagan song celebrating masturbation.

 

[smotherman]

Every common food product, with the exception of fish and veal, contains some traces of peanut enzymes.

 

[smotherman]

Tap dancers frequently forget to breathe normally during difficult routines, resulting in an average of 200 tap dancing-related tragedies per year.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Massachusetts astronomer Maria Mitchell discovered a comet on October 1, 1847, becoming the first woman to do so while using a telescope. King Frederick of Denmark awarded her a gold medal for her discovery, and the Republic of San Marino presented her with a copper medal. Later, Mitchell was made a professor of astronomy at Vassar. Her special studies focused on sunspots, nebulae, and satellites. Mitchell was a role model and icon for many women of that period; she was the first woman to be elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. A crater on the moon was named after her.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The average adult has between 40 and 50 billion fat cells.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Centipedes, or members of the class Chilopoda, always have an uneven number of pairs of walking legs, varying from 15 to more than 171 pairs. Common house centipedes (Scutigera coleoptrato) have 15 pairs of legs.

 

[smotherman]

More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.

 

[smotherman]

Women shoplift more often than men; the statistics are 4 to 1.

 

[smotherman]

About 10% of the world's population is left-handed.