Total Trivia

[smotherman]

47% of dogs in the United States sleep in a family member's bed

 

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19% of American households do not have a cell phone.

 

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A man stabbed his barber because he didn't like his haircut.

Seems a bit drastic, that must have been one hell of a nasty haircut.

 

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The average human body contains enough iron to make a 3 inch long nail.

 

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There are more germs on your body than people in the United States.

 

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500 people suffer from sickening or deadly food poisoning each day.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Adolf Hitler received more fan mail during the 1930's and 40's than The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Madonna combined.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The first recorded serial killer was Liu Pengli, cousin of Emporor Jing of China.. Operating at night from around 144 to 121 BC, he murdered more than 100 people for 'sheer sport'

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The well known song "Happy Birthday To You" was written as a classroom greeting in 1893 by two Louisville teachers.

 

[Yes_YEs_YES]

A raisin dropped in a fresh glass of soda will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

A raisin dropped in a fresh glass of soda will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.

Can I try the same with champagne please?

 

[Yes_YEs_YES]

Can I try the same with champagne please?

It would be my beverage of choice as well



On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The longest firemans' pole in Europe is 40 feet long in Birmingham, UK.
Calm down girls

 

[skinneydip]

The longest rice noodles are claimed by Chinese chefs. It was 420.4 meters of long rice noodles, weighing over 63 kilogram, which they claimed to be the world`s longest noodles, outside a noodle shop in Zhengzhou, in central China`s Henan province .

 

[smotherman]

Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women!

 

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It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.

 

[smotherman]

Every person has a unique tongue print.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Before all-porcelain false teeth were perfected in the mid-19th century, dentures were commonly made with teeth pulled from the mouths of dead soldiers following a battle. Teeth extracted from U.S. Civil War soldier cadavers were shipped to England by the barrel to dentists.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

It was while he was examining urine, seeking the philosopher's stone (the magic elixir needed to change base metals into gold), that German chemist Hennig Brand discovered phosphorus.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

According to a Motorcycle Industry Council survey conducted in 1994, the average motorcyclist is male, age 32.5 years (up from the average in the 1980s of 27.5 years), married, and has some college education; his annual income averages $33,200.

 

[fire_breeze]

The Planters Peanut Company mascot, Mr. Peanut, was created during a contest for schoolchildren in 1916

 

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Throughout the South, peanuts were known as "Monkey Nuts," and "Goober peas," before the civil war

 

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The fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth is called Arachibutyrophobia

 

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Incas used to create pots in the shape of peanuts that were highly prized

 

[fire_breeze]

The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want

That happens to me all the time