Total Trivia

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The actress who played Dr Crusher in Star Trek was born Cheryl Gates McFadden on 1949-03-02 at Cuyahoga Falls.

And I think she's still beautiful....

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[fire_breeze]

Earth and ship are the only two inanimate nouns that I'm aware of that bear a gender. Both are referred to as "She" and both can carry the prefix 'Mother'.
I would be interested to hear if there are others.

Cars

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

La Paz, Bolivia, is the highest city in the world at 11,942 feet above sea level.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Ulan Bator, Mongolia, is the coldest city in the world with an average temperature of -1.3C.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

At 60 square miles Lake Manitou, on Manitoulin Island, on Lake Huron is the largest lake in the world on an island on a lake.

I like that one

 

[smotherman]

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

 

[smotherman]

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

 

[smotherman]

Dogs have two sets of teeth, just like humans. They first have 30 "puppy" teeth, then 42 adult teeth.

 

[smotherman]

Some dogs can predict when a child will have an epileptic seizure, and even protect the child from injury. They're not trained to do this, they simply learn to respond after observing at least one attack.

 

[fire_breeze]

Hawaii is the only state that grows coffee.

 

[fire_breeze]

There are no racial or ethnic majorities in Hawaii. Everyone is a minority. Caucasians (Haoles) constitute about 34%; Japanese-American about 32%; Filipino-American about 16% and Chinese-American about 5%. It is very difficult to determine racial identification as most of the population has some mixture of ethnicities.

 

[fire_breeze]

Honolulu is the largest city in the world -- at least it has the longest borders. According to the state constitution any island (or islet) not named as belonging to a county belongs to Honolulu. This makes all islands within the Hawaiian Archipelago, that stretch to Midway Island (1,500 miles northwest of Hawaii) part of Honolulu. Honolulu is about 1,500 miles long or more distance than halfway across the 48 contiguous states.

 

[fire_breeze]

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - He just called to say he loved her. The problem was he did it over and over, running up a phone bill of at least $117,000 to his sweetheart in India. Now the 24-year-old Dane could face jail for fraud because he can't pay the bill, police said Friday. The lovesick Dane, whose name was not released, has never even met his 18-year-old flame from Madras, India. They got in touch through a magazine that publishes names and phone numbers of people all over the world who want to know foreigners. But the Dane clearly couldn't resist the sound of her voice. Police said the long-distance lovebirds once spent 21 of 24 hours on the phone to each other. He got away with it for so long by switching telephone companies.

 

[fire_breeze]

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

Obviously, I'm doing something wrong

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The expression 'As mad as a hatter' does not come from the character in Alice in Wonderland as I always believed.

Over the centuries, the use of mercury in the hat-making industry was widespread. Exposure to high levels of mercury left many milliners with uncontrollable shakes and aggressive mood-swings, often mistaken for signs of madness.

 

[fire_breeze]

Pliny, the Roman naturalist, out of whose account of the unicorn most of the modern unicorns have been described and figured, records it as "a very ferocious beast, similar in the rest of its body to a horse, with the head of a deer, the feet of an elephant, the tail of a boar, a deep bellowing voice, and a single black horn, two cubits in length, standing out in the middle of its forehead." He adds that "it cannot be taken alive"; and some such excuse may have been necessary in those days for not producing the living animal upon the arena of the amphitheatre.

 

[fire_breeze]

But it seems that hunters found out how to circumvent the poor unicorn at last. They discovered that it was a great lover of purity and innocence, so they took the field with a young virgin, who was placed in the unsuspecting admirer's way. When the unicorn spied her, he approached with all reverence, couched beside her, and laying his head in her lap, fell asleep. The treacherous virgin then gave a signal, and the hunters made in and captured the simple beast.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Emilee Cox, 14, from Florida has clocked up an astonishing 35,463 sent and received text messages to her boyfriend and friends in one month.
Assuming she slept 8 hours a day, that is about 74 messages an hour. Luckily her mobile phone contract allows unlimited texts.

The world record is held by a man in India who logged 182,689 texts in a month.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

French for the vagina is "le vagin"

It's masculine? WTF!

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

A hundred and twenty years ago 80% of the inhabitants of France did not speak French.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

"Paris Syndrome" is an extreme form of culture shock that affects Japanese tourists. A 24 hour helpline is available in the Japanese embassy in Paris to assist those affected.

 

[fire_breeze]

French for the vagina is "le vagin"

It's masculine? WTF!

You'd be surprised what in the masculine in French

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

You'd be surprised what in the masculine in French

I'm intrigued, every cell in my body is asking WHY?

 

[fire_breeze]

I'm intrigued, every cell in my body is asking WHY?

Because it's French. That's it, that's all, merci et salut la visite.

At least cell is feminine

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Because it's French. That's it, that's all, merci et salut la visite.

At least cell is feminine

"Because it's French" can't argue with that

Here's a true (and trivial) French story...

Several years ago we, as a family, visited Paris and did all the usual touristy things. My french is minimal but more than my ex-husband's and my two children's knowledge of the language. So, here we are at the ticket booth for the Eiffel Tower and I'm embarking on a conversation to purchase the tickets. I translate it into english for comprehension...

Me: Three adults and one child to the third level please.
Lady: How old is the child?
Me: It's eleven o'clock.

Oops!