Total Trivia

[smotherman]

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

 

[smotherman]

The average person laughs about 15 times a day.

 

[smotherman]

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

 

[smotherman]

You share your birthday with at least nine million other people around the world.

 

[smotherman]

While sleeping, one man in eight snores, and one in ten grinds his teeth.

 

[smotherman]

In Hershey, Pennsylvania, the streetlights along "Chocolate Avenue" are in the shape of Hershey Kisses

 

[smotherman]

One plain milk chocolate candy bar has more protein than a banana.

 

[smotherman]

Ten percent of U.S. Recommended Daily Allowance of iron is found in one ounce of baking chocolate or cocoa. Chocolate also contains Vitamins A1, B1, B2, C, D and E as well as calcium, potassium, sodium and iron.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Ten percent of U.S. Recommended Daily Allowance of iron is found in one ounce of baking chocolate or cocoa. Chocolate also contains Vitamins A1, B1, B2, C, D and E as well as calcium, potassium, sodium and iron.

Yet more reasons for eating chocolate

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

With few exceptions, birds do not sing while on the ground. They sing during flight or while sitting on an object off the ground.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The Japanese adore beef, but cannot get enough because the country is too small for large-scale cattle raising. An exception are the cows of Kobe, who live the good life: they drink beer, are massaged three times a day to keep their meat tender, and are sung to, making them feel serene. Kobe beef is world-famous for its flavor, although chances of finding any outside Japan are almost nil. A few restaurants in the United States import the rare commodity, charging more than one hundred dollars for a 16-ounce, one-inch-thick steak.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

In the famous shower scene in the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock chiller Psycho, chocolate syrup was used to simulate blood.

 

[fire_breeze]

One plain milk chocolate candy bar has more protein than a banana.

Ten percent of U.S. Recommended Daily Allowance of iron is found in one ounce of baking chocolate or cocoa. Chocolate also contains Vitamins A1, B1, B2, C, D and E as well as calcium, potassium, sodium and iron.

Hmmm... you make a very strong case to up my daily allotment of chocolate

Not that I really need a case

 

[fire_breeze]

According to a survey by the British Foreign Office among its diplomatic staff, the most difficult language to learn for adult English speakers is Hungarian, followed by Japanese.

Hmm... maybe I should apply. I have one of the two!

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

According to a survey by the British Foreign Office among its diplomatic staff, the most difficult language to learn for adult English speakers is Hungarian, followed by Japanese.

Hmm... maybe I should apply. I have one of the two!

Hunganese or Japarian?

 

[fire_breeze]

Hunganese or Japarian?

*laugh*

In the words of the great DB... Hunuckian!

 

[smotherman]

A lot of lovemaking can unblock a stuffy nose. Sex is a natural antihistamine. It can help combat asthma and hay fever!

 

[smotherman]

Kissing each day will keep the dentist away. Kissing encourages saliva to wash food from the teeth and lowers the level of the acid that causes decay, preventing plaque build-up.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

When a snail hatches from an egg, it is a miniature adult, shell and all. The shell grows with the snail, and the snail never leaves the shell.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The 4,200-meter-high summit of Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano, on the island of Hawaii hosts the world’s largest astronomical observatory, with telescopes operated by astronomers from eleven countries. The combined power of Mauna Kea's telescopes is fifteen times greater than that of the Palomar telescope in California – for many years, the world’s largest – and fifty times greater than that of the Hubble Space Telescope.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

A flea is capable of jumping 13 inches in a single leap. In human terms, this would be equivalent to a person leaping 700 feet in one bound.

 

[desideratum]

I'm being nosey today lol

During arousal the autonomic nervous system fires off signals to trigger changes in the genitals of both men and women. However, the nose also contains erectile tissue, and this may also become engorged during arousal. There is a condition known as honeymoon rhinitis, in which men and women experience nasal stuffiness during sex.

When a person lies, the erectile tissue & blood vessels in their nose dilates, sometimes making the nose swell or appear redder. (making me think there's some 'medical truth' in the story "Pinochio"!) Touching or scratching the nose is a common signal from a person who is not telling the truth.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

I'm being nosey today lol

During arousal the autonomic nervous system fires off signals to trigger changes in the genitals of both men and women. However, the nose also contains erectile tissue, and this may also become engorged during arousal. There is a condition known as honeymoon rhinitis, in which men and women experience nasal stuffiness during sex.

When a person lies, the erectile tissue & blood vessels in their nose dilates, sometimes making the nose swell or appear redder. (making me think there's some 'medical truth' in the story "Pinochio"!) Touching or scratching the nose is a common signal from a person who is not telling the truth.

That's quite interesting my dear, thanks.
I'll bear it in mind the next time I go to a fancy dress party stark naked and with erectile nasal tissue...
"Excuse me, but what have you come dressed as?"
"Fuck knows"

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

About 24 percent of alcoholics die in accidents, falls, fires and suicides.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Most gemstones contain several elements. Except the diamond — it's all carbon.