Total Trivia

[fire_breeze]

For Valentine's Day 2000, a liqueur manufacturer created the world's largest box of chocolates. The heart-shaped box, assembled in New York City, measured 15 feet high by 15 feet wide and weighed some 1300 pounds. It held the record until November of 2002, when Marshall Fields broke the record with a 2,002 pound box of chocolates in Chicago.

 

[fire_breeze]

A team of medical experts in Virginia contends that you're more likely to catch the common cold virus by shaking hands than by kissing.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The phrase "To not budge an inch" is from Will Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, "Induction," Scene 1. This phrase was first uttered by the drunken tinker Christopher Sly. Sly's refusal to budge altered what had been a neutral verb up until then to a negation, according to word researcher Michael Macrone. As he points out in his book, Brush Up on Your Shakespeare, "No one ever says ‘I budged' or ‘let's budge.'"

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

In China's far province of Guizhou, the Miao people are very superstitious, with strong beliefs in spirits and demons. For marriage approval, a chicken is killed in front of the parties concerned. After the chicken is cooked whole, the size of both its eyes are examined. If both eyes are identical, it symbolizes a blissful union. But if they are of different size, it is considered a bad omen, and the wedding plans canceled. The weight of the chicken is also of importance. Either party that breaks an engagement after the formal announcement must pay the other party an amount of silver equivalent to the weight of the chicken.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

53% of people cannot spell "embarrassed"

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

43% of people cannot spell "millennium"

 

[smotherman]

A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes long. LOL

 

[smotherman]

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body that it could squirt blood 30 feet.

 

[rbijon]

A team of medical experts in Virginia contends that you're more likely to catch the common cold virus by shaking hands than by kissing.

Can we be in the control group? (kissing side)

 

[smotherman]

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

 

[smotherman]

Right-handed people live, on an average, live nine years longer than left-handed people.

 

[smotherman]

The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.

 

[smotherman]

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. (won't go there.)

 

[FallenAngel75]

Every minute of the day we lose about 30,000 to 40,000 dead skin cells off the surface of our skin - that's about 4 kilograms per year of dead skin cells. In fact, about 90% + of the dust in a house is to a great extent comprised of our dead skin cells.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.

THANKS! you just reminded me, my pillows are airing outside --------->

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Every minute of the day we lose about 30,000 to 40,000 dead skin cells off the surface of our skin - that's about 4 kilograms per year of dead skin cells. In fact, about 90% + of the dust in a house is to a great extent comprised of our dead skin cells.

Yes, but.... I haven't lost any weight

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Actress-singer Tina Turner was known as Annie Mae Bullock before she adopted her stage name.

 

[OzArrian]

Willard Scott was the first actor to portray Ronald McDonald

 

[OzArrian]

The ancient Greek term for the dildo was the 'olisbos'....

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The ancient Greek term for the dildo was the 'olisbos'....

The ancient Greeks had dildos? They never taught me that at school

 

[OzArrian]

The ancient Greeks had dildos? They never taught me that at school

Yep...they were usually covered in leather and depicted on pottery, viz...

http://www.greek-islands.us/ancient-greece/sex-in-ancient-greece/Untitled-2.jpg

 

[smotherman]

THANKS! you just reminded me, my pillows are airing outside --------->

You're very welcome! but airing your pillows outside won't do anything. Change your sheets, and beat your pillows regularly. large amounts of dust mites are found breeding in your carpets. Vacuum them regularly.

Also, steam clean those areas!

 

[CaptainKirk]

Just happened to see this on a newsbar at the bottom of my TV...

Did you know that the tongue of a blue whale is as heavy as a full grown, adult elephant? I looked it up; the average weight of a bull (male) elephant is approximately 11,000 pounds!

That's some heavy tongue.

 

[fire_breeze]

Syphilis was known as "the French Disease" in Italy and "the English Disease" in France.

 

[fire_breeze]

French President Francois Faure expired in a bordello in 1899 during the act of copulation, which so terrified his lady of the evening that her vagina constricted intractably, necessitating the surgical removal of the dead man's member.