Total Trivia

[kindtemptress]

Enough beer is poured every Saturday across America to fill the Orange Bowl.

 

[kindtemptress]

Cacao, the main ingredient of chocolate is the most pest-ridden tree in the jungle.

hence all the insect legs in chocolate bars

 

[kindtemptress]

Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80%.

Percentage of American women who say they'd marry the same man: 50%.

 

[kindtemptress]

The main library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

 

[smotherman]

The biggest, boldest and most defiant signature on the Declaration of Independence was by John Hancock. So completely did it overshadow the autographs of the other founding fathers that the term 'John Hancock' has become synonymous with a 'signature' and each of us at the one time or another has most likely spoken of 'putting his 'John Hancock' at the bottom of a document.

Absolutely! Let me put my John Hancock on the dotted line!

If left alone, 70% of brthmarks gradually fade away.

 

[smotherman]

The life span of a taste bud is 10 days.

 

[smotherman]

Women blink twice as many times as men do.

 

[smotherman]

The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in china in 1910.

 

[fire_breeze]

Women blink twice as many times as men do.

That's because we're too busy batting our eyes at the men

 

[fire_breeze]

This is collection of some thought-provoking facts.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

That's because we're too busy batting our eyes at the men

...and thinking, "What an ass!"

 

[fire_breeze]

...and thinking, "What an ass!"

Mmm... most definitely!

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

This is collection of some thought-provoking facts.

A gem of a link, I can't thank you enough fire_breeze, many many thanks

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The albatross will fly non-stop for ten years after leaving its roost to when it lands to breed and is able to soar for up to 6 days without a single flap of its wings.
One amazing bird.

 

[fire_breeze]

A gem of a link, I can't thank you enough fire_breeze, many many thanks

My pleasure

It really puts everything into perspective: we really are in the information age, the technological revolution.

The potential is flabbergasting.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

More than two-thirds of Earth's land surface lies north of the equator.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Half the foods eaten by volume throughout the world today were developed by farmers in the Andes Mountains. Potatoes, maize, squash, beans, peanuts, pineapples, chocolate, tomatoes, peppers, strawberries, and many others were first grown in the region.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Johnny Carson delivered 4,531 opening monologues during his 30 years as host of The Tonight Show.

 

[smotherman]

...and thinking, "What an ass!"

I thought the eye roll is for thinking "what an ass"

 

[smotherman]

That's because we're too busy batting our eyes at the men

LOL! Well, for the record we love that and the eye roll of course.

 

[smotherman]

After eating too much, your hearing is less.

 

[desideratum]

Absolutely! Let me put my John Hancock on the dotted line!

me too

In the West, a half century and more later, the phrase about a 'signature' became altered to 'John Henry,' and nobody knows quite why. Suffice to say that, in the words of Ramon Adams's excellent collection of cowboy jargon, 'Western Words': 'John Henry is what the cowboy calls his signature. He never signs a document, he puts his 'John Henry' to it!'

The name John sure does get a workout in so many ways!

 

[smotherman]

The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.

Thinks of that rude gesture, I'm getting images again

 

[fire_breeze]

LOL! Well, for the record we love that and the eye roll of course.

And off the record... we love that - and the eye batting