Total Trivia

[smotherman]

Men without hair on their chests are more likely to get cirrhosis of the liver than men with hair.

 

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Your teeth start developing (in your gums) 6 months before you are born.

 

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The most common street name in the U.S. is Second Street.

 

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You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

 

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You can use pinecones to forecast the weather--the scales will close when rain is on the way.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

At the height of the teddy bear's huge popularity in the early 1900s, there is record of one Michigan priest who publicly denounced the teddy as an insidious weapon. He claimed that the stuffed toy would lead to the destruction of the instincts of motherhood and eventual racial suicide.

What?

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Charles Lindbergh was not the first man to fly the Atlantic. He was the sixty-seventh. The first sixty-six made the crossing in dirigibles and twin-engine mail planes. Lindbergh was the first to make the dangerous flight alone.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Sports historians have traced roller skating to the early 1800s when an unknown Dutchman sought to find a warm-weather equivalent to ice skating. He decided to attach wooden disks to shoes; after a short period of refinement, roller skating became a popular pastime in Holland. The sport attained even greater popularity among the North American public with the introduction of the steel wheel with ball bearings.

 

[fire_breeze]

Anton Chekhov, the great playwright, dangerously ill on his death bed, sat up straight and asked for champagne. Smiling, he examined the glass and said "It's been a long time since I've had champagne," drained it, laid back down and died.

 

[smotherman]

More than 90 percent of violent crimes are committed within 24 hours of eating bread.

 

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Half of all children who grow up in bread-consuming households score below average on standardized tests.

 

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Sneezing may be a symptom of pregnancy. Expectant mothers often sneeze for no apparent reason.

 

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In a typical restaurant, customers get 27 cents worth of food for each dollar they spend.

 

[smotherman]

It is tradition in countries such as Venezuela and Peru to wear yellow underwear on New Year's Day for good luck throughout the coming year.

 

[fire_breeze]

More than 90 percent of violent crimes are committed within 24 hours of eating bread.

Then the solution is to always eat bread

Half of all children who grow up in bread-consuming households score below average on standardized tests.

Unless they eat freshly baked bread

 

[fire_breeze]

Assuming a sandwich was eaten for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, it would take 168 days to eat the amount of bread produced from one bushel of wheat. A family of four could live 10 years off the bread produced by one acre of wheat.

 

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Early Egyptian writings urged mothers to send their children to school with plenty of bread and beer for their lunch.

 

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In 1997, Kansas wheat farmers produced enough wheat to make 36.5 billion loaves of bread, or enough to provide each person on earth with 6 loaves of bread.

Bread is probably the one food eaten by people of every race, culture and religion.

According to Hungarian tradition, it is considered to be a grievous sin (and bad luck) to throw away bread. If bread for whatever reason must be discarded, it will be either burned in a fire (preferred) or buried in the ground.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

A wry observation from journalist Linda Ellerbee: "I've seen Bill Gates, and money can buy you many things, but it doesn't necessarily buy a decent haircut."

 

[smotherman]

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

 

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Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.

 

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

 

[Daizie]

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

This sounds like something Gil Grissom would say on CSI.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Combined, the Monkees’ first two albums were Number 1 for 31 consecutive weeks. Their single “I’m a Believer” was the Number 1 record of 1967.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The first American-built West Coast lighthouse was that of Alcatraz Lighthouse in 1854.