Total Trivia

[smotherman]

The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.

 

[SinnamonSecret]

Trivia

The word trivia comes from Rome where three, "tri" roads, "via" met and people gathered to find out what was happening on the other sides of town. Hence:Trivia!

 

[desideratum]

Every photograph of an American atomic bomb was taken by Harold Edgerton

(is he still alive after doing that?)

edit: he died in 1990 -- heart attack

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

President James Garfield could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other – simultaneously. Leonardo da Vinci could draw with one hand and write with the other – also simultaneously.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

A pig is a hog — but a hog is not a pig. "Hog" is a generic name for all swine. Per hog-raising terminology, a pig is a baby hog less than ten weeks old.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The moon is always falling. It has a sideways motion of its own that balances its falling motion. It therefore stays in a closed orbit about the Earth, never falling altogether and never escaping altogether.

 

[exividere2]

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[Gaia_Lorraine]

"Knightsbridge" (an area of West London) consists of 13 letters only 3 of which are vowels and is the only known word in English that possesses 6 consecutive consonants.

 

[RUlookingup]

In Party Doll A Go-Go, the actress Jeanna Fine looks directly into the camera and states, "I've never wrapped my lips around a throbbing johhny." This is a lie!

 

[EesomeBeastie]

The female red mason bee makes a nest of mud, often in cracks in walls, with cells packed with pollen for the larvae.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Dolly Parton's first two hits were "Dumb Blonde" and "Something Fishy."

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

According to a recent study 95% of internet traffic is spam whereas porn, unbelievably to LIT users, constitutes less than 1%.

Not according to my PC it isn't!

 

[smotherman]

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

Oh man, that freakin mental image is back.

 

[smotherman]

99% of the solar systems mass is concentrated in the sun.

 

[smotherman]

Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.

 

[smotherman]

If your eyes are six feet above the surface of the ocean, the horizon will be about three statute miles away.

 

[smotherman]

75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.

 

[smotherman]

Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.

 

[fire_breeze]

First novel ever written on a typewriter was "Tom Sawyer"

 

[fire_breeze]

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 would marry the same man: 50
Percentage of men who say they are happier after their divorce or separation: 58
Percentage of women who say they are happier: 85


Hmm...

 

[fire_breeze]

Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation

 

[rbijon]

There are some among us that can speak the name Tigana!
But many more that have forgotten the lessons of history.

 

[fire_breeze]

Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses

 

[Fo55ilise]

Barleycorn

The barleycorn is a unit of measurement. 3 Barleycorns equal one inch. It's still used of course, each shoe size is one barleycorn larger than the last.