Total Trivia

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Centuries ago, purchasing real estate often required having one or more limbs amputated in order to prevent the purchaser from running away to avoid repayment of the loan. Hence an expensive purchase was said to cost "an arm and a leg."

 

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The world's smartest pig, owned by a mathematics teacher in Madison, WI, memorized the multiplication tables up to 12.

 

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Bono is the only person, who has been nominated for an Oscar, Grammy, Golden Globe, and a Nobel Prize.

 

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U2 released its first international single "11 O'Clock Tick Tock" in May 1980 and released its first album, Boy the following October

 

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The largest audience at a U2 show was in September 1997 on their PopMart tour. There were 150,000 at the show in Italy

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The world's smartest pig, owned by a mathematics teacher in Madison, WI, memorized the multiplication tables up to 12.

Damn pig's smarter than me!

 

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There are 18 public swimming pools in the city of Birmingham (UK)

 

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The Niagara Falls ran dry on March 29, 1848, after an ice dam further up the Niagara River blocked the flow of water from Lake Erie. People were able to walk along the river bed for a day before the ice broke.

 

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The largest snowflake ever recorded measured an amazing 38cm across, and fell on Fort Keogh in Montana on 28 January, 1887. A local rancher described the snowflakes as 'larger than milk pans.'

 

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The world's largest snowperson was constructed in Bethel, Maine, in February 2008. Standing over 122 feet tall, the creation was named Olympia SnowWoman, in honour of Maine's senior senator Olympia Snowe. She had skis for eyelashes.

 

[EesomeBeastie]

A book I'm reading (Shots From the Front) claims that the origin of the phrase "gone pear shaped" comes from inflating observation balloons in the First World War, where if the tension was not kept even the gas would stretch one end of the oval balloon more than the other and it would be said to have "gone pear shaped."

Oh, and another piece of First World War trivia: reading the Biggles books (yeah, revisiting my childhood favourites) they use the term "fanned down" rather than "blown up" for things destroyed by dropped bombs. From the airman's point of view, destroyed hangars and the like would appear to collapse downwards, not be blown upwards.

 

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The Fifteen Most Sexually Unappealing Porn Titles

15-Crack Whores of The Tenderloin
14-ATM Machines
13-Girth, Wind and Fire
12-Anal Chiropractor
11-Blowing Up Asses
10-Don't Tell Mommy
9-Faces with Braces
8-Edward Penishands (starring Jeanna Fine)
7-Interview With an Enema
6-Mouthful of Ass
5-Dude, Where's My Cunt?
4-Big Omar's British Adventure - London Cunt Hunt
3-30 Days in the Hole
2-There's A Black Man In My Wife's Ass
1-Dirt Pipe Milkshakes

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The Fifteen Most Sexually Unappealing Porn Titles

15-Crack Whores of The Tenderloin
14-ATM Machines
13-Girth, Wind and Fire
12-Anal Chiropractor
11-Blowing Up Asses
10-Don't Tell Mommy
9-Faces with Braces
8-Edward Penishands (starring Jeanna Fine)
7-Interview With an Enema
6-Mouthful of Ass
5-Dude, Where's My Cunt?
4-Big Omar's British Adventure - London Cunt Hunt
3-30 Days in the Hole
2-There's A Black Man In My Wife's Ass
1-Dirt Pipe Milkshakes

ATM machines are sexually unappealing? Since when?

 

[RUlookingup]

ATM is an acronym for ASS-to-MOUTH

 

[Steve_B]

Tim

Tim Henman was the first player to be disqualified from Wimbledon.

He was angry and hit a ball which hit a ball boy on the side of the head.

Jennifer Lopez is the only person to have a number one album and number one film in America in the same week

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

ATM is an acronym for ASS-to-MOUTH

No wonder I couldn't get my money out!

 

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The largest living organism in the world, going by weight, is probably a colony of 47,000 Quaking Aspen trees in Utah, all growing from a single root. It weighs an estimated 6,000 tonnes, and has been nicknamed 'Pando' (Latin for 'I spread').

 

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The Chinese New Year causes the largest mass movement of people on the planet - over two billion journeys are undertaken as people travel to celebrate with their families. Gong hei fat choi!

 

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In seventeenth-century Europe people made anagrams from names and believed these words formed from rearranging the letters would give a clue to a person's characteristics. Teresa is a teaser, Pat is apt, Greta is great, Mona likes to moan, and Dora travels on the road.

 

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The people of Indonesia may change their names after they have suffered some misfortune or have had a serious illness. They believe a new name will confuse the evil spirits that brought them grief.

 

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A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.

 

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Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people.

 

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Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.

 

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The most common blood type in the world is Type O. The rarest, Type A-H, has been found in less than a dozen people since the type was discovered.

 

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The only bone in the human body not connected to another is the hyoid, a V-shaped bone located at the base of the tongue between the mandible and the voice box. Its function is to support the tongue and its muscles.