Total Trivia

[fire_breeze]

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.

Hmmm... there's something incredibly insightful about that fact.

Thank you

 

[smotherman]

Hmmm... there's something incredibly insightful about that fact.

Thank you

Very welcome!

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Barack Obama may be the 44th president of the USA, but he's only the 43rd man to hold the job. That's because Grover Cleveland gets counted twice, having won non-consecutive elections.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

High-heeled shoes were originally invented in the early 1500s for soldiers, to stop their feet slipping out of the stirrups while they were on horseback. They quickly became fashionable, for both men and women, in the French court.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Casu marzu is a Sardinian cheese (officially banned, although still available) that contains live maggots, which give it its unique falvour. When eating the cheese, it is advisable to shield your eyes with your hand, as the maggots can jump into your eyes.

 

[fire_breeze]

Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth.

The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.

 

[fire_breeze]

It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

 

[fire_breeze]

A group of unicorns is called a blessing.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

14 ships and their crews were trapped when the Suez Canal was closed due to the 1967 Six-Day War. They remained stuck there for eight years – during which time they set up their own postal system (complete with stamps), held a mock Olympic games, and formed a yachting club. They were known as the 'Yellow Fleet', because of the amount of sand that collected on their decks.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The dying breath of Thomas Edison, inventor of the lightbulb and the phonograph, is held at the Henry Ford Museum in Michigan. This is because Ford, a great admirer of Edison, asked the inventor's son to capture his father's last breath in a test tube. It's not entirely clear why.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

It's possible for a male flour beetle to impregnate a female he's never even met. That's because other males scrape out their rivals' semen from the female's reproductive tract – but this means they sometimes pass it on to other females, impregnating them with another male's sperm.

(Reference: Fertilization by proxy: rival sperm removal and translocation in a beetle)

 

[smotherman]

More babies are born in September than in any other month.

 

[smotherman]

53% of Americans think they are paid the right amount.

 

[smotherman]

57% of women would rather go on a shopping spree than have sex.

 

[smotherman]

About 8,000 people are injured by musical instruments each year.

 

[fire_breeze]

More babies are born in September than in any other month.

Count 9 months before September... might give a clue to why...

 

[fire_breeze]

Orgasms boost infection-fighting cells up to 20%. Psychologists at Wilkes University in Pennsylvania found that students who had regular sexual activity had a third higher levels of immunoglobulin A, an antibody which boosts the immune system and can help fight colds and flu.

 

[fire_breeze]

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

 

[fire_breeze]

The condom is named after Dr. Charles Condom.

 

[fire_breeze]

Genophobia is the fear of sex.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

57% of women would rather go on a shopping spree than have sex.

But.... that is sex..... isn't it?

 

[smotherman]

But.... that is sex..... isn't it?

Do you get an orgasm from shopping?

 

[smotherman]

Count 9 months before September... might give a clue to why...

I ( kind of) figured out why.

 

[smotherman]

32% of singles polled think they will meet their future mate online.

 

[smotherman]

The average male laughs 69 times a day where the average woman laughs 55 times a day.