Total Trivia

[smotherman]

32% of women and 8% of men say they are better at doing laundry than their spouse.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Do you get an orgasm from shopping?

You'd be surprised where a woman can have an orgasm

 

[fire_breeze]

Would you give up your mobile phone for a million pounds (1,483,455.74 USD, 1,100,138.66 Euros, 1,824,699.56 CAD or 2,075,541.09 AUD)? According to a survey by Carphone Warehouse and the London School of Economics, one in three of us would not! Mobile phones are fast becoming indispensable and Britons send a billion text messages every week.
The survey also found that:
. 76% of people believe it is a social requirement to have a mobile phone.
. 85% feel that having a mobile phone is vital to their quality of life
. Most young adults consider mobile phones a critical social lifeline for feeling part of a friendship group.
. Most 16-24 year olds would rather give up alcohol, chocolate, sex, tea or coffee than live without their mobile phone for a month.

I don't think I can give up coffee or chocolate for ANYTHING!

 

[fire_breeze]

The pollsters contend their studies indicate that the man who kisses his wife/SO good-bye when he leaves for work every morning averages a higher income than does the fellow who doesn't do it. Husbands who exercise the rituals of affection tend to be more painstaking, more stable, more methodical, thus, higher earners.

So men, kiss your SOs every morning!

 

[fire_breeze]

An ordinance in Carmel, California, makes it unlawful for a lady to take a bath in a business office.

 

[fire_breeze]

According the The Sentinel (2007. April 3) UK's favourite word is love, with other popular ones including smile, happy and chocolate. A poll sponsored by BT’s Openreach division showed that the word love was five times more popular with women than men, who put antidisestablishmentarianism in top place. Other words in the top 10 included serendipity, family and holiday.

 

[fire_breeze]

Some drivers are more likely to think about work, their families or even sex, than concentrating on the road ahead it has been disclosed. One in five drivers admits to concentrating on driving less than 75% of the time, with some paying full attention for only 10% of the time.

 

[fire_breeze]

It's official... the curvy lady is back in fashion. Not only are 'fifties clothes the new look but so are 'fifties curves. A survey by Mattessons - the company that loves mmmeat - has revealed that 80% of UK women would prefer a curvy shape to a thinner waif-like figure.

 

[smotherman]

Lightning strikes the Empire State Building in New York about 25 times each year.

 

[smotherman]

The most dangerous animals in the United States are deer. They are responsible for vehicular collisions which accounted for 204 U.S. deaths each year.

 

[smotherman]

The mosquito is the most dangerous animal on the planet. Female mosquitoes carry malaria, which kills over one million people each year.

 

[smotherman]

According to a recent study, birds prefer their droppings to be on white cars.

My car is not white so I'm safe.

 

[Donkeepuncher]

It's official... the curvy lady is back in fashion. Not only are 'fifties clothes the new look but so are 'fifties curves. A survey by Mattessons - the company that loves mmmeat - has revealed that 80% of UK women would prefer a curvy shape to a thinner waif-like figure.

Thank god for this!

 

[smotherman]

You'd be surprised where a woman can have an orgasm

For women, orgasm is both a physical and mental, or emotional connection, so I'm not surprised.



On average, a human being will have sex more than 3,000 times and spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime.

 

[smotherman]

Orange juice helps the body absorb iron easily when consumed with a meal.

 

[smotherman]

One plain milk chocolate candy bar has more protein than a banana.

 

[smotherman]

Pablo Picasso has sold more works of art individually costing over one million dollars than any other artist. His 211 is well ahead of the 168 for Pierre Auguste Renoir.

 

[RUlookingup]

In the first Yankee game at the new Stadium, an exhibition vs. the Cubs, home runs were hit by Yankees off the right and left foul poles.

 

[RUlookingup]

There are 2,027 bridges and tunnels overall in the New York City metro area.

 

[RUlookingup]

Some New Yorkers refer to the "Bridge and Tunnel" crowd. Usually in a disparaging way.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Mary Ward was a pioneering Irish scientist who is unfortunately remembered as the first person to ever die in a motor vehicle accident. She fell under the wheels of an experimental steam carriage in 1869.

 

[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]

The colour of all the visible light in the universe, averaged out, is a sort of beige colour, according to work by astronomers Karl Glazebrook and Ivan Baldry. The colour has been given the name 'Cosmic Latte'.

 

[crash197177]

60% of people lie when answering polls

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

60% of people lie when answering polls

I can well believe that

The unofficial anthem of Cornwall, The Song Of The Western Men (otherwsie known as 'Trelawny'), was composed by Robert Stephen Hawker, an eccentric, opium-smoking priest in 1824 – but he passed it off as a long-lost traditional poem, fooling Sir Walter Scott and Charles Dickens in the process.