Total Trivia

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Welsh village Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch only got its record-breaking long name as a result of a 19th century effort to promote tourism. Its original name was the much more manageable Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll.

 

[whalee]

Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg...a lake in Massachusetts that means "you fish on your side I fish on my side and no one fishes in the middle." And old Indian name.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg...a lake in Massachusetts that means "you fish on your side I fish on my side and no one fishes in the middle." And old Indian name.

WOW! Thank you

 

[whalee]

WOW! Thank you

Mon plaisir....

 

[whalee]

My dad used to pride himself in spelling it both ways. I can just say it.

 

[smotherman]

There are more fatal car accidents in July than any other month.

 

[smotherman]

More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

 

[smotherman]

One in three motorists picks their nose while driving.

 

[smotherman]

Avocados have more protein than any other fruit.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

A German woman was involved in three car accidents in less than an hour - including a crash in the ambulance taking her to hospital.

The 69-year-old woman from Berlin first crashed into three cars while trying to pull out of a supermarket car park on the Baltic resort island of Usedom.

Then, she accidently stepped on the accelerator and sped across a lawn before crashing into a nearby house, police said. She was taken to hospital in an ambulance but that vehicle was then hit by a truck.

 

[whalee]

Pancreaticoduodenostomy is the longest word with all six vowels in order.

Hey, GL

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

A man in Australia had to undergo surgery using fire brigade equipment to remove sixteen stainless steel washers that had somehow become lodged on his penis.

Fire Rescue officers had raced to help the man at about 3am, after the washers became stuck on his penis in mysterious circumstances.

After spending over an hour attempting to free his genitalia from the washers, the fire officers transported the man to hospital in Hornsby, a suburb to the north-west of Sydney.

 

[whalee]

Earthworms have five hearts

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The custom of serving a slice of lemon with fish dates back to the Middle Ages. It was believed that if a person accidentally swallowed a fish bone, the lemon juice would dissolve it.

 

[fire_breeze]

Kansas- A man was charged with holding up a shoe store. He stole about 70$ in shoes. At his trial the man showed up wearing the boots he stole, with the tags still on. He was found guilty and the shoes were returned to the store.

 

[fire_breeze]

Wandsworth, England- Karl Watkin was sentenced to eighteen months in prison after trying to have sex with a sidewalk. Three years later he was sentenced to six years for stimulating sexual intercourse with garbage bags. Later that year he commited suicide in his cell.

 

[fire_breeze]

Appleton, Wisconsin- Darrell Voeks stole $100,000 worth of pigs to help pay for breast implants for his favorite stripper at a club.


He got ten years in prison.

 

[NymphGoddess]

camel urine is the consistency of maple syrup (yes, really)

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Researchers have determined that 1 acre of potatoes can yield 1,200 gallons of ethyl alcohol in a year.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Spiders never spin webs in structures made of chestnut wood. That is why so many European chateaux were built with chestnut beams.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

According to the official rules of baseball, no umpire may be replaced during a game unless he is injured or becomes ill.

 

[NymphGoddess]

there was only one president elected twice, but NOT in succession...Grover Cleveland

 

[fire_breeze]

Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969.

 

[fire_breeze]

The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye.

 

[fire_breeze]

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.