Total Trivia

[mulehead61]

The "baby carrots" sold in supermarkets, are often not from a smaller cultivar of carrot, but are simply full-sized carrots that have been sliced and peeled to make carrot sticks of a uniform shape and size.

 

[mulehead61]

One inch of rain over one square mile is 17,378,700 gallons of water.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

One inch of rain over one square mile is 17,378,700 gallons of water.

How poignant your post was, I've just watched the news where it was reported that 12 inches fell in 24 hours. My brother lives in Cumbria and I must phone him!

 

[mulehead61]

How poignant your post was, I've just watched the news where it was reported that 12 inches fell in 24 hours. My brother lives in Cumbria and I must phone him!

We have relatives in England, living to the north and northeast of London. We visited for 10 days in 2007 and it was sunny and in the 70's every day. They were amazed as this was about the only time that year it wasn't raining....

 

[fire_breeze]

Probably because they want you to buy other sorts of tablets etc and make a bigger fortune.

Greedy capitalistic pigs!

We'll go into business and take over the college market

 

[fire_breeze]

A man’s penis not only shrinks during cold weather but also from nonsexual excitement like when his favorite football team scores a touchdown, etc.

Who knew?

 

[fire_breeze]

Women who went to college are more likely to enjoy both the giving and receiving of oral sex than high school dropouts.

 

[fire_breeze]

Strange sex laws:

In Fairbanks, Alaska it’s illegal for moose to have sex on the city sidewalks.

In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, it’s against the law to have sex with a truck driver in a toll booth.

In Florida having sexual relations with a porcupine is illegal.

Up until 1884, a Victorian-era woman could be sent to prison for denying a husband sex.

During the Middle Ages in some places, if you were guilty of bestiality you’d be burned at the stake, along with the other party to your crime.

In Medieval France, unfaithful wives were made to chase a chicken through town while naked.

 

[fire_breeze]

The word "pornography" comes from the Greek meaning the "writings of prostitutes."

In ancient Greece and Rome, dildos were made out of animal horns, gold, silver, ivory and glass.

The Romans would crush a first time rapist’s gonads between two stones.

When Viagra became available, operators of Nevada brothels reported that business "shot up" about 20 percent.

 

[fire_breeze]

The penguin only has one single orgasm in a year.

That poor penguin!

Both humans and porpoises have one social sex practice in common--group sex.

 

[smotherman]

Any month that starts on a Sunday will have a Friday the 13th in it.

 

[smotherman]

A wind with a speed of 74 miles or more is designated a hurricane.

 

[smotherman]

Nearly 50% of all bank robberies take place on Friday.

 

[fire_breeze]

Nearly 50% of all bank robberies take place on Friday.

That's what I forgot to do this Friday

 

[fire_breeze]

Flatbush National Bank of Brooklyn, New York was the first bank to issue a credit card in 1946.

The largest cash robbery of a bank was the Loomis Fargo bank robbery in 1997, in which $17.3 million was stolen from a regional office vault in Charlotte, NC. Again, another inside job and the thieves were caught (so was 95% of the cash).

 

[smotherman]

Caffeine: there are 100 to 150 milligrams of caffeine in an eight-ounce cup of brewed coffee, 10 milligrams in a six-ounce cup of cocoa, 5 to 10 milligrams in one ounce of bittersweet chocolate, and 5 milligrams in one ounce of milk chocolate.

 

[smotherman]

That's what I forgot to do this Friday

I am never going to the bank on a Friday again....Still love the eye roll!



Chocolate contains phenylethylamine (PEA), a natural substance that is reputed to stimulate the same reaction in the body as falling in love.

 

[smotherman]

During the Alaskan Klondike gold rush, (1897-1898) potatoes were practically worth their weight in gold. Potatoes were so valued for their vitamin C content that miners traded gold for potatoes.

 

[smotherman]

Large doses of coffee can be lethal. Ten grams, or 100 cups over 4 hours, can kill the average human.

 

[smotherman]

Per capita, the Irish eat more chocolate than Americans, Swedes, Danes, French, and Italians.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The English-language Wikipedia has more than 3 million articles, far outstripping any other language. The next largest is the German version.

The Wikimedia Foundation has only 25 staff and is a non-profit organisation.

Wikipedia operates in a variety of languages and has widely differing reading patterns for each, but there are common trends. .. Sex is among the most popular articles in every language except French and Spanish. Someone said 'That's because the French and Spanish are actually having sex'.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The sperm count of an average American male compared to thirty years ago is down thirty percent

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

In the USA 70% of houses are painted white.