Total Trivia

[Daizie]

Only 14% of Americans say they've skinny dipped with the opposite sex

I'm in the 14%

So am I.

 

[smotherman]

A kiss stimulates 29 muscles and chemicals causing relaxation. Women seem to like it light and frequent, men like it more strenuous.

 

[smotherman]

So am I.

More in common I see!

 

[fire_breeze]

The longest non-medical word in the English language is FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION, which means "the act of estimating as worthless".

 

[fire_breeze]

The word "trivia" comes from the Latin "trivium" which is the place where three roads meet, a public square. People would gather and talk about all sorts of matters, most of which were trivial

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

I hope it's not too late. The earth is definitely changing!

Scientific fact - the Earth has been undergoing a warming phase well before mankind began to make his mark on the planet. We are still in an interglacial period but the retreat of the ice sheets is proof enough that global warming was not initiated by him.
What is happening, however, is that we are now exacerbating the effect and not allowing vulnerable species to adapt.
Sadly we are being witness to a mass extinction event (MSE) where a vast proportion of the planet's organisms are being wiped out.
BUT, we must not be forced to believe by the do-gooders that we are entirely to blame, it was happening anyway.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

On average, a distinct species of plant or animal becomes extinct every 20 minutes. The rate of current loss is highly unusual -- clearly qualifying the present period as one of the six great periods of mass extinction in the history of Earth.
ScienceDaily (Jan. 10, 2002)

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Countries with the largest number of threatened species by taxonomic group
Indonesia : Mammals
Brazil : Birds
Mexico : Reptiles
Columbia : Amphibians
United States : Fishes, Molluscs & Other Invertebrates
Ecuador : Plants

 

[fire_breeze]

The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London

 

[fire_breeze]

Scientific fact - the Earth has been undergoing a warming phase well before mankind began to make his mark on the planet. We are still in an interglacial period but the retreat of the ice sheets is proof enough that global warming was not initiated by him.
What is happening, however, is that we are now exacerbating the effect and not allowing vulnerable species to adapt.
Sadly we are being witness to a mass extinction event (MSE) where a vast proportion of the planet's organisms are being wiped out.
BUT, we must not be forced to believe by the do-gooders that we are entirely to blame, it was happening anyway.

This has always disturbed me... I know that while we as humans are not entirely to blame, we are still speeding up the process... in the end, we are only killing ourselves.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

This has always disturbed me... I know that while we as humans are not entirely to blame, we are still speeding up the process... in the end, we are only killing ourselves.

Indeed, we are leaving our legacy on the planet

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The five worst mass extinctions in Earths history and their possible causes...

Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction, about 65 million years ago, probably caused or aggravated by impact of several-mile-wide asteroid that created the Chicxulub crater now hidden on the Yucatan Peninsula and beneath the Gulf of Mexico. The extinction killed 16 percent of marine families, 47 percent of marine genera (the classification above species) and 18 percent of land vertebrate families, including the dinosaurs.

End Triassic extinction, roughly 199 million to 214 million years ago, most likely caused by massive floods of lava erupting from the central Atlantic magmatic province -- an event that triggered the opening of the Atlantic Ocean. The death toll: 22 percent of marine families, 52 percent of marine genera.

Permian-Triassic extinction, about 251 million years ago. Many scientists suspect a comet or asteroid impact, although direct evidence has not been found. The Permian-Triassic catastrophe was Earths worst mass extinction, killing 95 percent of all species, 53 percent of marine families, 84 percent of marine genera and an estimated 70 percent of land species such as plants, insects and vertebrate animals.

Late Devonian extinction, about 364 million years ago, cause unknown. It killed 22 percent of marine families and 57 percent of marine genera.

Ordovician-Silurian extinction, about 439 million years ago, caused by a drop in sea levels as glaciers formed, then by rising sea levels as glaciers melted. The toll: 25 percent of marine families and 60 percent of marine genera.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
He should have used a condom!

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

OMG!
This piece of trivia perfectly sums up the above topic about mankind's effect on the Earth...

The visitors at Yellowstone Park create 270 million gallons of sewage waste per year, and use up to 18 rolls of toilet paper, per toilet, per day!

That says it all

 

[mrtnmoon]

the golden arches first appeared on a mcdonald's building in phoenix, arizona in 1954.

 

[desideratum]

OMG!
This piece of trivia perfectly sums up the above topic about mankind's effect on the Earth...

The visitors at Yellowstone Park create 270 million gallons of sewage waste per year, and use up to 18 rolls of toilet paper, per toilet, per day!

That says it all

Wow!

I found this; you will produce 92,884 pounds of rubbish in your lifetime; that's per person!

 

[packersfan]

Wow!

I found this; you will produce 92,884 pounds of rubbish in your lifetime; that's per person!

Good to hear I'm ahead of the curve!

Really, since our area started collecting recyclables, I have noticed a large drop in the amount of trash put out by our household.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Good to hear I'm ahead of the curve!

Really, since our area started collecting recyclables, I have noticed a large drop in the amount of trash put out by our household.

I agree, now that I've got rid of the backlog!

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

We have all heard our recorded voice and thought "Hey that's not me! I don't sound like that!"
Yet what we are hearing is the way others hear us, direct from our vibrating larynx, through the air to their ears.
However, we are bound within our bodies and receive the sound waves both as vibrations in the air and via the fluids and bones of our skull. This radically alters the resonance and tone of our voice and becomes deeper.
Young children are unable to recognise their own recorded voice when played back to them.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The letters 'ph' and 'f' sound the same because it originates from the Greek letter 'phi' Φ.
To create a Φ on your keyboard press and hold the ALT key, type the number '1000' and release the ALT key.

 

[CCaprice]

OMG!
This piece of trivia perfectly sums up the above topic about mankind's effect on the Earth...

The visitors at Yellowstone Park create 270 million gallons of sewage waste per year, and use up to 18 rolls of toilet paper, per toilet, per day!

That says it all

So, so sad!

 

[CCaprice]

Kool-Aid

Edwin Perkins was always fascinated by chemistry and enjoyed inventing things. When his family moved to southwest Nebraska at the turn of the century, young Perkins experimented with home-made concoctions in his mother’s kitchen and created the Kool-Aid story...

The forerunner to KOOL-AID was Fruit Smack, which was sold via mail order in the 1920s. Perkins sold each Kool-Aid packet for a dime, wholesale by mail at first, to grocery, candy and other stores. It came in strawberry, cherry, lemon-lime, grape, orange and raspberry.

Edwin Perkins re-named the drink Kool-Ade and then Kool-Aid in 1927. In 1929, Kool-Aid was distributed nation-wide to grocery stores by food brokers. Perkins and his family handled all the distribution by themselves.

 

[Daizie]

Colorful Facts About Crayola Crayons

The first box of Crayola crayons was sold in 1903 for a nickel and included the same colors available in the eight-count box today: red, blue, yellow, green, violet, orange, black and brown.

Most Crayola crayon color names are taken from the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Bureau of Standards book called “Color: Universal Language and Dictionary of Names.” Many crayon names are also borrowed from traditional artists’ paints.

Crayola crayon colour names rarely change. However, there are exceptions. In 1958, Prussian blue was changed to midnight blue in response to teacher recommendations that children could no longer relate to Prussian history. In 1962, the colour flesh was changed to peach recognizing that not everyone’s flesh is the same shade.

The average child in the United States will wear down 730 crayons by his 10th birthday (or 11.4 boxes of 64s). Kids, ages 2-8, spend an average of 28 minutes each day colouring. Combined, children in the US spend 6.3 billion hours colouring annually, almost 10,000 human lifetimes!

 

[desideratum]

Movies....
All the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are set to 4:20

Animators drew nearly 6.5million black spots for the film 101 Dalmations

The blood in the shower scene of Alfred Hitchcock's movie, Psycho, was actually chocolate syrup.

 

[smotherman]

Human tonsils can bounce higher than a rubber ball of similar weight and size, but only for the first 30 minutes after they've been removed.