Total Trivia

[Gaia_Lorraine]

In limbo, meaning "a state of static in-between"

The origin of the term in limbo comes from the more ancient term in limber which used to describe military cannons ready for transport - incapable of firing and neither here nor there.
The expression in limbo came about in the 1950's with the introduction of the limbo dance and quickly overtook the word limber in the phrase.

 

[fire_breeze]

Someone on Earth reports seeing a UFO every three minutes. In the U.S., reported sightings are most likely to occur in July, at 9 p.m. or 3 a.m.

 

[fire_breeze]

Someone within 200 miles of your town claims to have had direct contact with a monster, ghost or other unexplainable being.

I wonder if my former flatmate's cooking counts as unexplainable...

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Neutrinos are capable of traveling through vast distances of matter unimpeded - about 600 trillion neutrinos pass through your body every second from the sun alone. It makes no difference if it is night time and the sun is on the other side of the Earth, they shoot through without interacting with it.

 

[smotherman]

A one kilogram packet of sugar will have about 5 million grains of sugar.

 

[smotherman]

A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine

 

[smotherman]

After chocolate and vanilla, orange is considered the world's most favorite flavour.

 

[fire_breeze]

After chocolate and vanilla, orange is considered the world's most favorite flavour.

I think that I'll just take flavour number one!

 

[smotherman]

Approximately 125 people die in the United States from an anaphylaxis to foods each year.

 

[smotherman]

I think that I'll just take flavour number one!

I knew you would!

 

[smotherman]

Although white wine can be produced from both red and white grapes, red wine can only be created from red grapes

 

[CCaprice]

After chocolate and vanilla, orange is considered the world's most favorite flavour.

I think that I'll just take flavour number one!

Me too!!!!

 

[fire_breeze]

I knew you would!

Is it that obvious?

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Me too!!!!

Waves innocently from the corner, "AND ME"

 

[Daizie]

In 1939 Irving Berlin composed a Christmas song but thought so little of it that he never showed it to anybody. He just tossed it into a trunk and didn't see fit to retrieve it until he needed it for a Bing Crosby-Fred Astaire movie, HOLIDAY INN 10 years later.
Bing Crosby was a staunch Catholic and at first refused to sing the song because he felt it tended to commercialize Christmas. He finally agreed, took eighteen minutes to make the recording, and then the "throw-away" song become an all-time hit.
Crosby's version has sold over 40 million copies. All together, this song has appeared in 750 versions, selling 6 million copies of sheet music and 90,000,000 recordings ,just in the United States and Canada.
You might not recognize the song from the movie HOLIDAY INN...or from the composer's name of Irving Berlin. But you're bound to know it because it's on everyone's list of Christmas favorites: WHITE CHRISTMAS.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

1 in 5 of all people on our planet live in China.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Song titles with female names...

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Boulevard De La Madelaine : The Moody Blues : 1966
Madeleine : Jacques Brel : 1962
Lady Madonna : Fats Domino : 1968
I Never See Maggie Alone : Art Mooney : 1949
Maggie Mae : The Beatles : 1970
Maggie May : Rod Stewart : 1972
Maggie's Farm : Bob Dylan : 1965
Maggie's Samba : Cliff Richard & The Shadows : 1958
Maggy M'Gill : The Doors : 1967
Mandy : Barry Manilow : 1975
Mandy : Westlife : 2003
Margarita : The Traveling Wilburys : 1988
Margie : Fats Domino : 1959
Maria : Johnny Mathis : 1960
Maria : Roger Williams : 1961
Maria [Jimmy Destri] : Blondie : 1999
Maria Elena : Los Indios Tabajaras : 1963
Ave Maria : Perry Como : 1949
Ave Maria : Jennifer Rush : 1985
I Did What I Did For Maria : Tony Christie : 1971
Oh My Maria : Eddie Fisher : 1956
Someone's Taken Maria Away : Adam Faith : 1965
Marianna : Johnny Mathis : 1962
Marianne : The Easy Riders : 1955
Marianne : Burl Ives : 1957
Marianne : Terry Gilkyson : 1957
Marianne : The Hilltoppers : 1957
Marianne : Stephen Stills : 1971
C'mon Marianne : The Four Seasons : 1967
So Long Marianne : Leonard Cohen : 1968
Marie : The Four Tunes : 1953
Marie : Bachelors : 1965
Marie : Justin Hayward : 1979
Marie My Love : The Cadets : 1957
Marie's The Name Of His Latest Flame : Elvis Presley : 1961
Marie's Wedding : Van Morrison & The Chieftanes : 1988
Darling Marie : The Mills Brothers & Louis Armstrong : 1940
Little Marie : Chuck Berry : 1964
Ma-Ma-Ma-Marie : The Gaylords : 1958
Marina : Rocco Granata : 1959
Marlena : The Four Seasons : 1963
Marlene : Demis Roussos : 1974
John And Marsha : Stan Freberg : 1951
Martha : Tom Waits : 1973
Martha My Dear : The Beatles : 1968
Martha's Madman : Manfred Mann's Earth Band : 1972
Martha's Madman : Manfred Mann's Earth Band : 1978
Mostly Martha : The Crew Cuts : 1955
Goodbye Mary Ann : Charlie Rich : 1962
Mary And Thomas : Bobby Freeman : 1959
Mary Ann : Black Lace : 1979
Mary Ann Regrets : Burl Ives : 1962
Mary Collinto : The Uglys : 1969
Mary Don't Cry : Stonewall Jackson : 1960
Mary Had A Little Lamb : The Wings : 1972
Mary Lee : The Rainbows : 1955
Mary Long : Deep Purple : 1973
Mary Lou : Ronnie Hawkins : 1959
Hello Mary Lou : Ricky Nelson : 1961
Sweet Mary Lou : Del Shannon : 1969
Mary Mary : Jimmy Reed : 1959
What Will Mary Say? : Johnny Mathis : 1963
Mary's Boy Child : Harry Belafonte : 1956
Mary's Little Lamb : James Darren : 1962
If Mary's There : Brian Hyland : 1963
Little Mary : Fats Domino : 1958
Proud Mary : Credence Clearwater Revival : 1969
Proud Mary : Solomon Burke : 1969
Proud Mary : Tom Jones : 1970
Proud Mary : Elvis Presley : 1970
Proud Mary : Ace Cannon : 1977
Sweet Mary : The Artwoods : 1964
Take A Message To Mary : The Everly Brothers : 1959
What's Behind The Eyes Of Mary : Cliff Richard & The Shadows : 1958
Matilda : Harry Belafonte : 1959
Waltzing Matilda : Jimmie Rodgers : 1960
Sweet Maxine : The Doobie Brothers : 1975
May Jane : Del Shannon : 1964
Maybellene : Chuck Berry : 1955
Maybelline : Gene Vincent & The Blue Caps : 1958
Michelle : Beatles : 1966
Michelle : Overlanders : 1966
My Michelle : Guns 'N' Roses : 1987
Mini Skirt Minnie : Wilson Pickett : 1969
Skimmy Minnie : Bill Haley & The Comets : 1958
Mitzi Dupree : Deep Purple : 1987
Molly : Bobby Goldsboro : 1962
Molly Anderson's Cookery Book : The Artwoods : 1966
Molly Malone : Neil Christian : 1969
Good Golly Miss Molly : Little Richard : 1958
Good Golly Miss Molly : Screaming Lord Sutch : 1961
Good Golly Miss Molly : Jerry Lee Lewis & Friends : 1978
Mona : Beach Boys : 1977
Mona Lisa : Nat 'King' Cole : 1950
Mona Lisa : Victor Young : 1950
Mona Lisa : Carl Mann : 1959
Mona Lisa : Conway Twitty : 1959
Mona Lisa : Johnny Burnette : 1962
Mona Lisa : Cris Montez & Raza : 1972
Mona Lisa : Julio Iglesias : 1990

 

[desideratum]

Leonardo da Vinci invented an alarm clock that woke the sleeper by rubbing their feet.

 

[CCaprice]

Leonardo da Vinci invented an alarm clock that woke the sleeper by rubbing their feet.

Are there any around? I want one!!!

 

[desideratum]

Me too

 

[CCaprice]

25% of bones in the human body are located in the feet, which are made up from 52 bones.

The average person walks about 10,000 steps a day. During a lifetime it is thought that a person has walked enough steps top have traveled around the planet more than 4 times, which is approximately 115,000 miles!

 

[CCaprice]

The Achilles tendon located in the heel of the foot was named after one of the most famous mythical characters from Ovid's 'Illiad'. In an attempt to immortalize her son, Thetis (Achilles' Mother) dipped Achilles into the River Styx, holding him by his ankle. Therefore his ankle became the only part of his body capable of sustaining a mortal wound. This is why he strongest tendon in the foot acquired the name of Achilles tendon.

 

[CCaprice]

It is estimated by scientists and historians that the first shoes were created during the ice age 5000,000 years ago and were made from animal skins.

 

[CCaprice]

The feet contain approximately 250,000 sweat glands that excrete as much as half a pint of moisture every day.

 

[CCaprice]

OH NO!!!!!

Women suffer from four times as many foot problems than men. This is believed to be a result of their choice of footwear, which usually consists of shoes with narrow toes and high heels.