Total Trivia

[smotherman]

The reason why your nose gets runny when you are crying is because the tears from the eyes drain into the nose.

 

[smotherman]

There are 50% more males that are left handed compared to females.

 

[smotherman]

When you sneeze, all your bodily functions momentarily stop, including your heart.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

When you sneeze, all your bodily functions momentarily stop, including your heart.

Now I can understand why a sneezing fit can be tiresome.
Thanks

 

[smotherman]

Women carry more sweat glands than men but men's sweat glands are more active.

 

[smotherman]

Women on average live seven years longer than men do.

 

[smotherman]

Now I can understand why a sneezing fit can be tiresome.
Thanks

Very tiresome! I always feel like taking a nap after a sneezing fit lol....

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Song titles with female names...

-------- R ---------

Ramona : Louis Armstrong : 1952
Ramona : The Blue Diamonds : 1960
Ramona : Houston Wells : 1964
Ramona : Bachelors : 1964
Help Me Rhonda : The Beach Boys : 1965
Rikki Don't Lose That Number : Steely Dan : 1974
Rita Mae : Eric Clapton : 1981
Lovely Rita : The Beatles : 1967
Ronnie : The Four Seasons : 1964
Rosalie : Thin Lizzy : 1975
Rosalie - Cowgirl's Song : Thin Lizzy : 1978
Mean Little Woman Rosalie : Tommy Roe : 1972
Rosalyn : The Pretty Things : 1964
Rosanna : Toto : 1982
Rosanna's Going Wild : Johnny Cash : 1968
Rose : Mott The Hoople : 1973
Rose Mary : Fats Domino : 1953
Rose Rose I Love You : Frankie Laine : 1951
Ramblin' Rose : Nat 'King' Cole : 1962
Second Hand Rose : Barbra Streisand : 1966
Why Didn't Rosemary? : Deep Purple : 1969
Rosie : Jackson Browne : 1977
Rosie Lee : The Mello-Tones : 1957
Rosie : Tom Waits : 1973
Bustin' Out For Rosie : Tommy Bolin : 1976
Roxanne : Police : 1979
Ruby (Parish, Mitchell, Roemheld, Heinz) : Victor Young : 1953
Ruby (Parish, Mitchell, Roemheld, Heinz) : Les Baxter : 1953
Ruby (Parish, Mitchell, Roemheld, Heinz) : Richard Hayman : 1953
Ruby (Ray Charles) : Ray Charles : 1960
Ruby (Kaiser Chiefs) : Kaiser Chiefs : 2007
Ruby Ann : Marty Robbins : 1962
Ruby Baby : Dion : 1963
Ruby Baby : The Drifters : 1956
Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town : Kenny Rogers : 1969
Ruby Tuesday : The Rolling Stones : 1967
Ruby Tuesday : Classic Rock : 1981
Rudy's Rock [?] : Bill Haley & The Comets : 1956
A Rose And Baby Ruth : George Hamilton IV : 1956

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Unlike bees, wasps are able to sting repeatedly. The venom of the wasp contains a pheromone which acts as an alarm causing other wasps to become more aggressive when a wasp has stung something or has been killed. So it is a bad idea to swat a wasp near its nest site or to attempt to remove the nest yourself.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Young queens of the Common wasp mate with drones in the vicinity of the nest. At the end of autumn the nest dies and the only wasps left alive are the young mated queens. They fly away and find a safe place to hibernate for the winter. It is not uncommon to discover a hibernating queen in the folds of curtains in houses.

Within each of the hibernating queen wasps is a tightly packed ball of dormant sperm stored from mating the previous summer. She is able to release newly activated sperm each time she lays an egg without the need for repeated matings. Therefore, each dormant queen literally has the potential to form a new colony.

In late spring the queen will emerge from hibernation and begin searching for a suitable nest site. When she has found one she starts building a small paper nest into which she begins to lay eggs. The eggs hatch out into sterile females , these workers then take over the job of nest building and larvae feeding and the queen continues to lay eggs.

Towards the end of the summer the queen lays some more eggs which produce male wasps, called drones, and fertile females which will be the queens of next year's nests. These swarm out of the colony and mate. The males die shortly afterwards.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Offshoot from the research into a story I'm writing...

The tiny scale at which the microscopic structure of space and time becomes observable is the Planck scale. To get an idea of how small that is, imagine the ratio between the size of the earth and the size of a nucleus. The nucleus is a 100 trillion trillion times smaller than the earth. Now go down another 100 trillion trillion times: this is the Planck scale, where our understanding of space and time breaks down.

Yet in spite of the amazingly tiny scale, researchers can still do testable science.

 

[smotherman]

Kissing can aid in reducing tooth decay. This is because the extra saliva helps in keeping the mouth clean.

 

[smotherman]

Left-handed people are better at sports that require good spatial judgment and fast reaction, compared to right-handed individuals.

 

[smotherman]

Lack of sleep can affect your immune system and reduce your ability to fight infections.

 

[smotherman]

Olive oil can help in lowering cholesterol levels and decreasing the risk of heart complications

 

[smotherman]

On average a person passes gas 14 times a day.

 

[smotherman]

On average, falling asleep while driving results in 550 accidents per day in the United States.

 

[sunset_meadow]

Did you know there are over 15,000 varieties of rice?

 

[Daizie]

In 1876 thieves had failed in an attempt to steal the corpse of Abraham Lincoln and hold it for ransom.

On September 26, 1901, on orders from Lincoln's son Robert, Lincoln's body was re-interned encased in concrete. The coffin was open in order to dispel rumors of The President not being buried there. All 23 of the people who viewed the remains of Mr. Lincoln have long since passed away. The last one was Fleetwood Lindley who died on February 1, 1963.

 

[fire_breeze]

The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful plough man strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."

 

[fire_breeze]

Caligynephobia is a fear of beautiful women.

 

[fire_breeze]

Phobophobia is a fear of fearing.

 

[smotherman]

People whose mouth has a narrow roof are more likely to snore. This is because they have less oxygen going through their nose.

 

[smotherman]

Sex acts like a natural antihistamine, in can clear up a stuffy nose.

 

[smotherman]

The average amount of time spent kissing for a person in a lifetime is 20,160 minutes.