Total Trivia

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In the spring of 1975, a baby in Detroit fell 14 stories and landed on Joseph Figlock, who was walking below. A few years later it happened again. Figlock and both babies survived.

 

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During the 16th century, newly married couples in France had to stand naked outdoors while the groom kissed the bride's left foot and big toe as part of traditional customs.

 

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During the 1600's, boys and girls in England wore dresses until they were about seven years old.

 

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The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

 

[fire_breeze]

When Albert Einstein died, his final words died with him. The nurse at his side didn't understand German.

 

[smotherman]

The largest diamond that was ever found was 3106 carats.

 

[smotherman]

A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

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I truly believed that the thread was dead, until now

 

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Pilgrims did not eat potatoes for Thanksgiving as they thought they were poisonous.

 

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The "Star Spangled Banner" did not become a national anthem until 1931. It was designated by an Act of Congress.

 

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The average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.

 

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Peter the Great executed his wife's lover, and forced her to keep her lover's head in a jar of alcohol in her bedroom.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

There are approximately 2,700 different kinds of earthworms.

In one acre of land, there can be more than a million earthworms.

The largest earthworm ever found was in South Africa and measured 22 feet from its nose to the tip of its tail.

The Australian Gippsland Earthworm grows to 12 feet long and can weigh 1-1/2 pounds.

 

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In the Victoria era, red tulips were a declaration of love.

 

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The Roman emperor Domitian took great pleasure in being secluded in his room for hours and catching flies and stabbing them with pens.

 

[smotherman]

Bless you Smotherman ad Firebreeze
I truly believed that the thread was dead, until now

No, won't let this thread die!

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The Earth's surface rotates about its axis at 1,532 feet per second -- slightly over 1,000 miles per hour -- at the equator, and the planet zips around the sun at more than 18 miles per second.

 

[smotherman]

An alligator has about 80 teeth in its mouth at one time. An alligator can go through 3,000 teeth in a lifetime.

 

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Termites are roasted and eaten like popcorn in South Africa.

 

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The difference between horns and antlers is that horns never stop growing and antlers shed and grow every year.

 

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From all the states, Montana has the most different species of animals

 

[fire_breeze]

Since Herodotus and Callimachus of Cyrene at the Library of Alexandria named the original Seven Wonders of the World in 200 B.C.E, the Western world has relegated them to an awed mental pedestal and then promptly forgot what was on the list.

In those centuries, six vanished. Still with us are the Pyramids at Giza

Earthquakes leveled the Lighthouse of Alexandria. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon may never have existed. Crusading Maltese knights purloined blocks from the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus to build a fortress.

Other Wonders met more elaborate fates. The Colossus of Rhodes was felled by earthquake, left prone by oracle's decree and hauled off on mules by invading Arab merchants. A disaffected Ephesian burned the Temple of Artemis, after which it was razed by Goths.

Caligula tried to appropriate The Statue of Zeus, and broke it. A Roman successor closed its temple, which later suffered earthquakes, landslides and fire.

Oh, and the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World are:

Great Pyramid of Giza
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Statue of Zeus at Olympia
Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus
Colossus of Rhodes
Lighthouse of Alexandria

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

One million Earths could fit into the size of the sun.
The sun is about half way through its 10 billion year lifespan, at the end of which it will have burned all its hydrogen.

 

[groovenut31]

You could stack 3 Oriole Park's on top of each other and they would still fit inside Toronto's Skydome.

 

[smotherman]

The reason why tattoos do not vanish even though we shed our skin is because the dye is injected deeper into the dermis part of the skin. It is only the epidermis that we shed.