Total Trivia

[Gaia_Lorraine]

In October 1995 the potato became the first vegetable to be grown in space. Astronauts now count super-nutritious potatoes as part of their staple diet as they orbit the earth.

 

[sethp]

Did you know that when you sneeze it comes out of your nose at around 100mph.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Frogs have been around unchanged for 190 million years, and there are around 4740 species around. The Triadobatrachus frog skeleton from the Lower Triassic era is 200-245 million years old.

Frogs lay 3000 to 4000 eggs at any one time.

Frogs shed their skin when they get too big for it ... then eat it.

Frogs don't need to drink - they absorb water through their skin.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Two species of burrowing Australian frogs of the Notaden genus that live one metre underground, only surface during torrential rain. At these times they are vulnerable to attack from insects.To protect themselves they secrete a glue that gums up the jaws of the biting insects and traps them to their skin, which they later eat.

The Poison Arrow Frog has enough poison to kill almost 2,200 people ...

Some frogs can inflate their throat to make it bigger than their head.

The Eastern wood frog freezes every winter. 67 percent of the frog's body freezes hard but as the frog slowly freezes over several hours, it pumps large amounts of glucose anti-freeze into his cells. Gradually it stops breathing, its heart stops and brain activity ceases. He can survive down to about -15 degrees C max.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The structure and the dynamics of the Milky Way

The Galaxy is composed of a central bulge, a disc, the spiral arms and the halo.

The bulge is 16,000 light years thick, it is situated in the centre of the disc which is 2,000 light years thick, and has a diameter 100,000 light years long.

The disc contains the spiral arms, like "stripes" of gas and stars that originate in the nucleus and wind all around it. The disc is surrounded by a halo, almost spherical, made of globular clusters, that spreads up to a diameter of 150,000 light years.

Three arms were discovered in our galaxy: the Orion one (where our Sun is), Perseus and Sagittarius. The absorption of light by the gas and dust prevents us from observing the arms on the opposite side of the galaxy.

Half the stars of our galaxy are isolated, and half gathered in open and globular clusters. The former can be found mainly in the arms of the disc, the latter in the halo.

 

[fire_breeze]

Hummingbirds are the smallest birds - so tiny that one of their enemies is an insect, the praying mantis.

 

[fire_breeze]

Lynyrd Skynyrd was the name of the gym teacher of the boys who went on to form that band. He once told them, "You boys ain't never gonna amount to nothin".


I bet he's eating his words .

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Our Solar system is situated at the periphery of the galaxy, at approximately 28,000 light years from its centre, around which it rotates with a speed of approximately 250 Km/s, and it is 30 light years high on the galactic plane.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The scales on the bellies of a snake act as anchors. If you put a snake on a smooth piece of glass it will not be able to move because there is nothing to grab onto.

 

[sethp]

It's been scientifically proven that Gaia_Lorraine has the most beautiful green eyes and wonderfully thick, red hair on all of Literotica.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

It's been scientifically proven that Gaia_Lorraine has the most beautiful green eyes and wonderfully thick, red hair on all of Literotica.

And you have the most chiseled face

 

[smotherman]

There are approximately 9,000 taste buds on the tongue

 

[smotherman]

There are approximately one hundred million people in the United States that have a chronic illness.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Abominable Snowman is an apelike animal cryptid said to inhabit the Himalaya region of Nepal and Tibet. The names Yeti and Meh-Teh are commonly used by the people indigenous to the region,[1] and are part of their history and mythology. Nepalese have various names for Yeti like "Bonmanche" which means "wild man" or "Kanchanjunga rachyyas" which means "Kanchanjunga's demon."

The evidence for its existence remains scanty.

In 1959, supposed Yeti feces were collected by Slick's expedition; fecal analysis found a parasite which could not be classified. Bernard Heuvelmans wrote, "Since each animal has its own parasites, this indicated that the host animal is equally an unknown animal."


In 1959, actor James Stewart, while visiting India, reportedly smuggled remains of a supposed Yeti, the so-called Pangboche Hand, by concealing it in his luggage when he flew from India to London.

In 1970, British mountaineer Don Whillans claims to have witnessed a creature when scaling Annapurna. While scouting for a campsite, Whillans heard some odd cries which his Sherpa guide attributed to a Yeti's call. That very night, Whillans saw a dark shape moving near his camp. The next day, he observed a few human-like footprints in the snow, and that evening, viewed with binoculars a bipedal, apelike creature for 20 minutes as it apparently searched for food not far from his camp.

In 1984, famed mountaineer David P. Sheppard of Hoboken, NJ, was near the southern Col of Everest and claims to have been followed by a large, furry man over the course of several days. His sherpas, however, say they saw no such thing. He claims to have taken a photograph, but a later study of it proved inconclusive.

In early December 2007, American television presenter Josh Gates and his team reported finding a series of footprints in the Everest region of Nepal resembling descriptions of Yeti. Each of the footprints were measured as 33 cm in length - longer than a ruler - with five toes that measured a total of 25 cm across. Casts were made of the prints for further research.

 

[Stryderthorongil]

Can't say I would want a hand in my luggage. Hi Lorraine, hope all is well

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Can't say I would want a hand in my luggage. Hi Lorraine, hope all is well

It gives an added meaning to the phrase "Can I give you a hand with your luggage?"

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The Loch Ness Monster - affectionately known as Nessie - is probably the most famous cryptid in the world. As such it has spawned a massive tourist industry.
In 1975 Nessie received an shiny new, official sounding scientific name: Nessiteras rhombopteryx.

Sightings of the Loch Ness monster have been reported for centuries. The earliest on record is from 565 AD when St Columba saved the life of a local who was being attacked by a monster in the river Ness (though some spoilsports insist it was actually a wild boar).

The modern Nessie era began in 1933 when a local paper - the Inverness Courier - reported a sighting by a local a couple, the Spicers. Whilst driving along the loch side between Dores and Inverfarigaig they spotted a large creature crossing the road in front of them. The creature disappeared into the bushes in the direction of the Loch.

This report was taken up by the national press in London and the Nessie ball began to roll.

The next year, 1934, the most famous photograph of Nessie was allegedly taken by surgeon R. K. Wilson. This, the "surgeon's photo" has been the focus of intense debate since it was first taken. Over the years several people have "confessed" to being involved in faking the surgeon's photo.

In 2003 a BBC expedition surveyed the entire Loch using sonar. They concluded that no monster exists.

It should be remembered that it is logically impossible to prove that something does not exist - only that it has not been found.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Loch Ness is the largest fresh water body in Britain. It is over twenty two miles in length and over a mile and a half at its widest. Loch Ness is also deep and goes down almost 800 feet. It has been estimated that the loch is large enough to hold the entire population of the world ten times over.

That's more than enough space for a whole family of monsters!

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Despite all of the research, Loch Ness monster hunters are still unable to agree on the nature of the beast.

The first point to make is that there is no single "Loch Ness monster" as such. It is infeasible that any creature, cryptid or otherwise, could have survived long enough to explain all the sightings over the centuries. There must be a family or small herd of creatures. That herd must be large enough to survive yet small enough to have escaped discovery, a balancing acts many skeptics consider impossible.

Assuming that Nessie exists then the most common explanation is that the creature is a dinosaur that managed to survive extinction. The plesiosaur is the usual candidate.

Another option that seems to have support locally is that the creature is not a dinosaur but some kind of giant eel.

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[Gaia_Lorraine]

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

 

[BoomerP]

Playing games makes you smarter, Apparently

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Playing games makes you smarter, Apparently

Fancy a game of tiddlywinks? Let's get smart

 

[TallMan60]

Fancy a game of tiddlywinks? Let's get smart

I prefer tic tac toe, and I warn you, I play to win.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The object of Tic Tac Toe is to get three in a row. You play on a three by three game board. The first player is known as X and the second is O. Players alternate placing Xs and Os on the game board until either oppent has three in a row or all nine squares are filled. X always goes first, and in the event that no one has three in a row, the stalemate is called a cat game.