Total Trivia

[TallMan60]

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.

Funny, we always called it a "cat's" game. And if both players play accurately (that is you always make the best move), you will always tie.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Funny, we always called it a "cat's" game. And if both players play accurately (that is you always make the best move), you will always tie.

Yes, always put the first X in a corner

 

[TallMan60]

Yes, always put the first X in a corner

Did you know it was the first game that a computer was taught to play? In the 50s.

 

[fire_breeze]

In poker parlance if you have 2 pair aces & eights you have the Dead Man's Hand, so named after Wild Bill Hickok who was said to be holding aces and eights when he was shot in the back by Jack McCall in the Mann-Lewis Saloon in Deadwood, South Dakota, August 2, 1876.

 

[smotherman]

Bill Gates house was partially designed using a Macintosh computer.

 

[smotherman]

18% of an Americans income is spent on transportation.

 

[smotherman]

7-Eleven is the largest retail chain in the world.

 

[smotherman]

Amtrak is the combination of the words "American" and "Track".

 

[smotherman]

The most productive workday is Tuesday and the least productive is Friday.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

At the Cistercian Valley of Our Lady Monastery in Praire Du Sac, Wisconsin, the 12 nuns produce 12 million wafers of altar bread a year.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

An average pencil will write 45,000 words or draw a straight line 10 miles long.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

There are 392 dimples on a golf ball.

 

[fire_breeze]

Wolves can go days on end without food. They can also eat 20 pounds of meat in a single sitting.

 

[smotherman]

October 1st is the official Coffee Day in Japan

 

[smotherman]

Of the 25 highest mountains on earth, 19 are in the Himalayas.

 

[smotherman]

ketchup began in Thailand. There it was labelled "Kachiap".

 

[smotherman]

On average women say 7,000 words per day. Men manage just over 2000.

 

[smotherman]

Adults watch double the amount of TV as teenagers do.

 

[smotherman]

when asked for a color, 3 out of 5 people will say red.

 

[smotherman]

we lose 11 oz. of weight while we are asleep at night.

 

[smotherman]

One in fourteen women is a natural blonde. Only one in sixteen men is.

 

[smotherman]

One plain milk chocolate candy bar has more protein than a banana.

 

[fire_breeze]

One plain milk chocolate candy bar has more protein than a banana.

More excuse to eat chocolate!

 

[mrtnmoon]

we lose 11 oz. of weight while we are asleep at night.

cool... if I could sleep for 20 years like rip van winkle I'd make it to my ideal weight.

 

[Weaseldiesel]

Dont know if this has already been posted, but the trm POSH comes from when people travelled the adlantic on ships. The term POSH is Port Out Starboard Home. Ensuring that their cabin was always facing the sun, when travelling from the UK to the States and back again.