Total Trivia

[Gaia_Lorraine]

In the mid-90’s, George Lucas proposed a fourth Indy film called “Indiana Jones and the Saucer Men From Mars.” Jeb Stuart, screenwriter of Die Hard and The Fugitive, was hired to pen the script. An unconfirmed 1995 draft showed up online ten years later, and the story involved an alien artifact which continuously changes possession between Indy, Russian badguys, and aliens from another planet.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The only planet that has had an observatory established solely for its study is Mars.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

From the largest galaxy to the smallest electron particle every piece of matter in the universe spins.

 

[smotherman]

The deepest mine in the world is the East Rand mine, which goes to a depth of about 3,585 metres.

 

[smotherman]

The only married couple to fly together in space were Jan Davis and Mark Lee, who flew aboard the Endeavor space shuttle from Sept 12-20, 1992.

 

[smotherman]

The sun shrinks five feet every hour.

 

[smotherman]

The planet Venus spins opposite to the other planets in the solar system.

 

[NorthernPA4U]

Roger Bowen, who played Col. Henry Blake in the movie M*A*S*H, died one day after McLean Stephenson, who played the same character in the television series.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The deepest mine in the world is the East Rand mine, which goes to a depth of about 3,585 metres.

And...
The world's largest diamond mine in eastern Siberia (Mirny, to be exact) is so deep (1200 metres) that the surrounding air zone is closed for helicopters after a few accidents when they were 'sucked in' by downward air flow.

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j160/Gaia_Lorraine/DiamondMine03.jpg

The red arrow in the following pic is pointing to a 220-ton rock-hauling truck more than 20' tall.

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j160/Gaia_Lorraine/mirny_belaz.jpg

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

You may have heard that the Chinese authorities have confessed to a few 'cheats' in staging th 2008 Beijing Olympics, namely...

The pretty little girl who sang at the opening ceremony not only mimed the song but also that it was not her voice, the original singer was deemed 'not pretty enough'.
Then we hear that some of the firework display shown on tv screens around the world was in fact computer generated graphics.

Well it's our turn next and so London has come up with some cost-saving ideas in the midst of a world recession for the 2012 London Olympics...

A computer graphic of Freddie Mercury singing "Barcelona" will be the opening ceremony.
No accommodation will be built for the athletes, in fact no stadium or facilities will be built whatsoever. Instead all the Olympic events will take place by the athletes from their homes using Wii consoles.

 

[Sienna]

NEWS just in TODAY!

Real sex is to banned throughout the world on demand of Microsoft Corporation. They claim it is the ideal method of birth control so far known to man other than restraint.

The corporation is giving away a free webcam to all those who participate. And a free one year membership to an online adult community website of their choice.

This, say the corporation, will encourage webcam-shared cybersex thus reducing the population using electronic means. Kleenex have also given their support to the campaign. But, according to official sources, Durex executives are contemplating major closures of their worldwide factories by 2011.

A UK National Health spokesperson said that the future is not as bleak as it seems as re-training for obstetricians and midwives in IT will be planned should Microsoft's demands be taken seriously. Already many of the worlds health organisations are planning to use Microsoft as their source of re-training programs.

http://antyblogeria.blox.pl/resource/cybersex..jpg

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[smotherman]

Central Park located in New York has 125 drinking fountains.

 

[smotherman]

In Las Vegas, casinos do not have any clocks.

 

[DLP1265]

Oscar Swahn, the oldest Olympic champion ever, won a gold medal in 1920 when he was 72.

 

[smotherman]

In Las Vegas, the busiest and two most popular days chosen for couples to get married are St. Valentine's Day and New Year's Eve.

If anyone is coming to vegas to get married, May I suggest getting married at the Venetian on the gondola.

 

[smotherman]

The deepest cave in the world is the "Lamprechtsofen-Vogelshacht" cave which can be found in Salzburg, Austria. The cave is 5,354 feet deep.

 

[smotherman]

And...
The world's largest diamond mine in eastern Siberia (Mirny, to be exact) is so deep (1200 metres) that the surrounding air zone is closed for helicopters after a few accidents when they were 'sucked in' by downward air flow.

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j160/Gaia_Lorraine/DiamondMine03.jpg

The red arrow in the following pic is pointing to a 220-ton rock-hauling truck more than 20' tall.

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j160/Gaia_Lorraine/mirny_belaz.jpg

Also, the world's longest oil pipeline, the second longest railway tunnel.

 

[Daizie]

Cruise anyone?

The average cruise ship burns approximately 1 gallon of fuel to move just 6 inches.

Royal Caribbean’s 142,000 ton behemoth, “Voyager of the Seas,” is the first ship ever to have its own zip code (33132-2028). Hosting up to 3,114 passengers, it’s approximately 42,000 tons larger than the U.S. Navy’s largest aircraft carrier, and features a 15,000 square foot fitness center, 9-hole golf course, 200-foot rock-climbing wall, two-story library containing over 3,000 books, and a regulation-size ice skating rink!

 

[Daizie]

August - Named for Augustus, the Roman emperor. Originally it was called Sextilis for the 6th month of the Roman calendar.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Well I never knew that!

There are rivers flowing through much of the Sahara. Unfortunately they are deep beneath volcanic rock but a bore hole now supplies the town of Atar, Mauritius with 36,000 litres of water per hour.

 

[Sienna]

Did you know that the word lesbian dates back to 1732 and lesbianism appears in the 1870 Oxford English Dictionary meaning sexual orientation rather than a reference to Sappho and inhabitants of Lesbos. Until the early twentieth century lesbian was interchangeable with Sapphist.

Today, sapphists or sapphics are not entirely lesbian but bisexual, which means that sapphic women are attracted to both male and female in a way that they accept such relationships. A typical sapphic will appear very feminine without displaying their preferred sexual orientation towards other women.

A psychological description best fitting a sapphic is "femme fatale" as they will make love to men in order to derive more from them, i.e fortune, power and a comfortable lifestyle which they tend to share with selected and sometimes secret female lovers. This makes them potential men "users" rather than "men haters", using their heterosexual attractiveness to their best advantage.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

A psychological description best fitting a sapphic is "femme fatale" as they will make love to men in order to derive more from them, i.e fortune, power and a comfortable lifestyle which they tend to share with selected and sometimes secret female lovers. This makes them potential men "users" rather than "men haters", using their heterosexual attractiveness to their best advantage.

I'll go with that

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Longest sentence contenders...

# 1,287 words - The Guinness Book of World Records has an entry for what it claims is the longest sentence in English, from William Faulkner's novel Absalom, Absalom! containing 1,287 words.

# 12,931 - The last section of James Joyce's Ulysses, Molly Bloom's soliloquy, includes two sentences, the first one 11,281 words long, the second 12,931 words long.

# 13,955 - In 2001 Jonathan Coe had a 13,955-word sentence in his novel, The Rotters' Club.

# 2,403,109 - The Blah Story, Volume 16, 17, 18 and 19 by Nigel Tomm consist of one sentence which contains 2,403,109 words or 15,403,732 characters (with spaces); The Blah Story, Volume 4 by Nigel Tomm consists of one sentence which contains 469,375 words or 2,273,551 characters (with spaces).

# 3,000,000 - Mark Leach’s Marienbad My Love, marketed as the world’s longest published novel in English, features a sentence that contains about 3 million words of the 17 million-word book.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The shortest English sentence is probably “Go.” “Go” is an action verb and can be used in imperative mood, which means that it can be used with good, old “You Understood.”
So “Go” actually means “You go.”

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The Bible comprises 24 books for Jews, 66 for Protestants, 73 for Catholics, and 78 for most Orthodox Christians.