Total Trivia

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The word siren originates from Sanskrit syali meaning to bind. From this we get the Greek seire a rope. Hence the name of the legendary women or femmes fatales who lured sailors to their deaths with their singing.

In turn the word was used for the name of a medieval musical instrument, producing an enchanted sound. And from that, any apparatus that produces a sound which attracts our attention, such as the wail of an emergency vehicle, is known as a siren.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The average woman spends two years of her life gazing in the mirror.

Women are estimated to buy 80% of everything sold.

The average size of womens breasts has increased from a 34B in the 1950's to a 36C.

 

[fire_breeze]

No president of the United States was an only child.

 

[fire_breeze]

10 percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.

 

[DLP1265]

The oldest Olympiad was 70.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Humans share 35 per cent of their DNA with daffodils.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Only two per cent of the electricity used by a lightbulb is converted into light - the rest into heat.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

A penny dropped from the top of the Empire State Building would only sting a pedestrian at ground level.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

In 2001 scientists unearthed the remains of an ancient crocodile in the Sahara desert that was as long as a city bus and as heavy as a small whale.

The giant creature, which lived 110 million years ago, during the Middle Cretaceous, grew as long as 40 feet (12 meters) and weighed as much as eight metric tons (17,500 pounds).

Its jaws alone were nearly six feet (1.8 meters) long and its more than 100 teeth so powerful that the colossal creature probably consumed small dinosaurs as well as fish.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The ancestry of sharks dates back more than 200 million years before the earliest known dinosaur.

 

[smotherman]

You can send a postcard from Hell. There is a small town located in the Cayman Islands called "Hell." They have a post office.

 

[smotherman]

The Rainbow Bridge is the world's largest natural bridge. It is located at the base of Navajo Mountain, Utah and is as long as a football field.

 

[smotherman]

The world's cleanest air is in Tasmania.

 

[Stillstiff]

animals hatched from an egg have no belly buttons

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Britons eat 97% of the world's baked beans.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The average person will, in the course of a life-time, eat 550 chickens and other poultry, 36 pigs, 36 sheep and 8 cows.

 

[fire_breeze]

The average adult male ostrich, the world's largest living bird, weighs up to 345 pounds

 

[fire_breeze]

You can send a postcard from Hell. There is a small town located in the Cayman Islands called "Hell." They have a post office.

Now I know where they are building my condo!

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Hitler was on the shortlist for the 1938 Nobel Peace Prize.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Queen Victoria spoke Urdu and Hindi.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Each successive monarch faces in a different direction on British coins.

 

[smotherman]

Now I know where they are building my condo!

Right next to my condo! howdy neighbor.



A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.

 

[smotherman]

At lift off, US space shuttles weight about 4.5 million pounds.

 

[smotherman]

Every 25 miles a car produces one pound of pollution.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

62% of the worlds 100 richest men are married to brunettes.

I guess redheads are out of fashion