Post your useless trivia

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  • Melroxsox
    Melroxsox Posts: 1,040 Member
    Some pretty upsetting facts I learned the other day!

    1. The band Creed has sold more albums in the U.S. then Jimi Hendrix.

    &

    2. Led Zeppelin has never had a #1 single, Rhianna has had 10.

    Sad :(
    oh dear! that is terribly sad!
  • vendygirl
    vendygirl Posts: 718 Member
    The reason whistling in the theatre is taboo is because back in the old days they used to whistle cues to the fly rail (where they pull the scenery up and down) so if someone whistled, who wasn't supposed to, set pieces could come down at the wrong time and hurt someone.
  • Angie_1991
    Angie_1991 Posts: 447 Member
    some turtles can breathe from their butts.
  • Jimaudit
    Jimaudit Posts: 275
    There were $3 bills printed in the 1800's but did not catch on with the banks so they were discontinued.

    The first billionaire was Henry Ford.

    50% of robberies occur on Friday.

    The avg American gets 6 credit card offers per month.

    40% of American families spend more than they make per month.

    The term "jiffy" as in "I'll be with you in a jiffy" is an actual unit of time (1/100 of a second).

    Months that begin on Sunday always include a Friday the 13th.

    Adding the numbers 1-100 equals 5050.

    85% of the people killed by lightning are male.
  • shelbyfrootcake
    shelbyfrootcake Posts: 965 Member
    Hair and nails do not continue to grow after death, but the body dehydrates causing the skin on the nail beds and follicles to recedd giving the appearance of nail/hair growth.
  • KimWW
    KimWW Posts: 301 Member
    In ancient Greece the color yellow was associated with the female gender, rather than pink.
  • sarai79
    sarai79 Posts: 90 Member
    The sperm whale's genital organs have a combined weight of a ton.:noway:
    They release 100 to 200 liters of semen during each ejaculation.:smokin:


    **don't drink ocean water :huh:
  • sarai79
    sarai79 Posts: 90 Member
    And one I just learned today:

    The last day there wasn't a single fatality on Texas roads was 12 years ago Wednesday, on Nov. 7, 2000.
  • junodog1
    junodog1 Posts: 4,792 Member
    Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
  • MagicWhispers
    MagicWhispers Posts: 43
    Coca-Cola was originally green.

    It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.

    Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.

    Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive
    from each salad served first class: $40,000.

    City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong.

    State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska

    Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
    Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%

    Average number of days a West German goes without washing his
    underwear: 7 (I wonder how they discovered THIS?
    I guarantee it wasn't original research on my part.)

    Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman
    if they had it to do all over again: 80%

    Percentage of American women who say they'd marry the same man if
    they had it to do all over again: 50%
    Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400

    Average number of people airborne over the US at any given hour: 61,000

    Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland/Disney World: 70%

    Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches

    Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
  • grammysboy
    grammysboy Posts: 151 Member
    What's the medical term for the "growling" sound your stomach makes? Borborygmus. Now...use it in a sentence and work it into a conversation with your co-workers.
  • pixtotts
    pixtotts Posts: 552 Member
    i havent read through what others have said yet...
    but i am the queen of useless trivia unfortunately its all my brain seems to remember soo....

    - the word fall for autumn thought to be American... nu uh it started in Britain but we dropped it here early 1800's
    - by 2020 there will be more cars in China alone than there were in the entire planet in 2000
    - the right page of a book is called the recto and the left verso
    - 7 out of 10 British dogs get presents from their owners
    - all embryos are female for the first 6 weeks, this is why men have nipples
    - we actually have 4 nostrils 2 external and 2 internal
    - first world war german uniforms were made from nettles

    thats it off the top of my head...
  • hjensen2263
    hjensen2263 Posts: 68 Member
    A sea anemone only has one gastric cavity, so they vomit up their poop through their mouths.
  • PJ64
    PJ64 Posts: 866 Member
    99% of statistics are made up over 50% of the time every other day in months that contain 2 or more vowels but not to include the sometimes acceptable "Y",............... or something :glasses:
  • BrettPGH
    BrettPGH Posts: 4,716 Member
    Men are biologically more attracted to women with big butts because this indicates fertility.

    and I can not lie...
  • MiloBloom83
    MiloBloom83 Posts: 2,724 Member
    The term"The whole 9 yards" originated with fighter pilots in WWII. Machine gun belts were 27 feet in length. When a pilot came back empty, he had given the enemy, "The whole 9 yards".
  • BondBomb
    BondBomb Posts: 1,781 Member
    Whenever you perform a lateral flow assay (such as a pregnancy test) the indicator line that changes color is made of gold that has been suspended in solution. It looks purple.
  • alias1001
    alias1001 Posts: 634 Member
    Karl Marx was financially dependent on his long-time intellectual partner Friedrich Engels, whose family owned a mill.
  • coolraul07
    coolraul07 Posts: 1,606 Member
    in cantonese slang, yee-maah which is the word for period. in usual conversation it is the word for auntie, which ties into the euphemism.

    "you wanna hang out today?" "

    "I can't my auntie is here".

    .true story.

    Your aunite's name wouldn't happen to be "Flo", would it? <bazinga>
  • coolraul07
    coolraul07 Posts: 1,606 Member
    There are more sheep than people in New Zealand.


    I heard this once, any Kiwis feel free to dispute that, it may not be true.
    There's a "Truely Tasteless Humor" joke in there, but I'm not going to be the one to say it... :happy:
  • coolraul07
    coolraul07 Posts: 1,606 Member
    83.9% of all statistics are made up.
    14% of people know this fact. .......
    And i'm 1 of them. :smokin:

    Also, there are 10 types of people in the world; those that understand binary, and those that don't! :tongue:
  • coolraul07
    coolraul07 Posts: 1,606 Member
    Men are biologically more attracted to women with big butts because this indicates fertility.
    In times of famine, men find larger women more attractive.
    ...cuz they must know where to find some food!
  • coolraul07
    coolraul07 Posts: 1,606 Member
    Wile E. Coyote once actually caught the roadrunner, then held up a sign asking the viewers, "Okay guys, I caught him. What now?"
    I saw that ep. He held up that sign because he was shrunked down to the size of the RR's foot.
  • coolraul07
    coolraul07 Posts: 1,606 Member
    Men are biologically more attracted to women with big butts because this indicates fertility.

    and I can not lie...

    "You other bruthas can't deny..." </Sir Mix-A-Lot>
  • masterharper64
    masterharper64 Posts: 7
    It's impossible to lick your own elbow (the outside bit) :smokin:



    /Sits back and watches people try

    False. I can do this.

    prove it

    I saw this demonstrated on tv recently when a girl in the audience during an episode of Russel Howards Good News (BBC UK) actually licked her own elbow during the show........so it can be done
  • horseplaypen
    horseplaypen Posts: 442 Member
    Selegiline, a drug used for treating canine hyperadrenocorticism, breaks down into methamphetamine.
  • summertime_girl
    summertime_girl Posts: 3,945 Member
    My daughter is full of useless trivia, so I have a ton. The latest, an elephant poops 260 pounds a day. And an average human has about ten pounds of skin.
  • beansprouts
    beansprouts Posts: 410 Member
    Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.

    Cat's only pee on stuff when their litter box is not clean.
  • Jenny_Taylia
    Jenny_Taylia Posts: 540 Member
    Its gets dark out at night time and light in the day.
  • Ms_Chai
    Ms_Chai Posts: 86 Member
    As much as its called a woodie.. a hard male sexual organ is not made of wood

    Lol... same with the term boner, there is infact no actual bone in the penis! :P


    Actually......there is an actual bone in the penis of many mammals (humans not included). It is called the baculum. :)

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