Useless Trivia!

[Pazzo]

An Arrowana is thought to bring its adopted family wealth and luck, as well as absorb any harmful chi that would harm its family, and die before it let any harm come to them

 

[Revnarh]

Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to SLOW a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.

 

[BlackDog]

The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotam-eteaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokai-whenu a kitanatahu – a New Zealand hill.

 

[Pazzo]

holy shit that was a mouthful....

Goldfish are a type of carp

 

[Revnarh]

According to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, it is possible to go slower than light and faster than
light, but it is impossible to go the speed of light. Also, there is a particle called tackyon, which is supposed to go faster than light. This means if you fire a tackyon beam, it travels before you fire it.

 

[RaznHellMichelle]

On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

 

[Jolie]

Honorificabilitudinitatibus is, at 27 letters, the longest English word consisting of alternating consonants & vowels.

 

[Revnarh]

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

 

[BlackDog]

A man will ejaculate approximately 18 quarts of semen in his lifetime.

 

[RaznHellMichelle]

^ Wow!

Only female mosquitoes will bite you.
...and they do it so well. Grrr.

 

[ShadowsLitany]

Reindeer like to eat bananas

 

[BlackDog]

The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.

 

[Revnarh]

When he appeared on Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!, Bill Clinton correctly answered three questions about My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.

 

[BlackDog]

A sequel called Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian was written but never produced. (Thank you for not producing that turd.)

 

[RaznHellMichelle]

The Pentagon is the largest office building in the world.

 

[BlackDog]

Mailing an entire building has been illegal in the U.S. since 1916 when a man mailed a 40,000-ton brick house across Utah to avoid high freight rates.

 

[Revnarh]

Fishing is the biggest participant sport in the world.

 

[BlackDog]

Oscar the Grouch used to be orange. Jim Henson decided to make him green before the second season of Sesame Street. How did Oscar explain the color change? He said he went on vacation to the very damp Swamp Mushy Muddy and turned green overnight.

 

[Revnarh]

In the four major US professional sports, (Baseball, Basketball, Football, and Hockey) there are only seven teams whose nicknames do not end with an "S."
Basketball: The Miami Heat, The Utah Jazz, The Orlando Magic.
Baseball: The Boston Red Sox, The Chicago White Sox.
Hockey: The Colorado Avalanche, The Tampa Bay Lightning. Football: None.

 

[BlackDog]

In 1961, Martha Stewart was selected as one of Glamour magazine's "Ten Best-Dressed College Girls."​

 

[RaznHellMichelle]

A tip for all you would be counterfeiters out there....

Money isn’t made out of paper, it’s made out of cotton.

 

[ShadowsLitany]

General Tso/Gau's Chicken is not from China

 

[RaznHellMichelle]

Sixty cows can produce a ton of milk a day.

(not including chocolate milk) *winks*

 

[ShadowsLitany]

Woodchucks do not chuck wood, if they could..which they can't.

No thumbs.

 

[Revnarh]

The cashew is part of a fruit that grows in tropical regions called 'a cashew apple'. After harvesting, the cashew apple keeps for only 24 hours before the soft fruit deteriorates. The cashew apple is not commercially important since it spoils quickly, but local people love the fruit. To harvest the nut, the ripe apple is allowed to fall to the ground where natives easily gather it. The apple and nut are separated.