useless trivia

[sgtkafka]

According to Genesis 1:20-22 the chicken came before the egg.

Bob Dylan turned The Beatles on to marijuana.

Ancient Egyptians shaved their eyebrows to mourn the deaths of their cats.

White-Out was invented by the mother of Mike Nesmith, formerly of the Monkees.

The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene

James Doohan, who played Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star Trek, is missing the entire middle finger of his right hand

If you stretch a standard Slinky out flat it measures 87 feet long.

The only member of the band ZZ Top without a beard has the last name Beard.

No words in the English language rhyme with orange, silver or purple.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

A whale's penis is called a dork.

fred oddwell led the national league
in homeruns in 1905. he had 9. he hit
only one other home run in his career.
his lead in homeruns prevented teamate
cy seymour from winning the triple crown
that year. cy led the nl in average and rbis,
but missed the homerun title by one.

*We eat approximately 9 spiders in our lifetime.

*A cockroach can survive 8 days without its head before it eventually starves to death.
*Supernatural novelist Anne Rice has stated that she fears the dark.

*Film director Alfred Hitchcock had a peculiar fear of eggs.

*Country star Lyle Lovett reportedly is afraid of cows.

*When he was 20, Julio Iglesias was in a near-fatal auto accident when a runaway truck forced his car off the road. Paralyzed from the chest down, Iglesias's dream of becoming a soccer star was destroyed. At the time, he was a law student and an amateur soccer player. During long months of recovery, Iglesias worked incessantly at physical therapy. He'd been told that he would likely never walk again, but he wouldn't resign himself to the doctors' grim prognosis. A nurse gave him a guitar to keep him entertained, and he taught himself to play by imitating songs from the radio. While still paralyzed, Iglesias told his mother that he would become a singing star. Iglesias did overcome his paralysis. By 1994, Iglesias was an international star: he had more than 200 platinum and gold records under his belt, was grossing $50 million a year, and was ranked the top Hispanic entertainer in the United States.

[sgtkafka]

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit or a twerp.

The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springstein's 'Born in the USA.'

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand

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

A day on Jupiter is about 9 hours, 50 minutes, 30 seconds at the equator

The nerve fibres in the squid are 500 times thicker than a humans' (It is for this reason that marine biotechnology medicine is looking into squids for treatment of nerve diseases such as Parkinsons)

When they were filming The Wizard of Oz, Frank Morgan who played the Professor (and the Wizard and a couple of other roles) decided to go to a thrift store to see about a coat that would fit his idea of the Professor. He found one that he liked and took it back to the studio. When they were cleaning it, they found the name L.F. Baum inside. It turned out that the coat had belonged to the author of the Wizard of OZ books.
Myanmar was known as Burma until 1989.

Paul Newman was disqualified from the Navy's
pilot training program during WWII because he
is color blind.

the kiwi was first called the Chinese Gooseberry.

the banana is the world's largest herb.

10% of American households leave milk
and cookies for Santa Claus.

[Spring]

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Untrue. I can.

We eat approximately 9 spiders in our lifetime.

This is, apparently, made up.

[Queeaqueg]

Quote:
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.


Untrue. I can.

The force of the sneeze is meant to knock your eyes out if you have thme open.

[Spring]

I've done it, and I still have my eyes.

[sgtkafka]

verify?

and the spider thing is true, i am ahead of the number, but it averages out.

[drew]

I believe them in our sleep.

[Cheval]

SuperGlue was first intended to use on cuts to stop the bleeding and mend the skin back in place without stitches.
(Used on the battlefields)

[Usivius]

Tom Sellick was suppose to be Indiana Jones before schedueling conflicts with Magnum PI ruined that.

Sean Connery was suppose to be Gandalf in Jackson's LotR trilogy before opting out as he did not want to spend that much time in NEw Zealand.

[theDespiser]

i think the spider number is a little off..ive heard its a little less...

and ive sneezed with my eyes open before..just to see if it could be done...they were ALL the way open, but they werent shut...i guess it was an extreme squint...

[dANdeLION]

I just want to know how many times in my life will I sneeze out a spider I swallowed in my sleep with my eyes open.

[Lorelei]

I just want to know how many times in my life will I sneeze out a spider I swallowed in my sleep with my eyes open.

Exactly once....it will cause your head to explode and we will have to use battlefield superglue to fix it.....


BTW: The invention of Teflon was an accident.....a scientist at DuPont ordered a custom mixture of gasses for a project he was working on. These gases do not react at normal temperature and pressure....when he went to use the gas mixture for the first time...there was no pressure in the cylinder. After some investigation, they decided to cut open the cylinder to figure out what happened and found that a polymer material had formed inside....Teflon.

[Variol Farseer]

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit or a twerp.

Speaking of which, 'twerp', meaning a foolish or disagreeably eccentric person, derives from T.W. Earp, an Oxford don of the early 20th century. J.R.R. Tolkien, who was an undergraduate at Oxford during Earp's time there, referred to him as 'T.W. Earp, the original twerp'.

Now, trivia doesn't get much more useless than that.

[deewilldo]

the original name for a typewriter was "literary piano"

the expression "to wet your whistle" as in have a drink came from olde england and referred to the whistle that was built into all drinking pitchers and when your drink was empty you blew on whistle to get a refill,

[Elfgirl]

A whale's penis is called a dork.

So everyone you call a "dork" is in fact...

Also, following on from the 'twerp'...T.S. Eliot is an anagram of "toilets"!

[Warmark]

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

How stupid would have to be to do this?

[sgt.null]

Sherwood Anderson - writer
1941 --- after swallowing a toothpick at a cocktail party he died of peritonitis on an ocean liner bound for Brazil.

Sir Francis Bacon
1626 --- pneumonia. He was experimenting with freezing a chicken by stuffing it with snow.

Frank Hayes - jockey
1923 --- heart attack during a race. His horse, Sweet Kiss, won the race, making Hayes the only deceased jockey to win a race.

Mark Maples
1964 --- 1st person to be killed on a ride in Disneyland. He stood up while riding the Matterhorn Bobsleds and was thrown to his death. (There have been 7 deaths at Disneyland since its opening in 1955.)

[Spring]

Mark Maples
1964 --- 1st person to be killed on a ride in Disneyland. He stood up while riding the Matterhorn Bobsleds and was thrown to his death. (There have been 7 deaths at Disneyland since its opening in 1955.)

Good publicity.

[sgt.null]

check this out, why the electric chair was invented.

www.correctionhistory.org/auburn&osborn ... moran.html

[Cheval]

Bubble gum was invented by mistake.
Originally, it was a "foul-up" from trying to produce a better rubber for tires.