useless trivia
Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 4:37 pm
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.
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.
