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Trivial facts
RankenphilePassersby were amazedby the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, ModeratorMod Emeritus
what walks on 4 legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening
it turns out it's man
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RankenphilePassersby were amazedby the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, ModeratorMod Emeritus
edited June 2007
It is illegal for unmarried couples to have sex in a hotel room in North Carolina.
Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every second.
Baskin Robbins once made ketchup ice cream.
Women buy four out of every 10 condoms sold.
Coca-Cola was the first soft drink to be consumed in outer space.
Each year 96 billion pounds of food is wasted in the U.S.
Stannous fluoride, which is the cavity fighter found in toothpaste is made from recycled tin.
Former U.S. President Franklin Pierce was arrested during his term as President for running over an old lady with his horse, but the charges were later dropped.
In Pennsylvania, it is illegal for a babysitter to raid the fridge.
There's one state out west where it's illegal to cross state lines with a camel, I believe.
Another has a law about having a duck on your head or some shit.
In Fahrenheit 451, a book in which books are burned, there are characters named Montag and Faber.
Montag is a paper manufacturer. Faber is a brand of pencils.
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Hamlet will be Hamlet An ineffable tragedy of the human spirit that still resonates, even today.
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RankenphilePassersby were amazedby the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, ModeratorMod Emeritus
edited June 2007
The city of Las Vegas has the most hotel rooms in the world.
The number of births that occur in India each year is higher than the entire population of Australia.
Kermit the frog delivered the commencement address at Southampton College located in the state of New York in 1996.
The Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is farther East than the Atlantic entrance.
First-cousin marriages are legal in Utah, so long as both parties are 65 or older.
Redheads require more anesthesia to 'go under' than other hair colors do.
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HunterChemist with a heart of AuRegistered Userregular
edited June 2007
The phrase "the whole nine yards" come from World War II fighter pilots. The large belts of machine gun ammunition were 9 yards in length. While on strafing missions, they would unleash all of their ammunition into a single target. It became a common term for going all the way or giving something all you had.
"Rule of thumb" refers to a time when it was legal for a man to beat his wife, so long as the object used was no wider than his thumb.
This led to problems for women married to dudes with big thumbs.
completely fake trivia is the best trivia
I thought that was true.
What's QI?
EDIT: And where are we getting this shit from?
Domestic violence/discipline
It is often claimed that the term originally referred to the maximum thickness of a stick with which it was permissible for a man to beat his wife.[1] This explanation for the origin of the term was popularized in the opening of the 1999 movie The Boondock Saints.
Linguist Michael Quinion, citing the research of Sharon Fenick, notes that there are some examples of a related usage historically — most notably with regard to a supposed pronouncement by a British judge, Sir Francis Buller, that a man may legally beat his wife, provided that he used a stick no thicker than his thumb. However, it is questionable whether Buller ever made such a pronouncement and there is even less evidence that he phrased it as a "rule of thumb"; the rumoured statement was so unpopular that it caused him to be lambasted as "Judge Thumb" in a satirical James Gillray cartoon. According to Quinion, the term "Rule of Thumb" was first documented in English in 1692, long before Buller's reported pronouncement. The first known usage of the phrase "rule of thumb" in direct reference to domestic violence was in 1976, in the book Battered Wives by Del Martin.
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U-Haul is the world's largest advertiser in the Yellow Pages.
The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.
Microsoft made $16,005 in revenue in its first year of operation.
The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean.
Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every second.
Baskin Robbins once made ketchup ice cream.
Women buy four out of every 10 condoms sold.
Coca-Cola was the first soft drink to be consumed in outer space.
Each year 96 billion pounds of food is wasted in the U.S.
Stannous fluoride, which is the cavity fighter found in toothpaste is made from recycled tin.
Former U.S. President Franklin Pierce was arrested during his term as President for running over an old lady with his horse, but the charges were later dropped.
I wouldn't know what to say if my landlord came by though
There are three golf balls sitting on the moon.
Tug of War was an Olympic event between 1900 and 1920.
Every day, the average person swallows about a quart of mucous.
There are 53 Lego bricks manufactured for each person in the world.
Every hour one billion cells in the body must be replaced.
The penis of a barnacle may reach up to 20 times its body size.
There's one state out west where it's illegal to cross state lines with a camel, I believe.
Another has a law about having a duck on your head or some shit.
it is a lagoom
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He also had a servant that was only there to wipe the king's butt.
discuss.
and we all know it
This led to problems for women married to dudes with big thumbs.
Bamboo plants can grow up to 36 inches in a day.
It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
7-11 sells 10,000 pots of coffee an hour, every hour, every day.
New Zealand is the first country to allow women to vote.
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for approximately sixty-nine years.
During a typical human life span, the human heart will beat approximately 2.5 billion times.
I never said they weren't.
Montag is a paper manufacturer. Faber is a brand of pencils.
EDIT: What's QI?
Hamlet will be Hamlet
An ineffable tragedy of the human spirit that still resonates, even today.
The number of births that occur in India each year is higher than the entire population of Australia.
Kermit the frog delivered the commencement address at Southampton College located in the state of New York in 1996.
The Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is farther East than the Atlantic entrance.
First-cousin marriages are legal in Utah, so long as both parties are 65 or older.
Redheads require more anesthesia to 'go under' than other hair colors do.
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completely fake trivia is the best trivia
The Mammoth Book of Tasteless Lists.
I thought that was true.
What's QI?
EDIT: And where are we getting this shit from?
JordynNolz.com <- All my blogs (Shepard, Wasted, J'onn, DCAU) are here now!
it's a funny and educational little english quiz show,
also
Humans use only 10% or less of their brain: Even though many mysteries of brain function persist, every part of the brain has a known function
In 1994, 14 people died during a burial in the Nigerian Nsukka after they ate the dog of the man who died.
It is illegal to purchase or consume Jack Daniel's Whiskey in the town in which it is produced.
Pringles light potato chips may not be labled either “Light” or “Potato Chips” per US FDA regulations.
Most car horns honk in the key of 'F'.
In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania it is illegal to have sex with a truck driver inside a toll booth.
It snowed in the Sahara desert on February 18, 1979.
Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
Coffee drinkers have sex more frequently than non-coffee drinkers.