Crazy Addictive Trivia

• The namesake for Hershey's Kisses comes from the machine that makes them "kissing" the conveyor belt.
• In Los Angeles in 1994, cars off the assembly line actually output cleaner air than they took in due to the carbon dioxide content in the atmosphere and the ease at which cars burned it.
• If a frog's eyes are closed, it is probably swallowing, as it cann't do so otherwise.
• A clock that loses a half an hour per day will show the correct time again in 24 days.
• Gerald Ford was both Vice-President and President of the U.S., but elected to neither position.
• The most popular beverage in America is still milk.
• Wall Street was named for a barrier to keep "hostile" Indians at bay in New York City.
• The kids song 'Ring-a(round the)-Ring-a-Roses', believe it or not, refers to the plague, which claimed approximately 30 million lives in the 1300s.
• W.C. Fields horded $50,000 in Germany during the second world war, 'in case the little bastard wins'.
• The desert rat can copulate as many as 120 times in one hour.
• A normal human will blink their eyes over 10 million times per year.
• In the mega-hit film, "Pulp Fiction" every clock displays "4:20" (the universal time to smoke marijuana).
• The brain of an ostrich is smaller than its eye.
• The biggest human muscle is the buttock; the strongest, the tongue; the thickest, the lower back.
• One in four people bitten by canines are bitten by German Shepherds.
• The "denim" in denim jeans originates from 'de Nimes'. The town of Nimes, France was where it was first produced.
• On average, a creative child utilizes 730 crayolas by the time they turn ten.
• Dermochelys coriacea, also known as the leatherback turtle of the sea, grows up to 9 feet, weighing up to a ton. They can swim and dive to incredible distances.
• Coca-Cola's brand name comes from the leaves of the coca plant and the nuts of the kola employed for distinctive flavoring. The beverage's maker, John Pemberton, switched the 'K' of kola to 'C' for marketing purposes.
• Using only the top row of the standard keyboard, the word TYPEWRITER, is the longest that can be typed.
• Negative 40 degrees Fahrenheit is the same as negative 40 Celsius.
• Cherrapunji, India is the wettest place on the planet; go there during monsoon season, but bring an umbrella. . . and a boat.
• The idea for the frisbee originated with the Frisbie Baking Company (1871-1958) of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Upon selling pies to New England colleges, the kids took to using the empty pie tins for throwing and catching. A light bulb went on in Walter Fredrick Morrison head, and the "Pluto Platter" frisbee toy was soon born.
• There is far more space between the atoms in the human body than there are atoms themselves. If such space was removed, a human could pass through the eye of a needle.
• The infamous weatherman Willard Scott was the original Ronald McDonald. The original clown outfit consisted of hamburger bun shoes, a cup on the nose, and a hat resembling a hamburger meal. That was in 1960, before the traditional clown outfit was adopted instead.

• Toenails grow about 4 times slower than fingernails.
• Seven out of 10 houses in the U.S. are painted white.
• The normal candy bar contains eight insect legs.
• Fish scales is the most common ingredient in lipstick .
• Barbara Millicent Roberts? A.K.A. Barbie (as in Ken and Barbie).
• The stirrup bone is the tiniest bone in a person.
• Homosexuality is more common in male fruit bats than anywhere else in the animal kingdom (or human).
• The only consumable food that won't spoil is honey.
• The real Charlie Chaplin once came in third in a Chaplin look-alike contest.
• At their closest point, Russia and North America are less than two and a half miles (4km) away.
• An Anencephalous organism thinks, but has no brain.
• The biggest earner in the female music world is Madonna, selling over 125 million records worldwide.
• Coffee is second only to petrol in largest trade volumes on the planet.
• It is impossible to drown in quicksand if one raises their legs slowly while lying on their back.
• On the last day of 1993, the oldest cow on record died just before her 49th birthday. Her name was Big Bertha, a Dremon breed.
• In 1979, Colonel Sanders (of Kentucky Fried Chicken) was the second most recognized face in the world.
• The longest flight on record for a chicken is 13 seconds.
• WD-40 actually stands for Water Displacement, 40th Attempt, for that was how many times it took to perfect the product.
• Napoleon III was vastly afflicted with ailurophobia, the unnatural fear of felines.
• There's just one place in the world where a yact can sail beneath a train chugging beneath a car driving beneath an airplane: the Boston University Bridge.
• Each day an adult dolphin consumes four to nine percent of its own body weight in fish.
• Shanghai, China, is the most populous city on the planet, boasting 13.3 within city limits themselves. Concerning metropolitan areas, the prize goes to Toyko, Japan, at 31.2 million.
• It would be a sight to see to see a parliament of owls roosting next to a blessing of unicorns.
• By the numbers, twenty-three million cats will reside in United States this year.
• When bacteria feeds on yeast cells and defecates, alcohol is born. Most notably: beer.

• The sea turtle (leatherback) is the biggest reptile alive.
• The Marianas Trench, discovered in 1951, is the deepest spot in the ocean. Mount Everest could fit in it and still be over a mile underwater.
• The turkey buzzard has the longest life span in the world at up to 30 years in captivity.
• Without carotene the carrot wouldn't be orange.
• trivia imageBilbo and Frodo Baggins were both born September 22.
• 'Samuel Adams' Triple Bock beer has reached 17% alcohol by volume--the world's strongest.
• Marcel Bich, a Frenchman, invented the Bic pen. They dropped the "h" so it wouldn't be pronounced "bitch" in America.
• If gum is chewed while peeling onions, the peeler won't cry.
• In Paraguay, it is legal to duel so long as both parties are listed as blood donors.
• Dolphins never truly sleep. If they did, they would suffocate because they can't breathe when they're unconscious. Therefore, they sleep with one eye open, letting half of their brain sleep at a time.
• If a person polishes with "Pledge" furniture polish in the States, they are polishing with "piss" in the Netherlands; that's what the term means there.
• Jimmy Hoffa's middle initial was "R". It stood for "Riddle".
• The south pole is colder than the north pole.
• J.C. Penney's full name is James Cash Penney's.
• Pine cones can be used to forecast rain. The scales will shut up when it is on the way.
• In one day's time, bamboo often grows three feet long.
• During the average year, 100 people die from choking on ball point pens.
• Ketchup originally began as a common name for sauce. It was usually made with mushrooms or the brine from fish, combined with spices and herbs. Mushroom "ketchup" is still sold in the UK and other countries. Other early ingredients in the ketchup sauce included lobster, oyster and anchovy, walnut, grape, lemon, cucumber, cranberry and kidney bean.
• The name Häagen-Dazs isn't European, rather a made-up name designed to look European to Americans. It's a "foreign branding" marketing ploy.
• The shortest full sentence in the English language is "Go"
• The term "melon head" comes from the dolphin, the forehead of which is actually called a "melon" due to its unique shape.
• Not only are butterflies pretty, they taste with their feet.
• A guy by the name of Ernest Vincent Wright once wrote a 50,000-word book without using the letter "e".
• Every sixty seconds in the United States 6 people turn 17.
• By the numbers, 437 questions are asked by a 4-year-old per day.

• Six percent of all American men are killed by either their wife or girlfriend - or wife who caught them with their girlfriend.
• If the planet Saturn could be thrown into a lake, it would float.
• During the last 3,500 years the world has been at peace only 8 percent of the time.
• Uri Geller, the professional psychic was born on December 20 1946. As to the origin of his alleged powers, Mr Geller maintains that they come from the distant planet of Hoova.
• The Ameraucana and Araucana chicken breeds can lay eggs colored in shades of green or blue, depending on the breed and it's ancestry.
• Americans eat something like 24 million hotdogs every day.
• During a 1976 doctors strike, the death rate in Los Angeles dropped 18 percent.
• Certain fireflies emit a light so penetrating that it can pass through flesh and wood.
• The tip of a rotary mower travels at over 200 km/hr.
• Obsidian, used by American Indians for tools, weapons and ornaments, is dark volcanic glass.
• There are over 200 religious denominations in the United States.
• South Africa produces two-thirds of the world's gold.
• Sarah Michelle Gellar was sued by McDonalds at the age of four. She appeared in a Burger King advert where she said, “Do I look 20 per cent smaller to you? I must have at McDonalds because their hamburgers are 20 per cent smaller than Burger King’s.” It was the first time a company used another company’s name in an advert so McDonald’s sued Burger King, the advertising agency, and Sarah herself.
• On average, we breathe between 12 and 18 times a minute.
• The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.
• Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as Pres. Bush in 1991.
• At the age of 12, Martin Luther King became so depressed he tried committing suicide twice, by jumping out of his bedroom window.
• An Elephant has the world's largest penis, weighing about 27 kg.
• Medical experts say you should sleep on your right side to improve digestion.
• Potholes in American roads cost Americans over $100 million in repairs every day.
• Flamingos are not naturally pink.
• The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
• India has a Bill of Rights for cows.
• During the Medieval Crusades, transporting bodies off the battlefield for burial was a major problem, this was solved by carrying a huge cauldron into the Holy wars, boiling down the bodies, and taking only the bones with them.
• IBM started as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Corporation.

• Archimedes was killed because of pi.
• Last year, trains running late cost the country $14.
• Just one in twenty children are born on their expected due date.
• Yankee Doodle was the first musical recording.
• The original voice of Mickey Mouse was provided by Walt Disney himself.
• trivia imageWhen glass shatters, the cracks splinter at speeds in excess of 3,000 mph.
• Because the earth is slowing down, each day is 0.00000002 seconds longer than the one before.
• Today the Egyptian pyramids are actually located more than 3 miles south of where they were built due to the earth's shifting surface.
• A Czech flight attendant once fell 33,316 feet and survived.
• LASER stands for "Light Amplification by Stimulated Emissions of Radiation".
• The first train to ever carry people made its maiden voyage n 1825 in England.
• The phrase 'Mind your P's and Q's' stems from old times when ales were sold by the pint or quart. Minding your p's and q's meant not to drink too much. (debated: other sites maintain that the phrase came from the old printers when the "p" block and the "q" block looked too similar since they were printed backward, so they were kept in two different drawers).
• Acorns on oak trees don't come out until the tree is 50 years old.
• The ashes of a cremated adult weighs approximately 9 lbs.
• The word "month" has no rhyming words in the English language.
• Though a duck's quack might be loud, it doesn't echo.
• In Cuba, toasters are illegal.
• There are more babies born in India every year than there are people in the entire continent of Australia.
• Approximately every 15 seconds in the United States, a head injury occurs. (5,760 per day, 2,102,400 per year).
• Lobster was one of the main courses at the first Thanksgiving celebration.
• When a fly lands on the ceiling, it grabs on with its front legs and swings the rest of itself up. Therefore it performs a loop, or flip, not a roll, as is commonly believed.
• There are tiny holes around the cap of soda bottle to enable the pressure to release when unscrewed. Without them, every bottle would explode open like a champagne bottle.
• Bicycle tires will always go flat if gone unused long enough.
• No one knows how the M&M logo is printed on the candies, only that it is done by machine. Also, the letters stand for Mars and Murrie.
• The percent of colors in M&M candies: 30% brown, 20% yellow and red, 10% orange, green, and tan.

Completely Useless Trivia Lot #1:

• Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark (motivation for light bulb?)
  
• The grapefruit is man-made: a hybrid between the pomelo and the orange.
• The Pentagon is the largest office building in the world.
• Hydrogen hydroxide is commonly known as water.
• American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
• Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, with a population of 1000 and a size 108.7acres.
• More money is spent each year on alcohol and cigarettes than on Life insurance.
• The idea of painting a centre white line was first experimented in 1921 in Sutton Coldfield Birmingham, England. Following complaints by residents over reckless driving and several collisions, the Sutton Coldfield Corporation decided to paint the line on Maney Corner in the area of Maney.
• Tiny Tim called his daughter Tulip after his 1968 hit 'Tiptoe through the Tulips'.
• A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
• Your foot is nearly the same length as your forearm as measured from the inside of the elbow to the wrist.
• Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers were all invented by women.
• Orgin of Ebay - Pierre Omidyar, who had created the Auction Web trading website, had formed a web consulting concern called Echo Bay Technology Group. "Echo Bay" didn't refer to the town in Nevada, the nature area close to Lake Mead, or any real place. "It just sounded cool," Omidyar reportedly said. When he tried to register EchoBay.com, though, he found that Echo Bay Mines, a gold mining company, had gotten it first. So, Omidyar registered what (at the time) he thought was the second best name: eBay.com.
• The Angel falls in Venezuela are nearly 20 times taller than Niagara falls.
• The average human produces the same amount of heat as a 100 watt light bulb.
• Taft was the last President with facial hair.
• During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance.
• Why are those gossip-hunting spies called eavesdroppers? It is because in Middle English, the water that falls from the eaves of a house was called eavesdrop, and eavesdropper was first used to describe someone who would stand close to a house in order to hear what was going on inside.
• There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
• A total of 382 kg of rock samples were returned to the Earth by the Apollo and Luna programs.
• Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
• The little plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
• "Dreamt" and "undreamt" are the only English words that end in the letters "mt".
• At one time, Australia had a population of 17,800,000 people compared to 162,774,000 sheep [9.25 : 1 ], and New Zealand had 3,400,000 people compared to 57,000,000 sheep [16.75 : 1].
• Despite common belief, when you are eating shrimp 'tails' and lobster 'tails', you are in fact eating the abdomen of the creature. The real tail is made up of the inedible fins at the end of the abdomen. Also despite common belief, the 'vein' running down the back of shrimp 'tails' is not a vein, but is the intestines of the shrimp.
• Turkeys often look up at the sky during a rainstorm. Unfortunately some have been known to drown as a result.
• Manholes are round so that the covers don't accidentally fall into the holes.
• More toilets flush during the half time of the superbowl than at any other time.
• On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the '1' encased in the 'shield' and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
• Sophia Loren's sister was once married to the son of the Italian dictator, Mussolini.
• In the United Kingdom Indian restaurants employ more people than steel making, mining and shipbuilding industries put together!
• In the USA an average of 55,700 people are injured by their own jewellery every year.
• Approximately 1 out of 25 people suffers from asthma.
• A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
• The continents names all end with the same letter with which they start.
• A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
• In the movie Titanic, a man with a yellow shirt and a black moustache fell off the boat and drowned. Five minutes later the same exact man was seen playing the violin with two other men. Apparently he cashed in as an extra too.
• McDonald's sell more than 1/3 of all the French fries sold in restaurants in the U.S. each year.
• Edison tried to invent a gun-powder powered engine for a helicopter and instead blew up his lab.
• According to National Geographic, scientists have settled the old dispute over which came first -- the chicken or the egg. They say that reptiles were laying eggs thousands of years before chickens appeared, and the first chicken came from an egg laid by a bird that was not quite a chicken.
• The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
• There is a town in West Virginia USA called Looneyville.
• So far in the twentieth century, two objects have hit the earth's surface with enough force to destroy a medium size city. By pure luck both have landed in sparsely populated Siberia.
• The mathematician Cardano was imprisoned for doing the horoscope of Jesus Christ.
• Fleas can live for months without food.
• By age 60, most people have lost half of their taste buds.
• Every time you step forward, you use fifty four muscles.
• The 'Alligator Pear' is better known as the avocado.
• The library of congress contains 327 miles of bookshelves.
• Conception occurs more in December than any other month.