Weird Trivia Disclaimer
The massive amounts of useless trivia on this blog have been known to sidetrack readers for prolonged periods and may lead to chronic addiction. The webmaster general advises all users to remember to eat and bathe regularly. Furthermore, webmaster cannot be held responsible for illnesses due to lack of sleep and/or malnutrition and/or muscle atrophy from chronic exposure to the wild and crazy trivia you're about to digest. Reader discretion is advised.
But seriously, welcome to my new useless trivia project. Actually, this trivia blog is an outreach of my main trivia website located in the freebies section of AquariumUniverse.com. The site features over 1600 useless trivia factoids that I've collected from all over the internet and from my own personal research. Due to lack of time, however, I can't sufficiently promote the site, so I'm migrating all my addictive trivia over here where it's more likely to be found in the blogosphere.
Eventually, this blog will feature over 1600 bits of crazy trivia, oddities and "did you knows?"--the largest assembly of trivia on the internet (so far as I know). Some of it you might have heard before, but a bunch of it will be new to you, since I personally documented it. You'd be amazed at how much astonishing stuff you can find just by scanning through an encyclopedia. Most of it is just run of the mill data, but every once in a while something jumps off the page that gives you that moment of pause where you say to yourself: holy crap, I didn't know that! Like just the other day I read that the only mammal on earth that can't jump is the elephant. Completely useless, I know, but cool nevertheless. (As a sidenote here, did you know that you can also ascertain an elephant's exact height by adding the total circumference of all of its feet!)
Useless trivia never used to be an interest of mine, but I soon found out that it is highly addictive. Once you hit a trivia page, you just can't stop reading. It's really sort of astonishing. And it always leaves you wanting more, which brings me to the real focus of this trivia site.
I'm going to try to get all my trivia over here as fast as I can. In the meantime, feel free to dive in and either get smarter or get stupider from this pointless, yet addictive trivia. (I know stupider isn't not a word, but it beats "dumber" I think.) Whichever it is, I think you'll find that this stuff sticks with you and even enriches your life to some extent. Like just the other day I was talking to somebody trying to fix something using WD-40 (the spray lubricant) and I said: "did you know that stands for water displacement, fortieth attempt?" And there was that moment of pause, that sparkle of enlightenment. My point is that, believe it or not, knowing a lot of useless trivia turns you into an excellent conversationalist.
As a parting note, please feel free to add your own trivia to the site. It might not be new, but you never know. The more the merrier, either way. Again, feel free to check out the trivia main site at AquariumUniverse.com to digest the full 1600+ trivia factoid archive if you find you can't satisfy your random trivia addiction while I'm building this blog.
Have fun trivia addicts!
- 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.
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