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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!

  • 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.



For lots more worthless trivia, see the freebies corner at here.

 

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