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!
- 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.
Tons more useless trivia can be found in the freebies section here.
Labels: dumb trivia, pointless facts, stupid information
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