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!
- 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.
Don't forget to check out this site's freebies section for the complete archive of over 1600 useless trivia tidbits. Prepare to spend lots of time. It's addictive!!!!
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