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!
- "Uncopyrightable" is the only fifteen-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter .
- Most U.S. automobile horns honk in the "F" key.
- Harry Houdini once proclaimed that he could figure out any trick if it was shown to him three times in a row. The only magician to challenge him and win was Vernon in Chicago who performed the old 'Ambitious Card' trick 8 times in a row. Houdini was baffled.
- Francis Bacon gave his life trying to discover a superior way to serve food. He came down with pneumonia after trying to pack a live chicken with snow.
- The classic 'Gone with the wind' was orginally called 'Ba! Ba! Black sheep'.
- Gainesville, Georgia is the chicken capital of the world. It is against the law to eat the bird with a fork.
- It is impossible to fold any piece of paper in half more than seven times consecutively.
- If a canary is seen singing, it has to be a male; only the males can sing.
- A hamburger at McDonalds cost 15 cents in 1963,
- On Tuesday, November 9th, 1965, at exactly 5:15 p.m. and 11 seconds, the lights went out (infamous Northeast Blackouts of 1965).
- Since the 1950s, the average language of an eighth grader has steadily declined from 25,000 words to only 10,000 (and falling still).
- In 1714 after George I was crowned King of England, he placed his wife under house arrest for thirty-two years.
- The speediest fish in the world is the cosmopolitan sailfish, clocking in at about 67.7 mph (109km ph).
- The Earth is pear shaped, the North Pole radius being 44mm longer than the South Pole radius.
- For its size and proportions, the earth is as smooth as a bowling ball.
- 1 in every 4 Americans has been on tv.
- By the numbers, a human breathes approximately 23,000 times per day.
- Between plane crashes and donkeys, the latter claim more lives annually.
- The heart is so powerful that it circulates our entire blood supply 7 to 8 times per minute.
- After the sun, Proxima Centauri is the closest star to Earth that we know of. By close, this means 4.2 light years.
- A normal housecat has 32 muscles per ear.
- If a person will be there in a "jiffy", they will be there in one hundred of a second.
- If a crocodile loses teeth, they grow back.
- Shakespeare was thought to be 46 years old when the King James Version of the bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the beginning word is "shake" and the 46th word from the final word is "spear."
- The words "testify" and "testimony" are widely regarded by historians to come from ancient Rome when Roman men would place their right hand on their testicles prior to speaking before the courts. Roman law held that no man could bear witness who didn't have both testes.
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