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 term corduroy is French. It means "cloth of the king".
- The typical American marriage ends after about 9.4 years.
- The Gatorade sports drink was developed by five people at the University of Florida in 1965. Its namesake is derived from the school's nickname, the gators.
- If a female ferret can't find a mate when its in heat, it will die.
- Playing tennis in the roads of Cambridge is against the law.
- Among the many firsts by the Chinese, was the use of toilet paper.
- The urine of a cat glows beneath a blacklight.
- Every day, ninety-nine U.S. families enter into the official poverty bracket.
- Chances are, if a person has high cholesterol, they've had a sphygmomanometer used on them: the simple device that tabulates blood pressure.
- The electric chair was first conjured by a dental practitioner.
- The shortest complete sentence in the bigle is "I Am".
- One can be arrested for swimming in Central Park, NY. It's illegal.
- An active mole can dig a tunnel spanning 300 feet in only one evening.
- The term "checkmate" in chess is from the Persian words "shah mat". It is apt, as it means "the king is dead".
- No single word exists to identify the back of a person's knee.
- The three largest McDonalds restaurants are (1) largest in area: a 400-seater located off the I-44 Will Rogers Turnpike in Vinita, OK with gift shops and a post office, (2) the McDonalds in Bejing, China (28,000 square feet, two stories, seats 700, employs 1,000), and the newest and now largest McDonald's and Playplace in Orlando, Florida, (it's the one that looks like a giant back of fries, also contains 25,000 feet of twisting tubes for kids, a 60+ game arcade, and a 60 foot kiddie slide).
- Celery actually contains less calories than those expended eating and digesting it.
- The first book printed in England was about the game of chess.
- Thanks to the absense of a backbone, a 70 lb octopus can ooze through an opening no wider than a silver dollar..
- Despite begin called a pigskin, it takes three thousand cows worth of leather per year to make enough NFL footbballs to last the year--no pigs.
- Until someone finds another one, "the sixth sick sheikh's sixth sheep's sick" is the most difficult tongue twister on record.
- The creature with the biggest eyes on the planet is the giant squid.
- The trademark Google, is actually spelled "googol". This is meant to reflect Google's endeavor to clean up and catalogue the information on the internet.
- The formal growing of commerical oranges in Florida began in 1539. .
- At the foothills of Mt. Fiji in Japan--an area known as the Aokigahara Jukai (The Sea of Trees)--a tourist can visit the number one suicide place in Japan. At last count, 78 bodies had been found there (their ghosts are said to haunt the area, forever cursed). Officials have actually placed signs there warning of the illegality of committing suicide in the forest.
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