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 standard porcupine has 30,000 quills.
- If a person is afraid of the number thirteen, they suffer from triskaidekaphobia.
- The Vatican is the biggest one-person home in the world.
- When light leaves the sun, 8.5 minutes pass before it reaches Earth.
- Six hundred soda drinks are consumed by the normal American/Canadian.
- "Admiral" means "lord of the sea" in Arabic. It comes from the phrase" amir al bahr".
- The tiger's fur is striped, and so is its skin.
- The sport that uses the largest field is polo..
- A standard deck of cards contains 87 diamonds and 42 eyes.
- The most popular flavor of ice cream in North America is vanilla.
- The only mammal with four knees is the elephant. It is also the only mammal that cannot jump.
- The rule of thumb orginates with the fact that the middle joint on a man's thumb is about an inch wide.
- Carpenters us it as a cursory guide. Many also believe the rule comes from an old Irish law that a man couldn't beat his wife with a branch thicker than his thumb. The debate continues.
- Of all the English words, "set" has the most definitions.
- "Nice guys finish last" was coined by Dodger's legendary coach Leo Durocher, though historians believe he never actually put those four words together in that exact order.
- The short-lived dragonfly's favorite snack is the mosquito.
- Blonde facial hair grows faster than darker hair.
- A roman numeral's value is increased a thousand times by placing a line above it.
- The deepest, oldest and biggest lake by volume in the world is Lake Bakail in southern Siberia.
- Fewer people have died at the age of 10 than at any other age.
- The average sleeper swallows eight spiders in a lifetime at night. The average person also consumes about a pound of insects in a lifetime.
- The "S" in Harry S. Truman was conjured out of thin air. He never had a middle name, instead used the initial, as was common in southern states.
- Adolf Hitler was Time's man of the year in 1938.
- Frozen milk on a stick is popular in Siberia.
- Toilet paper was first marketed as "Gayetty's Medicated Paper".
- Tooth enamel is almost as hard as rock. It is the hardest thing in the human body.
Additional useless trivia can be found here.
Labels: factoids, interesting facts, odd facts, random info, useless trivia
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