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!
- Adolf Hitler's mom contemplated abortion before being disuaded by her doctor.
- An elephant can sniff water up to 3 miles away, while a dog can sniff out the difference between a barrel of water and a barrel of water with a tablespoon of salt in it.
- A raisin placed in champagne will sink and float from bottom to top over and over.
- Though a person would be hard-pressed to get them to admit it, fifteen out of one hundred of people secretly chew their toe nails.
- Dismas and Gestas were the two thieves crucified with Jesus of Nazareth.
- At top speed, a dolphin can travel thirty-five miles in one hour.
- As anyone who's seen Fight Club knows, the orginal method of making soap was by boiling fat and mixing it with lye.
- In medieval castles, the staircases spiraled right instead of left as they went up,. This was a defensive strategy designed for right-handed knights who could fend off attackers easier as they climbed the stairs.
- A crocodile might be able to regrow its teeth, but it can't stick out its tongue.
- When an onion is sliced, a chemical reaction occurs among the enzymes in the onion cells, creating a volatile gas. This gas finds the water in a person's eyes and mixes to create sulfuric acid, which "infects" the eyes and forces them to react by crying.
- The pyramids of Egypt weren't constructed from cut blocks. They were poured intp place using pummeled limestone and a mysterious polymer--a kind of earthly cement that was impressive even by today's standards. Archaeologists believe that a giant pyramid took twenty years and 14,000 plus laborers to complete.
- Some dolphins can hold their breath for half an hour.
- When a person attempts to place a familiar face, it is the right side of their brain doing the work.
- The might of a hurricane is so strong that in ten minutes it expends more energy than the entire world's atomic weapons put together.
- The average life span of a MLB baseball is 5-7 pitches. Anywhere from 70 to 180 balls are used during a nine-inning interval.
- Snails can sleep for 3 years without food.
- Stockhold, the Scandinavian capital, is constructed on 9 different islands joined together by bridges.
- Clarence Darrow, the inventor of the Monopoly game, tried to sell it to Parker Bros but was shot down because of 52 supposed 'fundamental playing errors'. After going out on his own and becoming an instant hit, Parker Bros quickly came around.
- Chewing gum can live up to 9,000 years; that's how old the oldest piece on record is.
- In addition to swimming 35 mph, dolphins can swim down to 650 feet beneath the ocean's surface and still survive the pressure.
- A dog first went to space, while a sheep, a rooster and a duck caught their ride in a hot air balloon.
- Beneath the dome on Monticello (Thomas Jefferson's mountaintop Virginia home) lurks a billiards room, which were illegal in Virginia in Jefferson's day.
- The 'Hundred Years War' lasted 100 years (plus sixteen more)
- In the Andes mountains, time is commonly kept by the length of time it takes to smoke a cigarette.
- In the English language, just two words end in "mt". They are dreamt and undreamt. (Undreamt is defined as unimaginable)
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Here's a little trivia for you:
Brain surgery is done without anesthetic because the brain itself has no pain receptors
I wrote a whole article on my blog about it you can check it out here http://bowlofknowledge.blogspot.com/2011/07/pain-in-brain.html
Moonman said...
August 11, 2011 at 10:12 PM