23. Five Jell-O flavors that flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple, and chocolate
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Watering down beer was a capital offense under Hammurabi's Law Code.
1 in every 8000 potassium atoms is a radioactive isotope, and bananas contain so much potassium that eating 600 bananas is equivalent to a chest x-ray.
It is NOT impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. I can and have done it. My eyes did not fall out.
Regarding "Antarctica is the only continent without reptiles or snakes."
Snakes ARE reptiles.
Number 18 is an urban legend.
Ducks quacks don't echo because their quacks exactly duplicate an echo's frequency.
I DO BELIEVE IN FARIES!!
I love u
cups are what shape?(cylinder)
the term "shitty end of the stick" also came from a war. POWs had to go to the bathroom in a hole in the floor and when it got to full they would push it down with a stick, therefor if they handed someone the stick the wrong way they got the "shitty end of the stick"
1. paul Revere made George Washingtons false teeth, which were made out of ivory NOT wood.2. the old superstition not to light 3 cigarettes on 1 match came from ww1. with the first light the enemy spots you, with the second he aims, and with the third he fires.
Toilets flush clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere as opposed to counter-clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere
No matter how hard you pinch the skin on your elbow, it doesn't hurt.
BOB SAGET!
Antarctica is the only continent without reptiles or snakes.
Helen Keller, blind and deaf from an early age, developed her sense of smell
so finely that she could identify friends by their personal odors.
TomTom <no>
The orginal flavor of the twinkie was bannana until a bannana shortage during
World War II
The original flavor of the twinkie was bannana until a bannana shortage during
World War II. Only eight people attanded Thomas Paine's funeral. Pigs can
become alcoholics. The geiographical center of Ohio is Delaware-a town 25
miles north north east of Columbus. When joseph Gayetty invented toilet paper
in 1857, he had his name printed on each sheet. The average caterpillar has
sixteen legs. Gerald Ford's orginal name was Leslie King. Rats can't vomit.
Most people take an average of seven minutes to fall asleep
A few years ago it was established that, contrary to common belief, pinguins
do not tip over backwards when a plane fly over them.
Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy
Why are there Braille bumps on the keypad at the drive-through window at
most banks?
I just wanted to say that the "When it rains you get wet if you live in a
parking lot" is not anonymous. Mike Nesmith of The Monkees said it.
1. Pigs can become alcoholics. 2. A gorilla's penis is 1/3 thesize of a humans.
3. Crocodiles cannot stick out their tongues.
five + two = seven
Chip
more of a question. Who sings the song free my soul I want to get lost in
yur rock and roll and drift away? and what is the name of the song?
1)In all of his portraits William Shakespear is proven to have been wearing
a mask 2)Andrew Lloyd Webber has married at least 2 women named Sarah
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. - William Shakespeare
--- That is what we should be thinking.... much thanks for this site and
info. --- Steve S. from www.saroff.com
Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on
the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy. The skipper's real
name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first
episode on their radio's newscast about the wreck
Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has
about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the
twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize
what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
The phrase "sleep tight" derives from the fact that early mattresses were
filled with straw and held up with rope stretched across the bedframe. A
tight sleep was a comfortable sleep.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated
that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the
cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life."
If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more
like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because
when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all
the books that would occupy the building
Non-dairy creamer is flammable (don't ask how I found that one out!)
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when
the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground
floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten
The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following
sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman
strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he
coughed and hiccoughed.".
The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on
backwards
A sneeze comes out of your nose at 200 mph.
1.You cannot swallow with your mouth open. 2.It is possible to inhale and
exhale simutaneously using both your mouth and your nose 3.You cannot put
your elbow in your ear 4.You cannot put your elbow in my ear either hahaha,
It truly is a wonderful life
all animals can be tamed exept the crocodile
How much wood could a wood chuck chuck
If a woman in a forest complains. Does anyone care?
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
It takes one tree to make 1 million matches, but it only takes one match
to destroy 1 million trees.
Chicago is the "Windy City" because of politicians, not the weather.
It's funny how the person who handles our money in Real Estate is called
a 'broker'...
The termite can digest wood for only the first 6 months of its lifespan.
How come they call them apartments, when their all together?
1.Cows dont sleep standing up. 2 rule of thumb came from people testing the
temperature of there wine with their thumb.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple , but only God can count the apples
in a seed !
How come they sterilize the needle to preform leathel injection?
No matter how much alcohol a penguin drinks, it will never get drunk. (look
it up, its true!)
When the grass keeps growing,animals keep eating
Not 1 person I know doesn't know elephants are the only mamals that can't
jump.I think that the useless trivia was in the right place.
1. At ten-foot tall, Tinky Winky towers three feet over Barney. 2. Carnivorous
mammals have eyes on the front of their heads so they can HUNT. Vegetarian
mammals have eyes on the sides of their heads so they can ESCAPE. 3. Hard
bolied eggs spin. Raw eggs do not.
well, you can take #26 off your trivia list as the st. louis rams play in
a dome stadium and won the super bowl.
well, you can take #26 off your trivia list as st. louis rams play home games
in a dome stadium and won the super bowl.
The man who invent the flush toilet was called Thomas Crapper hence the word
crap.
Did you know that cows sleep standing up?
Penguins can jump 6ft in the air
1. Ringworm is contagious. An anonymous surfer says: Most dictionaries don't contain "light bulb". If I said that, I'd want to remain anonymous, too!
Another from the land of anonymous:
Did you know that scorekeepers in Boston's "Fenway Park" actually have to
peep through little holes in the green monster just too see the game? God
guys, buy a TV!
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