'Useless' trivia thread

[fixxlevy]

bats always turn left when they leave the cave, all polar bears are left handed, a fridge hums along at 20db, most toilets flush in e minor, sound travels at 330 metres per second, left handers predominantly use the right hand side of the brain, as opposed to right handers who employ mostly the left, Richard Nixon WAS in Texas the day Kennedy was killed, Greedo is actually played by a woman (Dianne Sadeley Way), the number of the garbage masher in 4 is actually Harrison Ford's social security number, Liam Gallagher has 6 toes on each foot

[Astrodomine]

Brilliant bloody brilliant
it is the male sea horse who gives birth to the young
there is a tetra who lays its eggs out of the water by jumping up copulating in mid air and laying eggs on the underside of leaves
the only mammal born with horns is the Giraffe
A polar bear can smell a human upto 30 miles away
and i can fit a british pint glass rim inside my mouth!!!!

[Hicks]

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet. A pigs orgasm last for 30 minutes. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. On average people fear spiders more than they do death. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath. Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie. You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. Polar bears are left handed. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds. The flea can jump 350 times its body length, It's like a human jumping the length of a football field. A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death. The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off. Some lions mate over 50 times a day. Butterflies taste with their feet. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. A cat's urine glows under a black light. An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain. Starfish don't have brains.

[Hicks]

In Kentucky it is illegal for a woman to appear in a bathing suit on the highway unless she is escorted by at least 2 police officers; armed with a club; or lighter than 90 pounds or heavier than 200 pounds.
In Neward, NJ it is illegal to sell ice cream after 6pm unless the customer has a note from their doctor.
In Cleaveland, Ohio women are forbidden to wear patent leather shoes because men can see their undies in the reflection.

[Astrodomine]

In Shropshire England, any welshman caught within the town walls can be shot with an arrow from a bow.
(This law was only revoked in the 1990s !!!)

[fixxlevy]

Yeah, it's the same in Edinburgh: if you see someone from Newcastle within the Flodden Wall, you can shoot them with a bow and arrow, which seems pretty fair to me, frankly.

[englar]

if you sneeze more than 5 times in a row, you have an orgasm

[fixxlevy]

That's not actually the case babe. I had a cold recently and AT NO TIME did I leave my boiling hot manseeds in my Calvins. Maybe it's a 'lady thing'.

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[englar]

but did you sneeze 5 times in a row, non stop?

probably not
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[fixxlevy]

Oh yes. Susie who sits next to me sprayed herself with Impulse Incense when I had a pretty drippy nose already and that was it. Mass hilarity amongst the rest of the office, a pretty wet screen for Marticus.

Ha. Ha.


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[Shane G.]

In England, in the 1920s, I believe, a chicken's head was cut off in a restaurant kitchen to make a chicken dinner. The chicken was live, and as soon as its head got cut off, it got up and began to run around.

Indeed, the chicken was named 'Biddy' and lived for two weeks. It would try to preen its feathers and would sometimes try to sing - without any kind of head at all.

It died when a scab formed over its windpipe, suffocating him.

[stratman]

BRIAN JONES of The ROLLING STONES plays sax on The BEATLES' single "Baby You're a Rich Man".

Superman's real parents were Jor-El and Lara who died when the planet KRYPTON was destroyed.

The band "PEARL JAM" was named for lead singer Eddie Vedder's grandmother, PEARL, and the hallucinogenic PRESERVES (JAM) she made from peyote.

On July 4, 1979, DONALD DUCK presented Teresa Salcedo the first birth certificate ever given for being born in DISNEYLAND.

Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison all died at the age of 27.

The Kings in a deck of cards are named: Alexander, Caesar, Charles and David.

NIPPER the RCA dog was a Fox Terrier.

JIMI HENDRIX was the opening act for the MONKEES on their first tour.

[Shane G.]

One man both hired the Hell's Angels to provide security at Altamont, and introduced Ron Geesin to Pink Floyd, resulting in Atom Heart Mother as we know it. I wonder if he knows how much he changed rock music.

And Stratters: Brian Jones played sax on 'You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)'. I only know this from being the Beatles fanatic I am.

[stratman]

Brian Jones doesn't exactly pop into your mind when you think of great musicians, but he was damned versatile:

He could play the Guitar (+Slide, bass & lap steel), Cello, violin, harp, sitar, Harmonica, Clarinet, saxophone, oboe, piano, clavioline and drums.

[Sydney]

It is impossible to lick your elbow
On old fashioned fans, no matter what speed they're on it'll still take em 20 seconds to stop
Central park has a total of eight kilometres of park benches
johnny depp learned the spanish accent he used in Don Juan DeMarco by watching reruns of Fantasy Island
Paul Reiser played the piano in the theme of Mad about You
After the “Popeye” comic strip started in 1931, spinach consumption went up by thirty-three percent in the United States.
The average person spends two weeks of their life kissing.
Approximately 150 people are killed each year by coconuts.
There were 43,687 toilet related accidents in the United States in 1996.
75% of people wash from top to bottom in the shower

cheers