Total Trivia

[fire_breeze]

It has never rained in Calama (a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile).

 

[mrtnmoon]

it never rains in southern caifornia, either.

sorry.... I tend to relate everything to songs.

 

[fire_breeze]

it never rains in southern caifornia, either.

sorry.... I tend to relate everything to songs.

That's okay!

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

sorry.... I tend to relate everything to songs.

Some Beatles Trivia...

Paul McCartney's song 'Yesterday' was recently voted the most popular song of the century by a BBC poll, but the music was written before the lyrics. Paul used the working words 'scrambled eggs' before coming up with 'yesterday' while composing this song.

Paul McCartney wrote the song Lovely Rita, Meter Maid for the album Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band after getting a parking ticket from a female warden in Abbey Road.

The Beatles, with Pete Best on drums, made the group's TV debut performing Roy Orbison's 'Dream Baby' on the BBC show 'Teenager's Turn' in 1962.

'Hey Jude' was written by Paul in his car. Paul was on his way to visit Julian, John Lennon's son, who was disturbed by his parents' divorce. Paul wrote this song to cheer him up.

The Beatles got their name from a line in the movie 'The Wild Ones'. Lee Marvin's character said that the motorcycle gang wanted Marlon Brando's character back, even the beetles (he was referring to the women in the gang). They changed the 'ee' to 'ea' so it was like the musical term 'beat'.

The song "Dear Prudence" was written about Mia Farrow's sister, Prudence, when she wouldn't come out and play with Mia and the Beatles at a religious retreat in India.

In a contest held by Mersyside Newspaper to see who was the biggest band in Liverpool, 1962, one of the main reasons that The Beatles won was because they called in posing as different people voting for themselves.

'We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.'
Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.

 

[sno_22]

Trivia about chocolate

A 1.5 oz. milk chocolate bar has only 220 calories.
A 1.75 oz. serving of potato chips has 230 calories.

A recent study indicates when men crave food, they tend to crave fat and salt. When women crave food, they tend to desire chocolate.

American and Russian space flights have always included chocolate.

American chocolate manufacturers use about 1.5 billion pounds of milk -- only surpassed by the cheese and ice cream industries.

Americans consumed over 3.1 billion pounds of chocolate in 2001, which is almost half of the total world's production.

Aztec emperor Montezuma drank 50 golden goblets of hot chocolate every day. It was thick, dyed red and flavored with chili peppers.

Bittersweet chocolate is what is usually called for in baking. It contains more chocolate liquor (at least 35%) and less sugar than sweet chocolate. Semisweet chocolate contains 15% - 35% chocolate liquor.

Caffeine: there are 100 to 150 milligrams of caffeine in an eight-ounce cup of brewed coffee, 10 milligrams in a six-ounce cup of cocoa, 5 to 10 milligrams in one ounce of bittersweet chocolate, and 5 milligrams in one ounce of milk chocolate.

Chocolate manufacturers currently use 40 percent of the world's almonds and 20 percent of the world's peanuts.

Chocolate syrup was used for blood in the famous 45 second shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's movie, Psycho, which actually took 7 days to shoot.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Trivia about chocolate

When women crave food, they tend to desire chocolate.

Previously posted this may explain why...

The same chemical responsible for the ecstatic highs of love and sexual attraction, phenylethylamine, is also found in chocolate.

 

[fire_breeze]

Trivia about chocolate

A 1.5 oz. milk chocolate bar has only 220 calories.
A 1.75 oz. serving of potato chips has 230 calories.

A recent study indicates when men crave food, they tend to crave fat and salt. When women crave food, they tend to desire chocolate.

American and Russian space flights have always included chocolate.

American chocolate manufacturers use about 1.5 billion pounds of milk -- only surpassed by the cheese and ice cream industries.

Americans consumed over 3.1 billion pounds of chocolate in 2001, which is almost half of the total world's production.

Aztec emperor Montezuma drank 50 golden goblets of hot chocolate every day. It was thick, dyed red and flavored with chili peppers.

Bittersweet chocolate is what is usually called for in baking. It contains more chocolate liquor (at least 35%) and less sugar than sweet chocolate. Semisweet chocolate contains 15% - 35% chocolate liquor.

Caffeine: there are 100 to 150 milligrams of caffeine in an eight-ounce cup of brewed coffee, 10 milligrams in a six-ounce cup of cocoa, 5 to 10 milligrams in one ounce of bittersweet chocolate, and 5 milligrams in one ounce of milk chocolate.

Chocolate manufacturers currently use 40 percent of the world's almonds and 20 percent of the world's peanuts.

Chocolate syrup was used for blood in the famous 45 second shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's movie, Psycho, which actually took 7 days to shoot.

Great! Now I want more chocolate!

 

[sno_22]

Great! Now I want more chocolate!

Ask and ye shall receive..more chocolate.....trivia

Chocolate Timeline:
1824: John Cadbury, an English Quaker, begins roasting and grinding chocolate beans to sell in his tea and coffee shop. In 1842 Cadbury's Chocolate Company in England creates the first chocolate bar.
1875: A Swiss chocolate maker, Daniel Peter, mixes Henri Nestle's con- densed milk with chocolate and the two men found a company to manufacture the first milk chocolate.
1894: Milton Hershey adds a line of chocolate to his caramel manufacturing business. Soon he invents the Hershey Bar by experimenting with milk chocolate. Hershey's Cocoa appears next.
1896: Leonard Hershfield invents the Tootsie Roll, named after his daughter.
1897: Brownies are first mentioned in print, listed for sale in the Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalogue.
About 1900: A machine called the enrober is invented to replace the task of hand-dipping chocolate.
1930: Franklin Mars invents the Snickers Bar.
1939: Nestle introduces semisweet chocolate morsels.
1940: The Mars company invents M&M's for soldiers going to World War II.

 

[Pure_Evil666]

The average length of a penis is only .9 of an inch longer than the average girth. 5.9 inches for the length and 5.0 inches for the girth.

The average depth of a females vagina is only 3 inches if they havent had kids.(it does extend when the penis enters,just incase you where confused lol)

 

[sno_22]

The term "white chocolate" is a misnomer. Under Fedaral Standards of Identity, real chocolate must contain chocolate liquor. "White" chocolate contains no chocolate liquor.



I KNEW there was a good reason to hate white chocolate!!!!

 

[fire_breeze]

Ask and ye shall receive..more chocolate.....trivia

Chocolate Timeline:
1824: John Cadbury, an English Quaker, begins roasting and grinding chocolate beans to sell in his tea and coffee shop. In 1842 Cadbury's Chocolate Company in England creates the first chocolate bar.
1875: A Swiss chocolate maker, Daniel Peter, mixes Henri Nestle's con- densed milk with chocolate and the two men found a company to manufacture the first milk chocolate.
1894: Milton Hershey adds a line of chocolate to his caramel manufacturing business. Soon he invents the Hershey Bar by experimenting with milk chocolate. Hershey's Cocoa appears next.
1896: Leonard Hershfield invents the Tootsie Roll, named after his daughter.
1897: Brownies are first mentioned in print, listed for sale in the Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalogue.
About 1900: A machine called the enrober is invented to replace the task of hand-dipping chocolate.
1930: Franklin Mars invents the Snickers Bar.
1939: Nestle introduces semisweet chocolate morsels.
1940: The Mars company invents M&M's for soldiers going to World War II.

*sigh* TEASE!!!

And whatever I ask, I shall receive?


And all I can add is

The Aztecs used to prepare a drink for the gods made up of ground cocao bean paste mixed with spices and corn

 

[fire_breeze]

Cocoa beans were used as currency by the Mayan and Aztec civilizations over 1400 years ago.


Huh... money did grow on trees!

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The biggest chocolate sculpture ever made was a 4,484 lb, 10 foot high Easter egg, constructed in Melbourne, Australia.

The world’s largest box of chocolates weighed in at 2,002 lbs. It was made in Chicago, USA, and contained Frango mints.

In 1991, a model ship was made out of chocolate in Barcelona, Spain. It measured 42.5 feet x 28 feet x 8 feet.

The largest chocolate ever made was a chocolate marzipan. It was made in the Netherlands over a 3-day period and weighed 4,078 lbs

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

A man found a bottle on the beach. He opened it and out popped a genie, who gave the man three wishes. The man wished for a million dollars, and poof! There was a million dollars. Then he wished for a convertible, and poof! There was a convertible. And then, he wished he could be irresistible to all women... Poof! He turned into a box of chocolates.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

"Never believe in anything until it has been officially denied."
- Eighteenth century German leader Otto von Bismarck

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The earliest recorded sanitary laws concerning disposal of human waste also are attributed to Moses and his teachings in the Old Testament. Circa 1500 B.C, his people are instructed to dispose of their waste away from the camp, and to use a spade to turn the remains under the earth or sand.

 

[CCaprice]

The history about the voice over guy from the movies:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QPMvj_xejg&feature=related

 

[fire_breeze]

Don't know if this is true or not, but...

A lawyer defending a man accused of burglary tried this creative defense: "My client merely inserted his arm into the window and removed a few trifling articles. His arm is not himself, and I fail to see how you can punish the whole individual for an offense committed by his limb." "Well put," the judge replied. "Using your logic, I sentence the defendant's arm to one year's imprisonment. He can accompany it or not, as he chooses." The defendant smiled. With his lawyer's assistance he detached his artificial limb, laid it on the bench, and walked out.

 

[fire_breeze]

Organized crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United States' national income.

 

[fire_breeze]

Tyson Mitchell of Iowa City, Iowa walked into the police station, for some reason that nobody understands, and asked the dispatcher if he was wanted for any crimes. He was and was also arrested, on the spot. But there's more! The police also found several bags of cocaine in his pocket.

Another reason why not to take drugs

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

When and where was toilet paper first invented?

*China…AD 1391 - The Bureau of Imperial Supplies began producing 720,000 sheets of toilet paper a year, each sheet measuring two feet by three feet. For use by the Emperors.
*USA…1857 - New Yorker Joseph C. Gayetty produced the first packaged bathroom tissue in the United States in 1857. The Gayetty Firm from New Jersey produced the first toilet paper named "The Therapeutic Paper". It contained an abundance of aloe, a curative addition. The company sold it in packs of 500 sheets for fifty cents, and Joseph Gayetty had his name printed on each sheet!
*USA…1890 - The Scott Paper Company is the first company to manufacture tissue on a roll, specifically for the use of toilet paper but were faced with the consumers' resistance toward the "unmentionable" product.

What the hell did they use before?

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Tyson Mitchell of Iowa City, Iowa walked into the police station, for some reason that nobody understands, and asked the dispatcher if he was wanted for any crimes. He was and was also arrested, on the spot. But there's more! The police also found several bags of cocaine in his pocket.

Another reason why not to take drugs

OR another reason for not being honest

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

April 1st....

BBC sparked a big protest in 1980 from the people who protested against the announcement that Big Ben was to have a digital readout to keep up with the modern times. The BBC Japanese service even announced the sale of the clock hands of Big Ben to the first four listeners to contact them.

In the last year of the millennium, BBC Radio 4 startled anybody tuned in to listen its Today program with the new decision of the British Parliament to change the British National anthem from "God Save the Queen" to a Euro Anthem sung in German that used extracts from Beethoven's music. Pupils of a German school in London sang the anthem that was aired. It is said that even the royal family was stunned with the announcement and Prince Charles's office telephoned Radio 4 to ask them for a copy of the new anthem. Though, St. James Palace insisted later that it had not been fooled but was only playing along with the prank.

LOL

 

[drew62]

Tyson Mitchell of Iowa City, Iowa walked into the police station, for some reason that nobody understands, and asked the dispatcher if he was wanted for any crimes. He was and was also arrested, on the spot. But there's more! The police also found several bags of cocaine in his pocket.

Another reason why not to take drugs

Another reason why IOWA stands for Idiots out Wandering Around

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Another reason why IOWA stands for Idiots out Wandering Around

Where the f**k is Iowa anyway?
(An innocent UK lassie)