Total Trivia

[CCaprice]

Next week sounds good?


More beer tidbit that made laugh so hard that I snorted my beer through my nose:

Beer is made by fermentation cause by bacteria feeding on yeast cells and then defecating. In other words, it's a nice tall glass of bacteria doo-doo.

LOL. Sadly, that applies to everything made with yeast. Disgusting but delicious!

 

[fire_breeze]

LOL. Sadly, that applies to everything made with yeast. Disgusting but delicious!

Ah... yeast based products... food for life. Or is it merely representative of our current state of being?

 

[CCaprice]

Ah... yeast based products... food for life. Or is it merely representative of our current state of being?

I don't know, but I sure love my beer & bread!!

 

[fire_breeze]

I don't know, but I sure love my beer & bread!!

Oh, but it's the the same thing! Bread: solid beer. Beer: liquid bread!

 

[CCaprice]

Oh, but it's the the same thing! Bread: solid beer. Beer: liquid bread!

That's why I love them both!!! Hmmm.... I now have a craving...

 

[fire_breeze]

That's why I love them both!!! Hmmm.... I now have a craving...

C'mon.. indulge!

 

[Daizie]

The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino.

 

[CCaprice]

C'mon.. indulge!

Don't encourage me! I really shouldn't (not right now, anyway)...time to pack it in for the night. See ya

 

[CCaprice]

The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino.

Wow. I had no idea!

 

[fire_breeze]

Don't encourage me! I really shouldn't (not right now, anyway)...time to pack it in for the night. See ya

(and that's why you should! )

 

[CCaprice]

(and that's why you should! )

As if I need help passing out in bed! LOL

 

[Daizie]

Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

 

[steelersfan]

Walt Disney’s family can be traced back to humble French peasants, in Isigny, who migrated to England with William the Conqueror, at which time they added the ‘d’ to their name, to give it more class. This eventually evolved into Disney.

Walt’s parents were married in Florida, but Walt was born in Chicago in 1901.

His first Mickey Mouse film appeared in 1928, and was an instant success. Within two years about 400 million people had seen a Mickey Mouse film. By the time he produced Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, his success was assured.

By the early 1950s he was bored with cartoons and wanted something else to do. His idea of an amusement park was ridiculed, but his hunch was right: from the day the California park opened in 1955 it was a huge success. In 1956 the company’s profits had doubled.

Within two years he was considering the Florida park, as its weather made it an ideal year-round location. It was inland, and therefore safer from hurricanes, and provided he kept his identity a secret, he could buy the land for a song.

He named his project the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow: EPCOT for short, and Walt Disney World opened in October 1971. Disney World is divided into three major segments: the theme parks, the hotels, and Downtown Disney (formerly Disney village).

Celebration, the new town opened to the public in 1996, is seen by some as a fulfillment of Walt’s “experimental prototype of the city of the future.” It is designed to eventually accommodate a population of twenty thousand, has a central business district with restaurants, shops, a movie theater, and other amenities, all built around an attractive little lake.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The earliest recorded case of a man giving up smoking was on April 5, 1679, when Johan Katsu, Sheriff of Turku, Finland, wrote in his diary "I quit smoking tobacco." He died one month later.

Hi Lorraine

Well that just goes to prove my theory... Life is a Bitch

Hi Stryder

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Celebration, the new town opened to the public in 1996, is seen by some as a fulfillment of Walt’s “experimental prototype of the city of the future.” It is designed to eventually accommodate a population of twenty thousand, has a central business district with restaurants, shops, a movie theater, and other amenities, all built around an attractive little lake.

Celebration is just as you describe, the lake is a central focus to the town but is not centrally located. It has been cleverly designed such that the town has a lake frontage. The Italian restaurant we ate in was not cheap (by USA standards) but the food was excellent.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The telephone code for Antarctica is 672.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Vietnam is the world's largest exporter of pepper.

 

[smotherman]

Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey

 

[fire_breeze]

Turkey contains an amino acid called tryptophan, which can cause sleepiness (warm milk also contains tryptophan).

 

[fire_breeze]

More reason to eat chocolate...

Chocolate not only does not promote tooth decay, it might prevent it. According to the American Dental Association, milk chocolate contains ingredients, such as calcium and phosphate, that might modify acid production in the mouth that leads to cavities. Some oils in chocolate might also prevent tooth decay. Chocolate does contain sugar, of course, but these are simple sugars that are less harmful than the complex sugars contained in other foods.

 

[smotherman]

There are more chickens than people in the world.

 

[Daizie]

Nabisco’s “Oreo’s” are the world’s best-selling brand of cookie at a rate of 6 billion sold each year. The first Oreo was sold in 1912.

 

[fire_breeze]

Ice Cream Sundaes were created when it became illegal to sell ice cream with flavored soda on a Sunday in the Evanston, Illinois during the late 19th century. Some traders got round it by serving it with syrup instead, calling it an 'Ice Cream Sunday' and eventually replacing the final 'y' with an 'e' to avoid upsetting religious leaders.

 

[smotherman]

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

 

[fire_breeze]

More on dynamites.

Alfred Nobel used a cellulose adhesive (nitrocellulose) as the chemical binder for nitroglycerin, which he used in his invention of dynamite.