Total Trivia

[CCaprice]

When a lioness comes into heat she demands 4 days of constant sex, mating with the male up to 50 times a day. And people wonder why lions seem to always be sleeping. They bloody well need it.

ROAR!!!!

 

[CCaprice]

A healthy individual releases 3.5 ounces of gas in a single flatulent emission (that's about 17 ounces a day).

 

[CCaprice]

A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.

A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

In Minnesota, it is illegal for any man to have sexual intercourse with a live fish.

Now if I was to have sex with a fish it would have to be the whole fish, it is also reputed that the female sexual organ does sometimes smell of the aforesaid animal. I would like to state here and now before the jury that I am totally innocent of all the charges, though I do possess a certain toy that is shaped like a dolphin

 

[CCaprice]

The little lump of flesh just forward of your ear canal, right next to your temple, is called a tragus.

 

[CCaprice]

The only bone in the human body not connected to another is the hyoid, a V-shaped bone located at the base of the tongue between the mandible and the voice box. Its function is to support the tongue and its muscles.

 

[luv1]

A blue whales throat is the same diameter as it's bellybutton which is the size of a side plate meaning the largest thing it can swollow is a grapefruit.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The Tan Hill Inn, isolated on a forlorn chunk of the northern Pennines, has traditionally been accepted as the highest pub in England at 1732ft/528m. But its supremacy has been challenged by the Cat and Fiddle Inn, situated on a windy ridge astride the Cheshire / Derbyshire border in the west of the Peak District.

Traditionally, the Cat and Fiddle's height has been given as 1690ft/515m, making it the second highest pub in England. But last year the new landlord decided to ask some scientific boffins to give him a precise, satellite-based reading - and the Cat and Fiddle came out at 1772ft/540m, making it now officially the highest pub in England.

 

[CCaprice]

The sound of a snore can be almost as loud as the noise of a pneumatic drill (up to 69 decibels).

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Marlene Dietrich, claimed that the only thing that could lull her to sleep was a sardine-and-onion sandwich on rye.

 

[CCaprice]

Marlene Dietrich, claimed that the only thing that could lull her to sleep was a sardine-and-onion sandwich on rye.

Yeeech. The smell would keep me awake!

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Yeeech. The smell would keep me awake!

Looks like it's that fish thing again LOL

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Amy Lowell, (poet) upon staying in hotels would hire 5 rooms - one for sleeping in, while the others above, below, and on either side, of her room empty and guaranteed to be quiet.

 

[CCaprice]

Amy Lowell, (poet) upon staying in hotels would hire 5 rooms - one for sleeping in, while the others above, below, and on either side, of her room empty and guaranteed to be quiet.

What a great idea!! I wish that I could do that

 

[CCaprice]

Women burn fat more slowly than men, by a rate of about 50 calories a day. And yet, women's hearts beat faster than men's.

Go figure!

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

What a great idea!! I wish that I could do that

Knowing my luck the extractor fans and the generator will be right outside my window

 

[CCaprice]

Knowing my luck the extractor fans and the generator will be right outside my window

I've experienced something along those lines. It was NOT fun!

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

I've experienced something along those lines. It was NOT fun!

Been there, got the t-shirt too hun

 

[CCaprice]

In 1799 Count de Grisley was the first magician to perform the trick of sawing a woman in half.

The name says it all

 

[CCaprice]

You're never too old...

Annie Taylor was the first woman to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel in 1901. She was 64 years-old at the time.

 

[fire_breeze]

Paul Cezanne had a parrot who he taught to say, "Cezanne is a great painter."

 

[fire_breeze]

I love chocolate, but this....?


First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt ate three chocolate-covered garlic balls every morning. Her doctor suggested this to improve her memory.


Ewww.

 

[fire_breeze]

Mao Zedong, like many Chinese of his time, refused to brush his teeth. Instead, he rinsed his mouth with tea and chewed the leaves. Why brush? "Does a tiger brush his teeth?" argued Mao. As you can imagine, his teeth were green. Chairman Mao also loved to chain-smoke English cigarettes, when his doctor asked him to cut down, he explained that "smoking is also a form of deep-breathing exercise, don't you think?"

He does have a point...

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Some coincidences and incidents in life are just so bizarre it beggars belief!
However such strange coincidences do occur, but still you cannot help but shake your head and wonder.

One such example is that of the ship The Mermaid.

In 1829, The Mermaid was 4 days out from Sydney Harbour, Australia when an intense storm struck. Between high winds and heavy rains, the ship was finally dumped onto a reef where it began breaking apart. The crew managed to swim towards a rocky outcrop where they were rescued three days later by the crew of another passing vessel, the Swiftsure


The MermaidThe Swiftsure then encountered an extremely strong current that the crew were unable to counter. The ship was therefore swept on to rocks and also wrecked. The crew of The Mermaid found themselves abandoning ship for a second time.

Eight hours later the schooner Governor Ready already carrying thirty-two people and a full cargo of timber saw their plight and was able to squeeze the survivors from both the Mermaid and Swiftsure on board.

Three hours later, Governor Ready caught fire! The fire spread rapidly thanks to all the added timber on board. The ship was abandoned once more with the aid of longboats.

The Comet, a government ship then appeared unexpectedly, and all were rescued....again!

The crew of the Comet heard the story and considered that the crew of The Mermaid were in fact jinxed, but having passed three shipwrecks without trouble, they decided that good luck was on their side.

But just 5 days later a sudden squall sprang up. With her mast lost, sails in tatters, and rudder gone, the crew of the Comet took to their longboats, abandoning the jinxed crewmen to their own resources.

Clinging to broken up pieces of the ship, the survivors weary and having to fight off sharks were again picked up from their soggy situation by the crew of the Jupiter,

Just 12 hours later, yes, you guessed it, the Jupiter sank!

All were eventually picked up by another ship, The City of Leeds.

Four days later, the City Of Leeds, docked in Sydney Harbour!

But there was one final coincidence to come. On board one of the final vessels, the Jupiter was an elderly lady from Yorkshire, Sarah Richey, who had come to Australia to search for her son Peter who had been missing for over fifteen years. As it turned out, Peter was one of the original crew of the Mermaid.

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j160/Gaia_Lorraine/the-mermaid.jpg

 

[fire_breeze]

Some coincidences and incidents in life are just so bizarre it beggars belief!
However such strange coincidences do occur, but still you cannot help but shake your head and wonder.

One such example is that of the ship The Mermaid.

In 1829, The Mermaid was 4 days out from Sydney Harbour, Australia when an intense storm struck. Between high winds and heavy rains, the ship was finally dumped onto a reef where it began breaking apart. The crew managed to swim towards a rocky outcrop where they were rescued three days later by the crew of another passing vessel, the Swiftsure


The MermaidThe Swiftsure then encountered an extremely strong current that the crew were unable to counter. The ship was therefore swept on to rocks and also wrecked. The crew of The Mermaid found themselves abandoning ship for a second time.

Eight hours later the schooner Governor Ready already carrying thirty-two people and a full cargo of timber saw their plight and was able to squeeze the survivors from both the Mermaid and Swiftsure on board.

Three hours later, Governor Ready caught fire! The fire spread rapidly thanks to all the added timber on board. The ship was abandoned once more with the aid of longboats.

The Comet, a government ship then appeared unexpectedly, and all were rescued....again!

The crew of the Comet heard the story and considered that the crew of The Mermaid were in fact jinxed, but having passed three shipwrecks without trouble, they decided that good luck was on their side.

But just 5 days later a sudden squall sprang up. With her mast lost, sails in tatters, and rudder gone, the crew of the Comet took to their longboats, abandoning the jinxed crewmen to their own resources.

Clinging to broken up pieces of the ship, the survivors weary and having to fight off sharks were again picked up from their soggy situation by the crew of the Jupiter,

Just 12 hours later, yes, you guessed it, the Jupiter sank!

All were eventually picked up by another ship, The City of Leeds.

Four days later, the City Of Leeds, docked in Sydney Harbour!

But there was one final coincidence to come. On board one of the final vessels, the Jupiter was an elderly lady from Yorkshire, Sarah Richey, who had come to Australia to search for her son Peter who had been missing for over fifteen years. As it turned out, Peter was one of the original crew of the Mermaid.

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j160/Gaia_Lorraine/the-mermaid.jpg

Wow... talk about a bad month!