Total Trivia

[luv1]

What was Cinderellas slippers made from?

Squirrel fur.

Charles Perrault, who wrote the familiar version of the story in the sevevteenth century, misheard the word vair(squirrel fur) in the medieval tale th borrowed and updated for the similar sounding verre(glass).

 

[luv1]

How many senses do we have?

At lease nine. Sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch, thermoception, equilibrioception, nociception and proprioception. But some neurologist do believe we can have up to 21.

 

[luv1]

How would you fly through an asteroid belt?

By the seat of your pants? Not really as it's unlikely that you'd be hit by something. The gap between large asteroids like the ones you see in the sci fi movies are millions of Km apart. In fact you could just fall asleep at the flight stick and let the ship fly itself and you'd still more llikely to not hit anything.

 

[_Misty_]

The Praying mantis is the only insect that can stand on one leg.

 

[luv1]

If the male nine banded armadillo was human, his penis would be 4 feet long.

 

[desideratum]

A very warm welcome desideratum

Thankyou for the warm welcome, I am really enjoying your thread

Mine for today is; The 2 highest IQ's ever recorded (on a standard test) both belong to women.

 

[smotherman]

A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!

 

[CCaprice]

What was Cinderellas slippers made from?

Squirrel fur.

Charles Perrault, who wrote the familiar version of the story in the sevevteenth century, misheard the word vair(squirrel fur) in the medieval tale th borrowed and updated for the similar sounding verre(glass).

Proof that facts have been distorted long before the Internet came around, it's just a faster process now!

 

[CCaprice]

If the male nine banded armadillo was human, his penis would be 4 feet long.

 

[smotherman]

More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones!

 

[luv1]

Well your going to love this one then. If a male fruit fly was a human, it's testicals would be bigger then it's head.

 

[luv1]

Here's another interesting animal fact. The young female fossa starts to grow a penis. Actually, it's a big clitoris, but it has a bone in it and is covered in the same vicious looking backward facing spines as the male appendage. They leak the bright orange discharge of a sexually mature adult male and develop genital bumps that look like testes. Oddly still, whenthey reach maturity at four years old, all this stops and the clitoris shrinks back to normal size. No one knows why. But perhaps it's to confuse the male till they are mature enough to mate.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Well your going to love this one then. If a male fruit fly was a human, it's testicals would be bigger then it's head.

I've heard of a "Dick Head" but...

 

[luv1]

I've heard of a "Dick Head" but...

It would make an interesting sight How would he walk? ....Liike John Wayne I suppose

 

[luv1]

Here's another interesting animal quicky I'm knicking from my QI book on animals. Did you know the Woodlouse was used as a cure for stomach upsets as thier shell is made from calcuim carbonate which neutrises the acid in the stomach

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Sir Arthur C Clarke born on December 16, 1917, died March 18, 2008 at the age of 90.

RIP RIP

 

[luv1]

Sir Arthur C Clarke born on December 16, 1917, died March 18, 2008 at the age of 90.

RIP RIP

He was a great man

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The geostationary orbit, named after Arthur C. Clarke, who first described in detail how such an orbit could be used for global communications in an article titled "Extra-Terrestrial Relays – Can Rocket Stations Give Worldwide Radio Coverage?," published in Wireless World in October 1945. Clarke said that many people would consider his concept "too far-fetched to be taken seriously."

 

[CCaprice]

PEEP!

During Easter, Americans buy more than 700 million Marshmallow Peeps, shaped like chicks, as well as Marshmallow Bunnies and Marshmallow Eggs, making them the most popular non-chocolate Easter candy.

As many as 4.2 million Marshmallow Peeps, bunnies, and other shapes can be made each day.

In 1953, it took 27 hours to create a Marshmallow Peep. Today it takes six minutes.

Yellow Peeps are the most popular, followed by pink, lavender, blue, and white.

(I still think chocolate bunnies are better!)

 

[smotherman]

Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate.

 

[CCaprice]

Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate.

*wipes chocolate from lips*

 

[fire_breeze]

Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate.

Hmm... I wonder what that would be worldwide?

 

[MSH2]

It takes takes more energy to eat and digest Celery than you get from it. Also Mushrooms. You could eat mushrooms and celery and starve to death

 

[fire_breeze]

The mythical Scottish town of Brigadoon appears for one day every 100 years.

 

[fire_breeze]

It takes takes more energy to eat and digest Celery than you get from it. Also Mushrooms. You could eat mushrooms and celery and starve to death

Perfect diet food...