Total Trivia

[CCaprice]

Thinking about ships....vacations....cruises:

The colors of each Disney cruise ship are Mickey's colors: red, yellow and dark blue.

There are approximately 1,850 telephones aboard each ship.

The total potable water storage capability is 82,000 gallons.

Each Disney cruise ship can distill 1,200 tons of fresh water each day from sea water.

The water used to operate the laundry is water from the atmosphere, collected as it drains from the air-conditioning system. Specifically, 280 tons a day are retrieved; the laundry uses 220 tons.

 

[CCaprice]

More on the Disney theme:

When the Walt Disney Company built Hong Kong Disneyland, it consulted experts in Feng Shui, the traditional Chinese art of building and placing elements to be in harmony with each other and nature to bring the most good luck.

The Walt Disney Company, having been criticized for ignoring French culture when it built Disneyland Paris in the early 1990s, this time paid close attention to Chinese culture, customs, and traditions when building Hong Kong Disneyland.

For example, Hong Kong Disneyland's main gate and entrance was positioned in a north/south direction for good luck based on the ancient Chinese art of Feng Shui. And a bend was put in a walkway near the Hong Kong Disneyland Resort entrance so good "chi" energy doesn't flow into the South China Sea.

 

[luv1]

In Nevada, it officially only takes two people to start a riot. This is the smallest number of people required for a riot in the world. US federal law defines a riot as a disturbance involving three persons, Hawaii requires five or more, New Zealand six, Tonga five and the UK 12.

 

[Essa]

A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

 

[CCaprice]

Ferrets do not 'go feral' or 'wild'. A loose ferret will typically die of starvation within 4 days. They have no instinctive knowledge of what is or is not food. They will die within 24 hours of exposure as they can not tolerate freezing weather or heat of 90F.

A group of ferrets is called a "business."

Ferrets were given as gifts by Queen Victoria who raised albino ferrets.

 

[luv1]

You can't bend your little finger without moving your fourth finger because the flexor digitorum muscle, which flexes the fingertips, moves the middle, fourth and little finger as a unit. This finger has often been connected with healing powers.

In Latin, German, Japanese and Korean it is known as "medicine" or "doctor's" finger. The Western tradition of wearing a wedding ring on the left-hand fourth finger may have begun because it was thought that the vena amoris vein in that finger directly connected to the heart.

 

[koalabear]

Wal-Mart Butter is made by Land-O-Lakes.

 

[Essa]

Shelta is an esoteric jargon based on Irish and Gaelic, and it is still spoken by tinkers and vagrants in some parts of Ireland and England.

 

[smotherman]

Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!

 

[Daizie]

The 'Over the Rainbow' scene from 'The Wizard of Oz' was originally cut from the film because it was 'slow' and added nothing to the plot. It was added again at the last moment.

 

[smotherman]

The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!

 

[smotherman]

Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!

 

[fire_breeze]

The smallest island with country status is Pitcairn in Polynesia, at just 1.75 sq. miles/4,53 sq. km.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!

Such as what pray tell?

The world's largest diamond mine in eastern Siberia (Mirny, to be exact) is so deep (1200 metres) that the surrounding air zone is closed for helicopters after a few accidents when they were 'sucked in' by downward air flow.

 

[_Misty_]

There are 54 peaks in Colorodo over 14,000 feet in elevation, called the 14ers, spread among 7 mountain ranges. The highest is Mt. Elbert at 14,433. Colorado’s Fourteeners are now visited by nearly 500,000 people each season.

 

[_Misty_]

Truffle oil is often used as a lower-cost substitute for truffles to provide flavoring, or to enhance the flavor and aroma of truffles in cooking. However, most truffle oil is a synthetic product that contains no actual truffles

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Scientists have constructed the world's smallest car. It has a chassis, axles and a pivoting suspension. The wheels are buckyballs, spheres of pure carbon containing 60 atoms apiece.

The whole car is no more than 4 nanometers across. That's slightly wider than a strand of DNA. A human hair is about 80,000 nanometers thick. And amazingly it works!

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j160/Gaia_Lorraine/051020_nanocar_01.jpg

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

More on that diamond mine. This is one huge hole...

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j160/Gaia_Lorraine/DiamondMine03.jpg

The red arrow in the following pic is pointing to a 220-ton rock-hauling truck more than 20' tall.

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j160/Gaia_Lorraine/mirny_belaz.jpg

 

[Horns_Hold_the_Halo]

Because of complaints of violence from parents over his film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Steven Spielberg initiated efforts for an additional movie rating, PG-14. Instead, PG-13 was put into effect on July 1, 1984.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

If Barbie Doll was scaled up to real life size she would be about 7' tall, and her measurements would be around 39, 18. 32.
would have to crawl to support her top-heavy frame.
would only have room for a radius OR an ulna in her arms.
would only have room for a tibia OR a fibula in her legs.
would only have room for an esophogus OR a trachea in her neck (she could either eat OR breathe . . . we guess she must just breathe)
would wear a size 3 children's shoe.
would have a severly distorted face (like the pictures of aliens), due to the almost triple average size of her head.

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j160/Gaia_Lorraine/Barbie13715096.jpg

 

[IrishSprite]

A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes. (In my next life, I want to be a pig)

 

[Little Lady69]

According to the World Health Organization, there are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day.

WOW

 

[MSH2]

According to the World Health Organization, there are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day.

WOW

As Hugh Laurie, playing the Prince Regent in Blackadder3 said "For me, sex is like socks. Tons of it about, but I never seem to get any."

 

[Little Lady69]

The female bedbug has no sexual opening. To get around this small problem, the male uses his curved penis to drill a vagina into the female.

 

[MSH2]

The female bedbug has no sexual opening. To get around this small problem, the male uses his curved penis to drill a vagina into the female.

Ouch! Gives a whole new meaning to popping her cherry