Total Trivia

[mulehead61]

Many Civil War Battles have two names - the Union named battles after the closest body of water; the Confederacy after the closest town/city.

Union - Battle of Bull Run
Confederacy - First Manassas Battle

 

[smotherman]

Lightning strikes men about seven times more often than it does women.

About 50% of Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace. This is called propinquity.

Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.

The living does not outnumber the dead: since the creation about 60 billion people have died.

 

[smotherman]

Vincent Van Gogh only sold 1 painting his whole life and that was to his brother!

A Japanese explorer named Maomi Uemura was the first man to reach the North Pole alone, on April 29, 1978, after his eight-week journey.

Mark Twain, one of America’s best-loved authors, dropped out of school when he was 12 years old, after his father died.

There were about 300 bones in your body when you were born, but by the time you reach adulthood you only have 206.

 

[fire_breeze]

Vincent Van Gogh only sold 1 painting his whole life and that was to his brother!

That's what I tell myself...

 

[fire_breeze]

The term 'blow job', unlike many sexual slang, is recent, although the etymological root is just as hazy. Stemming from the 1950s, it seems that term 'blow' was a euphemism for 'suck', so in this case, a 'blow job' is actually a 'suck job'.

Furthermore, in the 50s, the word 'blow' was everyday slang for 'speed, faster-than-fast' as was used in close correlation to jets. Military pilots referred to their airplanes as 'blow jobs', because the speed of their jets will 'literally blow you away'. That said, sexual slang is often derived from military or naval expressions, so to be blown away quickly became a euphemism for receiving oral sex.

Now, some scholars (yeah, I kid you not. There are scholars of sexual euphemisms) think that 'blow job' stems from a 'blow off' job, which was used among prostitutes for oral sex. A prostitute would fellate a customer in order to help him 'blow off some steam'. There is sufficient evidence to suggest that by the late 1930s, a prostitute would offer a client the service of a 'blow off job' by asking if he needed to be 'blown', in other words - to release some steam.

By the 1960s, the term 'blow job' for oral sex was used among college men, prostitutes and printed porn. However, the word 'blow job' was solidly equated with 'oral sex' with Andy Warhol's film Blow Job in 1964, which contained a number of explicit scenes, more specifically it depicts an actor's face as he is receiving, yup, you guessed it, a blow job from an unseen partner.

So... that's the history of why it's called a blow job, as 'blow' was originally 'suck'

 

[smotherman]

That's what I tell myself...

Is there anything else you tell yourself?



The largest baby to be born so far weighed in at 15 pounds, 5 ounces!

On April 2, 1872, Victoria Woodhull became the first woman candidate for the U.S. presidency.

Can you feel the pulse in your wrist? For humans the normal pulse is 70 heartbeats per minute. Elephants have a slower pulse of 27 and for a canary it is 1000!

 

[smotherman]

The word “typewriter” is the longest word in the English Language that can be spelled with the the top of the keyboard

You speak about 4,800 words a day.

HIPPOPOTOMONSTROSESQUIPPEDALIOPHOBIA is the fear of long words

It has been estimated that the number of actively spoken languages in the world today is about 6,000

 

[firefighter12]

For those of you in or from the South, Spanish Moss is not a moss but a flowering member of the pineapple family. In the early 20th Century, there were factories that made mattresses stuffed with it and it is airborne and does not 'strangle' tres, despite its' appearance.

 

[smotherman]

Tired of the cold weather? Take a vacation on the hottest planet in the solar system – Venus. At over 800 degrees, it is hotter than Mercury because the clouds and abundant carbon dioxide hold in most of the heat received from the sun.

About 20 percent of the earths land is made up of desert, and the worlds largest desert is the Sahara of North Africa.

On a clear night, the human eye can see between 2,000 and 3,000 stars in the sky.

 

[fire_breeze]

On a clear night, the human eye can see between 2,000 and 3,000 stars in the sky.

Did you count 'em?

Oops, I mean

The current list of 88 constellations recognized by the International Astronomical Union since 1922 is based on the 48 listed by Ptolemy in his Almagest in the 2nd century. Of the 48 constellations listed by Ptolemy, thirty can be shown to have a much longer history, reaching back into at least the Late Bronze Age. This concerns the zodiacal constellations in particular.

 

[smotherman]

Did you count 'em?

Oops, I mean

I stopped at 1000

Thank you


Thomas Edison, the inventor of the lightbulb, was actually afraid of the dark.

The tallest man in this world was Robert Wadlow, a chinese man who was 7’1″

 

[fire_breeze]

The eye muscles are most active muscles in the whole body.

The external muscles that move the eyes are the strongest muscles in the human body for the job that they have to do. They are 100 times powerful than they need to be.

Lewis Carroll had episodes of micropsia during his migraine attacks which made him to conceive the idea of Alice seeing things smaller than they were.

 

[smotherman]

Not all stars are found inside galaxies. Astronomers have found stars moving between the galaxies, which are millions of light years apart. These stars may even have planets, possibly with intelligent life on them. If they do, these beings would see a lonely sky with just one star (its own sun) and a few faint galaxies.

If you were to place the planet Saturn in a big enough bowl of water, it would float!

When you think you’re standing still remember this fact. Even though you don’t feel it, our entire local group of galaxies is moving at about one million miles per hour toward another galaxy group called the Virgo Cluster.

 

[someoneyouknow]

Dr. Stephen Hawking was born exactly 300 years after the death of Galileo.

Sir Isaac Newton was born on Christmas day.

 

[smotherman]

43% of men prefer bacon over sex

I like bacon like the next guy, but I'll pick sex over bacon every day of the week LOL

 

[smotherman]

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

The more sex you have, the more you will be offered. The sexually active body gives off greater quantities of chemicals called pheromones. These subtle sex perfumes drive the opposite sex crazy!

 

[smotherman]

A boomerang that doesn't come back is called a "kylie

Eyes can process 36,000 bits of information every hour.

The term lingerie derives from the French word 'lin' which means linen.

 

[smotherman]

We humans are strange creatures - we fear sharks but we don't fear coconuts, yet ten times more people die each year from falling coconuts than are eaten by sharks!

The elephant is the only animal that cannot jump.

All the numbers on a roulette wheel add up to 666

 

[1sickbastard]

The term "Draconian" derives from a a 7th century BC Athenian who codified the unwritten laws at the time into a written form. The usual punishment for braking any of the laws was death, which was hardly unusual for most human societies at the time.

One contemporary account was that the Athenians were so enthusiastic at Draco's codified laws, that they inadvertently smothered him to death by thrown their caps and cloaks in a display of there approval.

 

[Dogma52]

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[smotherman]

The human body loses 30,000 dead skin cells every second and within one month it has replenished the whole surface.

The human body has 640 muscles which constitute 40% of the body mass.

When your cheeks blush, your stomach lining does also

 

[smotherman]

One inch of rain over one square mile is 17,378,700 gallons of water.

The chemical n-acetyl-cysteine found in raw eggs is proven to help hangovers.

The air we breathe is 78% nitrogen, 21.5% oxygen, .5% argon and other gases.

 

[smotherman]

The use of a Christmas wreath as a decoration on your front door, mantel or bay window symbolizes a sign of welcome and long life to all who enter.

An elephant's trunk contains more than 50,000 muscles.

An ant's sense of smell is as good as a Dog's.

Almonds are the oldest, most widely cultivated and extensively used nuts in the world.

 

[fire_breeze]

An ant's sense of smell is as good as a Dog's.

How on earth did they figure that out?

 

[smotherman]

How on earth did they figure that out?

Your guess is as good as mine. I have no idea! lol



there was only one president of the US that was not killed in office when he was elected durring a year ending in "0"

If you are a pregnant woman, if you eat a bowl of cereal each week, it is 87% more likely that will give birth to a boy.

60% of Japanese people will not make eye contact with another Japanese person during a conversation. 60% of Japanese people will make eye contact during conversation with a robot, however.