The Strange Trivia Thread

[phee]

A dentist invented the Electric Chair.

About 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens each year.

Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.

In 1892, Italy raised the minimum age for marriage for girls - to 12.

Post some of your own!

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

After being killed during the celebrated Battle of Trafalgar, British Admiral Horatio Nelson was put into a large barrel of brandy to preserve his body during the voyage back to England. When the ship arrived back home Lord Nelson was removed from the barrel and the crew celebrated his achievements by drinking the remaining brandy!

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and Great Britain in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

In 1994 Los Angeles police arrested a man for dressing as the Grim Reaper - complete with scythe - and standing outside the windows of old people's homes, staring in.

Abraham Lincoln held a patent for a device to lift boats over shoals? It was never manufactured - but he is the only US President to hold a patent.

It’s illegal to dress up as Batman in Australia.

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A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites.

You're more likely to be a target for mosquitoes if you consume bananas.

[damagedangel]

The honeybee kills more people world-wide than all the poisonous snakes combined.

A honey bee must tap two million flowers to make one pound of honey.

Chocolate contains phenylethylamine (PEA), a natural substance that is reputed to stimulate the same reaction in the body as falling in love.

Since Hindus don't eat beef, the McDonald's in New Delhi makes its burgers with mutton.

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Almonds and pistachios are the only nuts mentioned in the Bible.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

[freydis]

If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.

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The estimated weight of the Great Pyramid of Egypt is 6,648,000 tons.

A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.

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Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9m.

[Destroit]

It took about 64 trees to build your house, depending obviously on how big of a house we're talking.

In your lifetime you will have used 700,000 gallons of water just showering.

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The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court.

In 4000 BC Egypt, men and women wore glitter eye shadow made from the crushed shells of beetles.

A pineapple is a berry.

[phee]

After being killed during the celebrated Battle of Trafalgar, British Admiral Horatio Nelson was put into a large barrel of brandy to preserve his body during the voyage back to England. When the ship arrived back home Lord Nelson was removed from the barrel and the crew celebrated his achievements by drinking the remaining brandy!

[phee]

In Michigan, it is illegal to chain an alligator to a fire hydrant.

[Msterbeau]

In Athens, Greece, a driver's license can be lifted by the law if the driver is deemed either 'poorly dressed' or 'unbathed'.

On the island of Jersey it's against the law for a man to knit during the fishing season.

In Alabama it is illegal to carry a comb in your pocket, because it may be used as a weapon. This comes after a 13 year old boy was killed when he was stabbed with a comb.

It is against the law to whale hunt in Oklahoma.

In Fairbanks, Alaska it is illegal for a moose to walk on the side walk. This dates back to the early days if the town when the owner of the bar had a pet moose that he used to get drunk. The moose would then stumble around the town drunk. The only way the law makers could prevent this from happining was to create the law so the moose could not cross the sidewalk and get into the bar.

In Quebec, Canada, an old law states that margarine must be a different colour from butter. This law is the result of Quebec dairy lobbyists' pressure to ''protect'' their dairy business. They claimed margarine was beginning to resemble butter, as to be mistaken for real butter. Make margarine unattractive, and consumers would stick to butter. The Quebec government caved in, and tried to impose a dark vermilion-coloured margarine, which was disgusting. The colour, finally, at the other extreme, is a pallid almost-white-colourless margarine.

According to a british law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying.

It is illegal to sell an ET doll in France. They have a law forbidding the sale of dolls that do not have human faces.

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A movie theater manager in Seoul, South Korea, decided that the running time of The Sound of Music was too long. He shortened it by cutting out all the songs.

The ancient Incas played a primitive form of basketball, the object of which was to shoot a solid rubber ball through a stone ring placed high on a wall. The winner was traditionally awarded the clothes of all spectators present. The loser was put to death.

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In 1147, there was one week with two Thursdays in it. Pope Eugenius III visited Paris in that year on a Friday. Since Friday was supposed to be a day for fasting, the pope issued a decree to say that Friday was Thursday, thus enabling the population to celebrate his arrival.

[Oh_My_Goth]

Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing.

Nutmeg can be extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

Strong negative emotions lead to damage of the immune system.

The dot over the "i" is called a tittle.

Humans are the only primates having pigment in the palms of their hands.

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14.7% of Italian prostitutes have university degrees.

the literal translation of "coca cola" into Chinese is "bite the wax tadpole"?

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

On average women say 7,000 words per day. Men manage just over 2000

The average cup of coffee contains more than 1000 different chemical components, none of which is tasted in isolation but only as part of the overall flavor.

The average human body contains enough:

iron to make a 3 inch nail,

sulfur to kill all fleas on an average dog,

carbon to make 900 pencils,

potassium to fire a toy cannon,

fat to make 7 bars of soap,

phosphorous to make 2,200 match heads, and

water to fill a ten-gallon tank.

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In Province it is illegal to sell toothpaste and a toothbrush to the same customer on a Sunday.

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A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

[Msterbeau]

Elvis Presley purchased his first Cadillac in March 1955, the pink and white 54 Cadillac later went up in smoke due to a brake lining that caught on fire.

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The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

There are about 53 million dogs in the US, and Paris is said to have more dogs than people.

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Greatest snowfall in a single storm: 189 inches (Mt. Shasta, California; February 13-19, 1959)

[Rev.Reverence]

On average women say 7,000 words per day. Men manage just over 2000

I can not possibly see this being correct... I'm gonna' look into this... and I won't even THINK of using ME for the study...

..I talk how I type; with semi-colons, commas, and parenthesis ( sometimes the double parenthesis{but not often}).....

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

Except for our Brain and certain nerve clusters... we replace every atom in our body every 7 years.