The Strange Trivia Thread

[phee]

The earliest fossil cockroach is about 280 million years old – 80 million years older than the first dinosaurs!

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111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

[Burrich1]

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.

I would bet money those were the Mayans Phee.

[Angel of Death]

In Baltimore, Maryland, it is illegal to take a lion to the movies.

In Staten Island, New York, You may only water your lawn if the hose is held in your hand.

China Gets One Right!

According to a law in China, you must be intelligent to go to college.

In Greene, New York, During a concert, it is illegal to eat peanuts and walk backwards on the sidewalks.

And I saw two site that had these for Michigan

# You may not swear in front of women and children in the state of Michigan.

# A woman isn't allowed to get her hair cut without her husband's permission.

# Any person over the age of 12 may have a license for a handgun as long as he/she has not been convicted of a felony.

# It is legal for a robber to file a law suit, if he or she got hurt in your house.

are these true????

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JIMI HENDRIX was the opening act for the MONKEES on their first tour.

In 1982, seven books by Jim Davis about GARFIELD were on the New York Times best-sellers list at the same time.

[Angel of Death]

Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food!

There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!

[GothicRavenGoddess (3)]

its also illegal for a woman to show her ankles in MI!

in SC its legal for a husband to beat his wife, on the (by "the", i mean any)" courthouse steps, on a Sunday morning.

[Angel of Death]

its also illegal for a woman to show her ankles in MI!

in SC its legal for a husband to beat his wife, on the (by "the", i mean any)" courthouse steps, on a Sunday morning.

...nvr heard of ne1 being charged with indecent exposer for ANKLES yet hehehehe

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All the planets in our solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus. It is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.

"Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

[Angel of Death]

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar

tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have

about ten

On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!

(That explains a few mysteries....)

Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson."

Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book

most often stolen from public libraries.

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone

[jadnifer]

Rubber bands last longer if you keep them in the refridgerator.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

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Wal-Mart, the colossal retail chain, is the world's largest corporation. Last year its total income was $246.5 billion, a sum larger than the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Sweden, Austria or Norway. It is the 19th largest economy in the world.

Those who believe in "smokers' rights" would be well advised to consider the case of Helena, Montana, a city of about 70,000 that banned indoor smoking in public places in June 2002. The heart attack rate immediately began to decline, and by 6 month's time there were 58% fewer heart attacks for people living inside the city limits - but NO decrease for people living in the same area, but in places without a similar ban!! When the Big Tobacco lobby succeeded in "persuading" the state legislature to make such bans illegal, the number of heart attacks in the city immediately began to climb again, and within a few months had returned to normal. // Exposure to smoke, whether first or second hand, causes platelets (the blood cells that cause clotting) to become stickier, which leads to more frequent clotting in a matter of 30 minutes, and hence an increase in blockage of blood vessels leading to the heart - heart attack!!

The city Halifax, Nova Scotia has more bars per capita then any other city in North America.

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By analysing crater patterns on Venus, as found by the interplanetary probe Magellen in 1990, scientists have decided that the entire surface of the planet is the same age - about 500 million years old. It seems that, instead of giant crustal plates being pushed around on the surface of the planet, as found on Earth, the crust of Venus is very quiet for long periods of time, after which pressures built up by its mantle (the semi-fluid layer of rock between the crust and the core) completely destroy and re-create the entire surface of the planet all at the same time.

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A donkey will sink in quick sand, while a mule will not.

In an average day, a four year old child will ask 437 questions.

Pi has been calculated to over 2,260,321,363 digits.

"Q" is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States.

[Rev.Reverence]

apperently, SOME goats hang out in trees...I am surprized...

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Male rhesus monkeys often hang from tree branches by their amazing prehensile penises.

Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.

[Rev.Reverence]

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.

A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction

A snail can sleep for 3 years.

China has more English speakers than the United States.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

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Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England - but only in tropical fish stores. (But of course!)

There are men in Guam whose job is to travel the countryside and deflower young virgins, who pay them for the privilege of having sex for the 1st time.

For every ‘normal’ webpage, there are five porn pages.

The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation.

“Formicophilia” is the fetish for having small insects crawl on your genitals. (If anyone has read "The Great and Secret Show" by Clive Barker... you should have heard of this)

Male bats have the highest rate of homosexuality of any mammal.

Women who read romance novels have sex twice as often as those who don’t. (I am all for literacy, aren't you?)

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If every star in the Milky Way was a grain of salt they would fill an Olympic sized swimming pool.

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Somewhere in the flicker of a badly tuned TV set is the background radiation from the Big Bang.

[Burrich1]

The tallest mountain (actually a volcano) in our solar system is Olympus Mons on Mars. Being a little less than 17 miles tall, it is so huge, that if you stood at the base, you wouldn't be able to see the top due to its shallow slope and the curvature of the planet.

edited to change universe to solar system. Oops.

[phee]

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.

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

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

The women of Iceland earn two-thirds of their nation's university degrees.

[Guest GodfallenPromos]

"There are men in Guam whose job is to travel the countryside and deflower young virgins, who pay them for the privilege of having sex for the 1st time."

and yet another reason to move to Guam....

Kelsey Grammer is the only person to win 3 Emmy's for the same character (Dr. Fraiser Crane)....in three seperate series (Cheers, Fraiser, and a guest spot on Wings).

"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle....*didn't realize that this was a reason to be so angry...will have to keep track of Lance Armstrong*

You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206....*MUST FIND BONE THEIVES!!*