Trivial Facts:

[Sacred Ground]

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

A snail can sleep for three years.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

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

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

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

If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."

There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.

[stevefoxsc]

those aren't important! this is stuff thats important


It takes Chuck Norris 20 minutes to watch 60 Minutes.

[Slim-Rob]

Texas is the only state to have had six different flags fly over its land -- Spain, France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the Confederate States of America and the United States of America.

[SeguinMatadors]

those aren't important! this is stuff thats important


It takes Chuck Norris 20 minutes to watch 60 Minutes.

lmfao!

[dragons08]

dragons08 is the coolest kid on the bored: FACT

[Sacred Ground]

Texas is the only state to have had six different flags fly over its land -- Spain, France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the Confederate States of America and the United States of America.
Interesting.....I didn't know that!

[Slim-Rob]

A forfeited game is baseball is recorded as a 9-0 score. In football it is 1-0.

In the four major US professional sports, (Baseball, Basketball, Football, and Hockey) there are only seven teams whose nicknames do not end with an "S."
Basketball: The Miami Heat, The Utah Jazz, The Orlando Magic.
Baseball: The Boston Red Sox, The Chicago White Sox.
Hockey: The Colorado Avalanche, The Tampa Bay Lightning. Football: None.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is the only city in the U.S. with three sports teams that all wear the same colors.

The sport with highest ratio of officials to participants is tennis. A singles match should have 13; ten linesmen, one net, one foot-fault, plus an umpire
The Yale Crew team was the first college sports team, started in 1843.

The Yale-Harvard crew race was the first, and the longest-running American intercollegiate sports event. The first race was held in 1852

A bowling pin need only tilt 7.5 degrees in order to fall down.

Rules govern the size, weight, compression, and performance of tennis balls. However, until 1978, a player could legally use absolutely anything as a tennis racket.

There is only 6 grams of gold in an Olympic gold medal.

In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, homerun.

The two quickest goals scored in the NHL were three seconds apart.

When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.

The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League Baseball All-Star Game.

No NFL team which plays it's home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined

Cathy Rigby is the only woman to pose nude for Sports Illustrated. (August 1972)

Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games.

[Slim-Rob]

The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.

The average mousepad is eight and three quarters by seven and a half inches.

The real name of "the" Bill Gates is William Henry Gates III. Nowadays he is known as Bill Gates (III). By converting the letters of his current name to the ASCII-values and adding his (III), you get the following:
B 66 I 73 L 76 L 76 G 71 A 65 T 84 E 69 S 83 I 1 I 1 I 1 -------------- 666 !!!
Some might ask, "How did Bill Gates get so powerful?" Coincidence? Or just the beginning of mankind's ultimate and total enslavement???
Before you decide, consider the following:
M S - D O S 6 . 3 1 77+83+45+68+79+83+32+54+46+50+49 = 666 W I N D O W S 9 5 87+73+78+68+79+87+83+57+53+1 = 666 Coincidence? You decide..

When measuring fonts 'point size' refers to the height of capital letters (one point being one 72nd of an inch). 'Pitch' is a horizontal measurement of the number of letters which can be printed in an inch.

A byte, in computer terms, means 8 bits. A nibble is half that: 4 bits. (Two nibbles make a byte!)

Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T.

The first hard drive available for the Apple had a capacity of 5 megabytes.

In many cases, the amount of storage space on a recordable CD is measured in minutes. 74 minutes is about 650 megabytes, 63 minutes is 550 megabytes.

Back in the mid to late 80's, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.
A Macintosh LC575 has 182 speaker holes.

[rancher52]

No NFL team which plays it's home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl.


This must be old.... didn't the Rams win in 2000?

[Slim-Rob]

Disneyland has the fourth largest navy in the world.

Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.

The hundred billionth crayon made by Crayola was Perriwinkle Blue.

Some 16,000,000,000 prizes have been given away in boxes of Cracker Jacks since the company started the practice in 1912.

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."

The only word that consists of two letters, each used three times is the word "deeded."

The word "girl" appears only once in the Bible.

Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of flag of Japan.

The 'v' in the name of a court case does not stand for 'versus', but for 'and' (in civil proceedings) or 'against' (in criminal proceedings).

"Rhythm" and "syzygy" are the longest English words without vowels.

The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapiki maungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu, a New Zealand hill.

The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. It is a a pneumoconiosis caused by the inhalation of very fine silicate or quartz dust. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.

The second longest word in the Oxford English Dictionary is "floccinaucinihilipilification," which means "the act of estimating as worthless." (This was on that comercial for Jack n the box, the spelling bee one)

[Slim-Rob]

This must be old.... didn't the Rams win in 2000?

OOPS. yeah, its from 98.

There are almost twice as many people in Rhode Island than there are in Alaska.

[CKE]

dragons08 is the coolest kid on the bored: FACT

well coolestkidever is the coolest kid ever

[Slim-Rob]

dragons08 is the coolest kid on the bored: FACT

I'm very bored.:D Look at my posts above.

This board is going to be fun in the off-season.

[SeguinMatadors]

well coolestkidever is the coolest kid ever

Chuck Norris annoited me the coolest kid ever... Chuck is coming for you.

[slorch]

Interesting.....I didn't know that!
texas is also the only state that when ratifying statehood, maintained the right to return to republic status without risk of reprisal.
( why haven't we done this yet?)

[slorch]

This must be old.... didn't the Rams win in 2000?
they're from LA right?

[dragonfootballfan]

they're from LA right?
nope St. Louis. They moved from Los Angeles

[slorch]

nope St. Louis. They moved from Los Angeles
c'mon i was joking...:D

[dragonfootballfan]

c'mon i was joking...:D
sorry, it is hard to detect sarcasm in typing

[Sacred Ground]

texas is also the only state that when ratifying statehood, maintained the right to return to republic status without risk of reprisal.
( why haven't we done this yet?)
This is something I didn't know until moving to Texas. I would guess that Texas relies heavily on Federal Education Funds, is why they don't return to republic status. It has become very expensive to educate children, especially the children of parents who don't pay taxes.

[rancher52]

texas is also the only state that when ratifying statehood, maintained the right to return to republic status without risk of reprisal.
( why haven't we done this yet?)

Unfortunately this is myth... from http://www.snopes.com/history/american/texas.asp

"Another Texas-related legend holds that the Texans negotiated an annexation treaty which reserved to them the right to secede from the Union without the consent of the U.S. Congress, but the terms of Texas' annexation contain no such provision."

The Flag flying thing is also untrue... the one that says Texas is the only state allowed to fly the state flag at the same height as the US Flag. You can find that on several sites.

[dragons08]

well coolestkidever is the coolest kid ever
the voters think otherwise

[slorch]

well Texas has a larger economy than France!!! I know this is true. LOL

[rancher52]

well Texas has a larger economy than France!!! I know this is true. LOL
Well at least you are giving me something to do. Since France usually has the 4 -6 th highest Gross Domestic Product I decided to look this up for myself. In 2000 France had a 1.4 trillion GDP (in US $$). Texas is estimated to have just over 900 billion at 4th qtr 2005. What indicator were you making your assertion on?

[wide-e-wide]

Well at least you are giving me something to do. Since France usually has the 4 -6 th highest Gross Domestic Product I decided to look this up for myself. In 2000 France had a 1.4 trillion GDP (in US $$). Texas is estimated to have just over 900 billion at 4th qtr 2005. What indicator were you making your assertion on?


The indicator that says...We are Texas...and if we wanted all of France's money...would kick their *** and take it.

[rancher52]

The indicator that says...We are Texas...and if we wanted all of France's money...would kick their *** and take it.
According to the other thread, I think they have already surrendered to Chuck.

[dragons08]

More Monopoly money is printed yearly than real money throughout the world.

Penguins are not found in the North Pole

People photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier errors worldwide.

A dentist invented the Electric Chair.

Rudolf the Red-nosed reindeer was actually created as a promotional figure for Montgommery Wards department stores.

Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%

A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.

Walt Disney got the idea for Mickey Mouse from watching mice play in a garage, where he was forced to work, because he could not afford to rent an art studio.

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

About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.

Alexander Graham Bell's wife and mother were both deaf

A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death

[wide-e-wide]

A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death

That's just scary.

[dragons08]

That's just scary.
its pretty cool though

[Sacred Ground]

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

Coca-Cola was originally green.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

The youngest pope was 11 years old.

The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.

[dragons08]

8 and 9 year old parents? wtf?? didnt even know they were 'devloped' enough to do that

[rancher52]

women can hear better.


We all knew this, right?

[dragons08]

We all knew this, right?
what, i cant hear you

[Sacred Ground]

8 and 9 year old parents? wtf?? didnt even know they were 'devloped' enough to do that
Maybe it has something to do with this trivial fact: (If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.)

[Sacred Ground]

The state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska

Those San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.

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

What occurs more often in December than any other month?
Conception.

Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

What is an activity performed by 40% of all people at a party?
Snoop in your medicine cabinet.

[Sacred Ground]

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

[Sacred Ground]

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

At least 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow

[dragons08]

It is impossible to lick your elbow.
reminds me of the trick to do to girls..tell them to touch their elbows behind their back

[dragons08]

At least 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow
well, ive tryed it before, and it was spoken to me, so im in the 25 percent tile

[dragons08]

99.999999999 percent of people belive seguin is a loser

00.00000001 belive seguin is cool

[slorch]

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

Coca-Cola was originally green.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

The youngest pope was 11 years old.

The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.

And my wife gets on to me for acting like a 12 year old...

[slorch]

It is impossible to lick your elbow.
even for Gene Simmons?

[lonny23]

even for Gene Simmons?
I'm glad you started posting here. You have some good posts!:D

[slorch]

that is high praise coming from you.

Thanks...