Trivia

[Pickles]

In its entire lifetime, the average worker bee produces 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey.

Surveys show 56% of workers have had sex at work.

"Oneiromancy" is the practice of predicting the future by interpreting dreams.

Women prefer blue bedrooms more than other colors. Men prefer white bedrooms.

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

The first child ever born on the continent of Antarctica was born in 1978.

About 30 million Americans have insomnia.

Since its founding, Apple Computer has received hundreds of angry letters claiming that its logo, an apple with a bite taken out, represents original sin.

No other word can be made by rearranging the letters of the word "anagram."

Otters can get herpes.

The average person takes 8,000 to 10,000 steps a day, according to the American Podiatric Association.

According to a Kinsey survey, 75% of men ejaculate within three minutes of penetration.

The Persian Emperor Cyrus the Great loved his horse. When his horse drowned in a river, Cyrus sentenced the river to death.

Pepper is the top-selling spice in the world.

Twenty-six percent of the water consumed in the U.S. is bottled.

The best badminton shuttles are made from the feathers from the left wing of a goose.

According to a study at Florida State University, people spend more money on refreshments at tractor pulls than they do at football games.

"Telephonicophilia" is the technical name of arousal derived from phone sex.

Australia is the smallest, flattest and driest inhabited continent in the world.

[EvolutionHasBegun]

the first THREE minutes?? [img]eek.gif[/img]

[Rogue Angel]

damn... i hope these 3 minute men take care of business BEFORE penetration then.... *chuckles*...

[Pickles]

An average person's yearly fast food intake will contain 12 pubic hairs.

The Three Stooges were originally called Three Lost Souls.

The average clock's snooze function lasts nine minutes.

On the standard Rorschach test, there are 10 inkblots.

One of every seven people in the United States is Hispanic.

When truckers in the U.S. talk about "green stamps," they're referring to speeding tickets.

The top of the Empire State Building was originally intended as a mooring place for dirigibles. (It was never used for that purpose.)

The success rate of A.A. is estimated to be 5%.

The Roman emperor Commodus was at one time going to change the name of Rome to Colonia Commodiana.

Forty percent of women experience nocturnal orgasms.

There are lyrics to the theme song from Star Trek.

A.A.A., the American Auto Association, has more members than any other organization in the U.S.

Just 0.546% of men in the U.S. are named Scott.

The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History houses the world's largest shell collection, with some 15 million specimens.

Ancient Latin and Aramaic are related to every modern language, but not to one another.

Donald Duck's father is named Quackmore Duck.

Orchids release a chemical that intoxicates bees.

Actor Andy Garcia was a Siamese twin.

The Humvee (HMMWV), commonly called the Hummer, is a named derived from "High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle."

A newly formed nerve cell is called a "neuroblast."

[Pickles]

Las Vegas means "the meadows" in Spanish.

In Nevada, there are more than 209,000 slot machines normally operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The first neon sign appeared in Las Vegas in 1954 at the Boulder Club.

The bell is the oldest symbol still used on today's slot machines.

The average annual temperature in Las Vegas is 66 degrees.

It would take 288 years for one person to spend one night in every hotel room in Las Vegas.

Shrimp consumption in Las Vegas is more than 60,000 pounds a day. That's nearly 22 million pounds per year.

The Stardust was the first hotel in Vegas to add a sports book to its casino.

Nickel slots on the Strip pay back anywhere from 86.9 percent to 92.8 percent of what they take in.

Las Vegas casinos never use dice with rounded corners.

It's estimated that every day Las Vegas casinos give away $3 million of freebies (more than $1 billion per year) just to get customers through their doors.

It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas.

The Horseshoe was the first Las Vegas casino to install carpeting.

A vagrant once turned a $400 Social Security check into $1.6 million playing blackjack in a Las Vegas casino.

According to suppliers, purple is the favorite ink color in daubers used by Las Vegas Bingo players.

The beam of light atop the Luxor in Las Vegas is made up of 39 individual lamps. Each xenon lamp costs $1,200 and will last about 2,000 hours. The electric bill for the Luxor beam is $51 an hour.

Las Vegas has the highest number of unlisted phone numbers of any U.S. city.

The iconic, waving neon cowboy, located at Vegas' Pioneer Club downtown, is named Vegas Vic.

Frank Sinatra was the first Vegas headliner to earn $100,000 per week.

More than 110,000 marriage licenses are issued in Las Vegas each year.

Elvis and Priscilla Presley were married at the original Aladdin hotel.

The Silver Slipper was the first casino to hire female card dealers on the Las Vegas Strip (in 1971).

[Pickles]

The average person wears a pair of pants for 22.6 months before getting rid of them.

Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand.

About one out of four injuries by athletes involve the wrist and hand.

The San Francisco cable cars are the only mobile national monuments.

When cooking at home, Americans are more likely to cook spaghetti with meat sauce than any other dish.

The world's cleanest air is in Tasmania.

Over the course of their lifetime, the average person will own 11 pieces of luggage.

During the 1830s, the Taj Mahal was scheduled to be torn down.

The average sink contains 3.2 unwashed dishes.

Twenty-two African-Americans received the Medal of Honor during the Civil war.

The world's chickens lay around 400,000,000,000 eggs each year.

The great European cathedrals are so solidly built that there is sometimes as much stone below ground as above it.

Leonardo da Vinci invented an alarm clock that woke the sleeper by gently rubbing their feet.

Popeye is 34 years old and weighs 158 pounds.

In Latin, the word "pencil" means "little tail."

A rattling noise in a car engine indicate 19 different mechanical problems.

The male northern fur seal can have as many as 100 mates per season.

Sunbeams that shine down through the clouds are called "crepuscular" rays.

The common mousetrap was invented by the same guy who invented the machine gun?Hiram Maxim.

The Eiffel Tower weighs approximately 9,441 tons.

[Pickles]

In champagne bottles, the dent in the bottom is called the"kick" or "punt."

The average age of a new grandparent in the U.S. is 47.

Olive trees can live to be 1,500 years old.

The average water temperature of showers in the U.S. is 105 degrees Fahrenheit.

Almost half the bones in your body are in your hands and feet.

Blackbeard's pirate ship was named Queen Anne's Revenge.

"Amateur" comes from the Latin "amator," meaning "lover."

Dr. Jeckyll's first name was Henry. Mr. Hyde's was Edward.

Mail carriers in Great Britain report fewer dog bites than mail carriers in any other country.

Next to Warsaw, Chicago has the largest Polish population in the world.

Kevlar is the brand name for poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide, a molecule created by DuPont.

Hair grows more slowly at night.

Blondie, Dagwood's wife in the "Blondie" comic strip, had a maiden name. It was Boopadoop.

"Nostophobia" is the fear of returning home.

The rhesus monkey is the only animal that can be taught to hum a tune.

The full name of Chucky, star of Child's Play and the sequels that followed, is Charles Lee Ray. It's a mix of Charles Manson, James Earl Ray and Harvey Oswald.

"Jolly green," "ashes," "Indian boy," and "laughing grass" are all street terms for marijuana.

Frogs use their eyeballs to push food down their throat.

The Philippines is made up of 7,107 islands.

Catherine the Great relaxed by being tickled.

[Rogue Angel]

....indian boy...? *scratching head*... lol... don't think i've ever heard it called THAT before.....

[Pickles]

The average American eats 46 slices of pizza a year.

Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms per day.

The average man spends about 3,500 hours of his life shaving, removing about 30 feet of whiskers.

Buckingham Palace has more than 600 rooms.

The production number assigned to The Wizard of Oz by MGM was 1060.

Twinkies are 68 percent air.

The largest school in the world is City Montessori School in India. The school has more than 25,000 students, with grades ranging from kindergarten to college.

The Grateful Dead were a one-hit wonder. Their only top 10 hit was "Touch of Gray."

Olympic badminton rules say that the shuttlecock has to have exactly 16 feathers.

The Earth orbits the Sun at a speed of 67,000 miles per hour.

There are 22 stars in the Paramount logo.

Alaska could hold the 21 smallest states.

At age 12, an African named Ernest Loftus made his first entry in his diary and continued, every single day, for 91 years.

A rhinoceros produces up to 60 pounds of droppings in the course of a day.

There are 24 flowers on each Oreo cookie.

When Egyptian conquered Libya in the 13th century B.C., they took possession of 13,320 penises of their defeated enemy.

Cleopatra married two of her brothers.

One out of four children in the U.S. is overweight.

The average canary has about 2,200 feathers.

Americans eat 12 billion bananas each year.

The Pentagon has 284 restrooms.

One billion seconds is about 32 years.

[Pickles]

The black lines on a basketball are called the "channels."

The average bank robbery yields just $4,400 for the criminal.

Napoleon had an enema every day.

Americans have sex 132 times per year, on average.

In Maryland, it's illegal to play the novelty hit, Short People, by Randy Newman, on the radio.

Each employee at Ben & Jerry's headquarters gets three pints of free ice cream a day.

Since the United Nations was founded in 1945, there have been 140 wars.

It costs .81 cents to mint a penny.

When McDonald's opened its first restaurant in Kuwait in 1994, the drive-through line was seven miles long.

Popeye's hometown was Sweethaven.

The average person speaks 125 to 150 words per minute.

The first vertebra is called the "atlas," because it holds up the head.

"Stygiophobia" is the fear of hell.

Shaggy from Scooby-Doo's real name is Norville Rogers. His home address is 224 Maple Street, Coolsville.

Hares and rabbits never mate with each other.

The U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing produces about 37 million notes a day.

Jimmy Hendrix was a "one-hit wonder." He only cracked the top 20 one time, with "All Along the Watchtower."

The flea can jump 350 times its body length. That's the equivalent of a human jumping the length of a football field.

There are an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun.

Mata Hari's real name was Margaretha Zelle. She took the stage name Mata Hari when she became an exotic dancer, prior to becoming a spy during World War I.