Trivia

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The average American eats 23 quarts of ice cream during the course of a year.

The "bumpers" on the bottom of toilet seats are called "buculets."

"The Star-Spangled Banner" is considered the most difficult national anthem on Earth to sing.

The Sumerians had a goddess of beer. Her name was Ninkasi.

In a fire station in Livermore, California, there is a light bulb that has been burning since 1901.

The only continent without a desert is Europe.

"Uranophobia" is the morbid fear of heaven.

The real name of the Tin Man in the "Wizard of Oz" books was Nick Chopper.

Tokyo was once known as Edo.

Most NASCAR teams use nitrogen in their tires instead of air.

In the eighth grade, Elvis Presley got a "C" grade in music.

About 97 percent of the water on Earth is saltwater.

Basketball is the most popular sport among college women.

Among other things, ninjas were trained to tell what time it was by looking into a cat's eye.

"Morning dew" is slang for "gonorrhea."

The highest temperature ever recorded on Earth was 136.4 degrees Fahrenheit at Al'Aziziyah, Libya, in 1922.

There are currently more than seven million millionaires in the world.

The average person will grow 590 miles of hair during their lifetime.

Singer John Denver's real name was Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr.

The Bank of America started as the Bank of Italy.

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In Atlanta, Georgia, it is illegal to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole or street lamp.

According to the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation, only about 17 percent of adult film performers use condoms.

Porphyrophobia is a morbid fear of the color purple.

Dubai is home to the first and only seven star hotel, the Burj Al-Arab.

At birth, country singer Garth Brooks was named Troyal Garth Brooks.

Shakespeare was the first to use certain words that are now common, including "hurry," "bump," "eyeball" and "anchovy."

Americans spend more on cat food every year than on baby food.

The average lifespan of a $50 bill is five years.

Cows have a total of 32 teeth.

Tornadoes happen more often in the United States than anywhere else in the world.

Shaquille O'Neal wears size 22 shoes.

There is no record that Jesus either laughed or smiled.

A female ninja is called a "kunoichi."

The jewelry industry uses about 1,000 tons of gold per year and dentistry uses 87 tons.

The first college on record to use the word "campus" to describe its grounds was Princeton. "Campus" is Latin for "field."

In the early days of motion pictures, "movies" were the people who worked on films.

The longest alphabet is Cambodian. It has 74 letters.

In Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile, it has never rained.

"E" is the most frequently used letter in the English alphabet, "Q" the least.

Maine is the only state in the United States whose name is just one syllable.

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A baseball has exactly 108 stitches.

Cockroaches can run up to three miles per hour.

"Hussy" originally meant "housekeeper."

The bar symbol used on slot machines is derived from a Bell Fruit Gum logo.

"Peladophobia" is the fear of becoming bald.

The average human will shed 40 pounds of skin in a lifetime.

About 26 percent of the land in Melbourne, Australia is reserved for parks.

Earth is the densest planet in our solar system.

The name Jeep came from the military abbreviation GP, short for the army's General Purpose Vehicle.

Thirty-eight percent of doctors in America are Indian.

A new car depreciates 20 to 30 percent the moment it's driven off the dealer's lot.

Thomas Jefferson died of chronic diarrhea.

Ancient Egyptians could be put to death for mistreating a cat.

Fidel Castro once worked as a Hollywood extra.

In Texas, it is illegal to curse in front of a corpse.

Pain travels through your body at 350 feet per second.

Hawaii has three interstate highways.

If a rhino has two horns, it's from India. If it has one horn, it's from Africa.

A cow can't vomit.

"Resistentialism" is the theory that inanimate objects demonstrate hostile behavior against us.

The world's termites outweigh humans 10-to-1.

The two most common surgeries are biopsies and cesarean sections.

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Erect giraffe penises are about four feet long.

"Hockey" is archaic slang for "semen."

The average person spends about five years of their life eating.

The world's shortest river, the D River in Oregon, is just 121 feet long.

Protestants tend to have lower incomes than Catholics.

The bumps on a basketball are called "pebbling."

Ice covers 10 percent of the Earth's surface.

A group of ferrets is called a "business."

When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year.

The sport that's most often the subject of movies is boxing.

Seventy percent of Americans have visited Disneyland or Disney World.

The worst traffic bottleneck in the U.S. is at the juncture of the I-10 and 405 freeways in Los Angeles.

"Allodoxaphobia" is the fear of opinions.

Stevie Nicks does most of her songwriting in the bathroom.

Denny's restaurants were originally called "Danny's."

The first Social Security check was issued by the US government on January 31, 1940 to Ida Fuller of Brattlesboro, Vermont. Her check number was 00-000-001 and it was for $22.54.

"Myomancy" is the practice of predicting the future based upon the movements of mice.

Crocodiles sometimes swallow stones to help them dive deeper.

Beaver Cleaver's locker number was 9.

The first man to distill bourbon whiskey in the United States, in 1789, was a Baptist preacher.

"Squiff it" and "pull a cluck" are euphemisms for dying.

Bolshoi (as in the Bolshoi Ballet) means "big" in Russian.

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Radio personalities Howard Stern and Rush Limbaugh were both born on January 12.

"Reltney" is archaic slang for "penis."

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

There are 40,000 traffic intersections in Los Angeles.

Yellowstone was the world's first national park.

In publishing, a left-hand page is called "verso." The right is called "recto."

Cecil B. Demille's middle name was Blount.

The first known written advertisement is more than 3,000 years old. It was found in the ruins of Thebes.

A group of bears is called a "sleuth."

The decibel was named after Alexander Graham Bell.

Major League baseball teams use about 850,000 balls per season.

During Roman times, it wasn't uncommon for dice to be made from the knuckles of sheep.

"Maori" translates as "ordinary."

Of the 398 million telephones in the world, more than a third are in the United States.

Harry Houdini's motto was, "Secure knots secure not Houdini."

The Vatican's Swiss Guard still wears a uniform designed by Michelangelo in the early 16th century.

"Parathesia" is the medical condition commonly referred to as "pins and needles."

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

The English language has about 1,000 recognized euphemisms for "vagina."

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It's estimated that armed citizens kill three times more criminals than police officers do.

The female ants are the ones that do all the work.

There are 132 Hawaiian islands.

America has just about an equal proportion of extroverts (49.3 percent) and introverts (50.7 percent).

Charles Dickens wrote under the pen name Boz.

The expression "hat trick" comes from cricket, where at one time, if a player scored three consecutive wickets, he was awarded a hat.

Bruce Lee was the 1958 Cha-Cha champ of Hong Kong.

It takes 60 seconds for blood to make one complete circuit of the human body.

A male donkey is a jackass. A female is called a jenny.

In France, the U.S. TV drama Law and Order is called New York District.


Fishermen in China train otters to herd fish into their nets.

The most push-ups ever performed in one day was 46,001.

John D. Rockefeller was world's first billionaire.

King Arthur's horse was named Lamri. The word means "the foaming one."

Studies show more women talk to their cars than men do.

The perfect pickle should have seven "warts" per square inch.

The Salvation Army's motto is, "Blood and fire."

One-fifth of all of America's dairy cows are in Wisconsin.

William Shatner shared the first interracial kiss in American television history with Star Trek costar Nichelle Nichols in 1968. The episode was titled "Plato's Stepchildren."

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Dairy cows can produce 125 pounds of saliva a day.

"Barf" means "snow" in the Persian language.

Ninety-eight percent of all animal species don't have a backbone.

The heat of peppers is rated on the Scoville scale.

Native Americans once used woodpecker scalps as currency.

There are about a billion bicycles in the world, twice as many as automobiles.

During the course of a year, the average person walks four miles to make their bed.

It took 20,000 men 22 years to build the Taj Mahal.

The Pittsburgh Steelers were originally called the Pirates.

The circumference of the Earth at the equator measures 24,902 miles.

"Siderodromophilia" is sexual arousal derived from riding in trains.

Budweiser beer is named after a town in Czechoslovakia.

Popeye was 5'6" tall.

The Chunnel, the tunnel between England and France, is 31 miles long, 23 of which are under water.

Arguments in the home most often happen in the kitchen.

In Wilton, Maine there is a cannery that imports and cans only dandelion greens.

The word "galaxy" comes from the Greek word for milk, galacticos.

A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.

Houdini's original name was Erich Weiss.

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An Oscar weighs seven pounds.

Tiger Woods' real first name is Eldrick.

"Emetophilia" is arousal from vomit or vomiting.

Diamonds with strong colors like red, pink and blue are called "fancies" and are extremely rare.

By 2015, 27 of the world's 33 largest cities will be Asian.

The belly button of a typical blue whale is eight inches across.

Ten percent of female Army recruits test positive for chlamydia.

Rice has five times more DNA than human beings.

Earth is the only planet in the solar system whose name is not derived from Greek or Roman mythology.

Lutetia was the ancient name of Paris, France.

Ted Turner owns more than 1.7 million acres of land in five states, making him the largest private landowner in the United States.

In Singapore, there are an average of 26 restaurants per square mile.

The pin that holds a hinge together is called a "pintle."

It has been medically proven that laughter is an effective painkiller.

Iceland was the first country to legalize abortion in 1935.

Fifty-four percent of Americans prefer to "fold" their toilet paper rather than "wad" it.

Kid Rock's real name is Robert Ritchie.

Libya is the only country in the world with a solid, single-colored flag. It's green.

There are almost 400 million bicycles in China.

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The typical person goes to the bathroom six times a day.

Tycoon Donald Trump has never used an ATM.

According to their movie contracts, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were not permitted to dance together in public.

"Chrematistophilia" is arousal from being charged for sex or robbed.

The kittens in a cat's litter can each have a different father.

Worldwide consumption of pork exceeds that of any other meat.

The typical hen lays 19 dozen eggs a year.

Lettuce is a member of the sunflower family.

The first CD to sell more than a million copies was Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits.

People who chase after rare birds are called "twitchers."

Jack is the most common name in nursery rhymes.

Pinocchio was made of pine.

Harry Houdini was born in Budapest, Hungary.

The porn industry employs more than 12,000 people in the state of California alone.

"Pnigophobia" is the fear of choking.

Finches practice songs in their sleep.

One-third of potatoes sold are French fried.

Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.

Dr. Seuss pronounced Seuss so it rhymed with "rejoice."

The largest known kidney stone weighed three pounds.