The Totally Random Trivia Thread

[Scofizzle]

Some math: 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

[Piccoli Fiori JMJ]

oh boy... math is evil.... :angry:

[Scofizzle]

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs
in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle;
if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of
natural causes.


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


Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without
killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get
fired."


Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".


There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.


Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock
and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature
wasn't added until 5 years later.


"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.


The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific.
When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots
fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."


The most common name in the world is Mohammed.


The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."


The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.

Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The
conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped
as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents
where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to
realize that *this* was the day of the changeover

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during
World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."

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

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

The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%


The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%

[azaelia]

[quote name='VeraMaria' date='Sep 18 2004, 08:03 PM'] [url="http://youngest_mother.tripod.com/"]http://youngest_mother.tripod.com/[/url] [/quote]


So wrong

[Thy Geekdom Come]

[quote name='Scofizzle' date='Oct 7 2004, 06:00 PM'] The word "samba" means "to rub navels together." [/quote]
Ummm...let's hope that's talking about oranges...

[Piccoli Fiori JMJ]

[quote name='Raphael' date='Oct 7 2004, 05:14 PM'] Ummm...let's hope that's talking about oranges... [/quote]
Oranges are good...

Did you know low carb diets aren't healthy? They make you depressed! Carbs when eaten realease some endorphin or somthing that makes you happy, but when you limit those carbs, you decrease your happiness... My friend knows all the details...

[rachael]

[quote name='FutureNunJMJ' date='Oct 7 2004, 07:16 PM'] Oranges are good...

Did you know low carb diets aren't healthy? They make you depressed! Carbs when eaten realease some endorphin or somthing that makes you happy, but when you limit those carbs, you decrease your happiness... My friend knows all the details... [/quote]
they are really bad for your heart to. clogs up the ateries. :angry:

[rachael]

[quote name='VeraMaria' date='Sep 18 2004, 08:07 PM'] The youngest girl ever to give birth was 5 1/2

She grew up with her son as if they were siblings
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