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08-10-2009, 02:01 PM #1
Useless Trivia Thread
Jeremy_Falcons suggested we start a useless trivia thread and I thought it was a great idea...love random, useless trivia. So feel free to discuss and add your own trivia nuggets!
I'll start it off with this:
The jeep was not always called that. Instead, in the Army it was called a general purpose vehicle. It was then shortened to GP (jeep), and the car company just started to manufacture the general purposes vehicles under the name "Jeep."
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08-10-2009, 02:10 PM #2
Ups designs their routes to only make right turns..... saves on gas because you dont have to stop
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08-10-2009, 02:18 PM #3
Nice! That's a great one, thanks!
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08-10-2009, 02:22 PM #4
my contributions ..
1. You can not lick your own elbow ... Try it!!!
2. Rat's can last longer than a Camel without water
3. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit will damage it.
4. When you flush your Toilet, airborn particles can float up to 6 feet away ... keep your toothbrush in a cabinet!!! Ewwwwwwwww
5. Elephants are the only Land Mammal that can't jump
6. Almost everyone that reads my post will try to lick their elbow!! :-)
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08-10-2009, 02:26 PM #5
I always thought it was because you don't want to pass wind in an airtight room!
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08-10-2009, 03:10 PM #6BANNED
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
Celery has negative calories as it takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
315 entries in Webster’s 1996 dictionary were misspelled.
Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That’s more than sharks
Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is number 47. Until August 7 1953, congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.
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, home run.
Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest
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08-10-2009, 04:54 PM #7
lol, there is some pretty comical stuff here! I can only think of one right now, but I'm sure I'll think of more later.
Turtles are the only animal that can breathe through their butts.
That UPS one is quite interesting...never knew that! Makes sense, though.
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08-10-2009, 07:59 PM #8
Only female Mosquitos suck blood.
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08-10-2009, 08:06 PM #9
You can tell a male lobster from a female one by examining the underside of their tails. Males have a white underside and females have pinkish-purple underside.
1729 is the smallest number that can be expressed as the sum of two perfect squares in two different ways.
In 1887, a depressed US President Grover Cleveland told a five-year-old boy visiting the White House with his father, "I wish for you that you may never be President of the United States." The boy was Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
The smallest baby ever to survive weighed only 8.6 ounces at birth. The largest baby ever to survive weighed 22 pounds, 8 ounces at birth.
The pistol shrimp stuns its prey by using its claw to blast out a jet of water at about 60 mph. This causes the formation of a bubble whose collapse is louder than a gunshot.
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08-10-2009, 09:04 PM #10
Water flows down drains counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere, and clockwise in the southern hemisphere, because of the way the Earth spins.
Contrary to beliefs, tomatoes and cucumbers are not vegetables. (vegetables don't have seeds; fruits do)
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