Post your Useless Trivia here!

[lazarus]

Here's one to get us started:

The people of Salt Lake City consume more lime-flavored gelatin than any other city in the United States.

[Guy Fawkes]

1. The oldest penis ever found is 425 million years old

(I've had this bookmarked forever! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3291025.stm )

[lazarus]

2. Hooray!

Isn't it neat when those antique bookmarks pay off?

[Endangered Specie]

4. Whats the most ancient 'other part' ever found.

[DS1]

10. We'll never know, nothing trumps dick in headlines

[Endangered Specie]

18. I guess there isnt much market for ancient vaginas?

[Dookus]

19. I dunno

Joan Rivers is still working...


(runs away and hides)

[Teddy_Salad]

5. I think Strom Thurmonds was older?

No?

[Endangered Specie]

23. Comparing him to a penis, your insulting...

penises.

[Teddy_Salad]

27. Sorry

He was a bit of a dick though, don't ya reckon?

[Dookus]

3. just read today...

Eilleen Brennan, Rue McClanahan and Allison Janney's mother were all once roommates.

[GirlinContempt]

6. I have two...

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada is the Slurpee capital of the world. The 7-Eleven stores in Manitoba sell an average of 8,300 Slurpee drinks per store each month, compared to the national monthly rate of 5,900, which makes this Province the world leader in Slurpee sales.



The frogfish can open swallow prey and then close mouth in 6 milliseconds...

[terrya]

7. Katharine Hepburn has won the most Best Actress Oscars.

4 -

1 "A Bill of Divorcement"

2 "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"

3 "The Lion in Winter" - tied with Barbra Streisand, the only tie in Academy Award history

4) "On Golden Pond"

[Dookus]

14. nuh uh

her first Oscar was for Morning Glory in 1933.

[terrya]

16. I stand corrected. You're right.

[Dookus]

17. man... I never get tired of hearing that...

[Lizz612]

8. Kansas is significantly flatter than a pancake.

http://www.improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume9/v9...
"Kansas’s flatness is approximately 0.9997. That degree of flatness might be described, mathematically, as “damn flat.” "

[i_no_knothing]

29. and less interesting than a pancake too

[beyurslf]

32. Being a Kansan, I had to correct you. FLORIDA is the FLATTEST

state. Their highest point is 345 ft above sea level and the lowest is sea level a difference of 345 feet.

Kansas'' highest point is 4039 feet and the lowest is 679 a difference of 3360 feet.

Here is the link:

<http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001792.html >

[beyurslf]

34. Additionally, looking over that

the following are also flatter than Kansas:

Alabama
Arkansas
Connecticut
Delaware
D.C
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Louisiana
Michigan
Massachusetts
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
New Jersey
North Dakota
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Wisconsin

I think that is a good trivia list.

How many states (including DC) are flatter than KS?

20

[Donkeyboy75]

9. Maine is the only state

that is monosyllabic.

[Tom_Foolery]

11. The speed of light is 186,272 miles per second...n/t

[Endangered Specie]

20. In a vacuum.

[Tom_Foolery]

24. Hoover or Kirby? n/t

[KamaAina]

12. Mt. Everest is NOT the highest mountain on Earth

not when measured from its base. That'd be Hawai'i's very own Mauna Kea; remember, its base is thousands of feet beneath the ocean floor.

[alarcojon]

36. and Mt. Chimborazo, Ecuador

is the furthest point from the center of mass of Earth (since the Earth bulges slightly at the equator).

[Ediacara]

50. It's also the closest you'll ever get to the sun

Without being in an airplane or space ship.

[Lefty48197]

13. The earth is smoother than a cue ball

A physics teacher told us this once. The radius of the earth is something like 4000 miles. The biggest mountain on earth is no more than 3 miles tall.

[NightTrain]

15. The earliest "records" were actually wax cynlinders.

They came in a tin can and could only be played a few times before the grooves wore out.




NOTE: These pictures are of a later model cylinder, hence the phrase "NEVER WEARS" appearing on the can.

[Endangered Specie]

21. (epsilon_0 * mu_0)^(-1/2) = c

[TheMightyFavog]

22. The last line to be uttered on Friends is

"Where?"

[NMDemDist2]

25. Arizona has 6 of the 7 eco-climes

the only thing we're missing is glaciers

[Red State Rebel]

26. A honeybee finishes collecting on one type of flower before moving on

to the next in it's area. If a garden has 5 types of flowers it will only do one kind at a time.

[Teddy_Salad]

28. Is that right?

Fascinating.

They say you learn something new every day. Well, that was mine for today.

[Red State Rebel]

41. That is a fact....

I just finished the Master Gardening certification and one of our lessons was from the head of Entomology at Univ. of Missouri and she told us that.

I believe the reason is to prevent cross pollination. It may sound silly, but these little factoids are one of the things that reaffirms to me that there is a God.

[Beaker]

30. who is the only person to win a Tony, an Emmy, an Oscar, and a Grammy?

Rita Moreno.

[BrotherBuzz]

31. Oysters grow on trees in MulegŽ

[TOhioLiberal]

33. When a foal is born...

...its eyes are as big as they'll ever get.

[Salviati]

35. The density of mercury is 13.7 g/cm^3

13.7, as all you physicicsts out there know is also the energy of the ground state of hydrogen in electron-volts...

[lpbk2713]

37. It's impossible to sneeze and keep your eyes open

at the same time.

[Endangered Specie]

38. Charge of an electron = -1.69e-19 C

[Salviati]

39. there are pi*10^7 seconds in a year

to within under 1% differance

[Red State Rebel]

43. Pi Guy...

My son went to college (engineering school) with a guy who had memorized Pi to over 240 places. He won a Pie one time at a contest on campus . He is now doing graduate work at MIT....

[PurityOfEssence]

40. Termites never sleep

and yes, they ARE Republicans...

[curse10]

42. Chevy Chase was the first drummer for Steely Dan

[kmla]

44. Those collarless suits the Beatles wore on their first US tour?

Designed by Pierre Cardin.

And Jack Ruby had VD three times.

Top that.

[Canuckistanian]

45. Light travels 11.9 inches in a nanosecond

In a vacuum.

[pagerbear]

46. The reason we stand for the Hallelujah chorus

In legend it is said that King George the whatever was in attendance at the premiere of Handel's Messiah in 1741, I believe. (Understandable since he was very popular in England as a composer of Italian-style operas.) When Georgie-boy heard the Hallelujah chorus, he was so overcome with emotion and awe at the wonders of God's work, he stood in reverence. And of course, when the kind stands, no one remains seated.

[Commendatori]

47. Elvis Presley's last leading lady in film was

Mary Tyler Moore. She was the only one he didn't sleep with.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

48. Joan Crawford had her back teeth removed

to make her cheekbones more prominent.

Ewwwwww.

[MichaelUK]

49. Anne Bowlyn

spent the last night of her life in the same room in the Tower of London as the night before her marriage.

[dorktv]

51. You mean Anne Boleyn.

And it is still illegal to screw someone other then the King in England if you are married to him I think.