More Trivia!

[Charean]

• Peanuts are an ingredient in dynamite.

If your senses are working normally you can:

- Feel on you fingertips or face a pressure that depresses you skin .00004 inch.
- See a small candle flame from 39 miles away on a clear, dark night.
- Smell one drop of perfume diffused through a three room apartment.
- Taste .04 ounce of table salt dissolved in 530 quarts of water.
- Feel the weight of a bee’s wing falling on your cheek from less that .5 inch away.
- Distinguish among more than 300,000 different color variations.
- Gauge the direction of a sound’s origin based on a .00003 second difference in its arrival from ear to ear.

• The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagra falls froze completely solid.
• It’s impossible to get water out of a rimless tire.
• Approximately 97.35618% of all statistics are made up.
• Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
• In 1977 there were 37 Elvis impersonators in the world.■ In 1993, there were 48,000.■ At this rate, by the year 2010, 1 out of every 3 people will be an impersonator.
• It would take 7 billion particles of fog to fill a teaspoon.
• Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries do.
• The words “assassination” and “bump” were invented by Shakespeare.
• Luke Skywalkers name was changed at the last minute from Starkiller in order to make it less violent.
• There is ¼ pound of salt in every gallon of sea water.
• The USA bought Alaska from Russia for 2 cents per acre.
• In the summer, walnuts get suntanned.
• The sale of vodka makes up 10% of the Russian government’s income.
• The movie “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” was based on the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Ronald Dahl.■ The movie’s title was different because during the seventies, “Charlie” was considered a racial slur.
• Twice as many men as women fall out of hospital beds.
• Did you know that during summer time on the west coast of Norway, you can have all four seasons in one day?
• Jaw muscles are the strongest muscles in the body.■ Fifteen kilos per square centimeter.
• Pain travels through the body at 350 feet per second.
• Over 1500 left handed people die per year using products for right handed people.
• You can go to Paradise and Hell in Michigan—both are towns in that state
• Since female locusts eat their male partners after mating, it kind of makes you wonder if their any gay locusts.
• Hawaii has the largest consumption of Spam in the US.
• Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up.
• If you lock your knee while standing long enough, you will pass out.
• One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen.
• The term ‘hay fever’ originated in England, where some people suffered allergic symptoms during hay pitching time.■ When the symptoms became sever, workers often felt feverish.
• Worcestershire Sauce is basically an Anchovy ketchup.

[Mack_Attack]

Some very intresting stuff in there. Where did you dig this up at. Or do you have a phtographic memory like rain man.

[Aequitas]

Originally posted by Charean: • Approximately 97.35618% of all statistics are made up.

I guess that also includes the statistics that are stated here .

Originally posted by Charean: • Hawaii has the largest consumption of Spam in the US.

But Lioness lives in New Hampshire.

[Redblueflare]

Interesting... How can it get so cold that Niagra falls would freeze?

[Charean]

• The only remake of an Elvis Presley song ever to hit the top ten was Cheap Trick's Don't Be Cruel, which hit number 9 in 1988.
• The blond woman in the Tic Tac commercials is Mark Harmon's sister.
• Nowhere during its entire run was it stated what city was the setting for Hill Street Blues. Exteriors and "establishing shots" of buildings were shot in Chicago. Street scenes with the actors were filmed in New York. The patrol cars, which usually have their city name written on the side, simply said "Metro Police." Many of the characters had New York accents, it snowed during the winter, but it was established on more than one occassion that it was a three- to five-hour drive to Nevada.
• America's only statue of Charles Dickens graces Clark Park in Philadelphia, just off the University of Pennsylvania campus.
• No matter where you are in Australia you are never more than 1000 kilometers from the ocean.
• All owls lay white eggs.
• It takes a week to make a jelly bean.
• NASA scientists are still receiving data from Voyager even though the signal it is emitting has less energy than that emitted by a blowdrier.
• You can't tickle yourself.
• People from Manchester, England are called Mancunians.
• White cockatoos are the only parrots that can be sexed by eye color; females have a visible pupil while males have black irises.
• The University of Texas system is the third-largest landowner in the United States.
• Marvin Gardens in the Monopoly game is not spelled the same as the Marven Gardens outside of Atlantic City, NJ, which the board game is based on.
• While drug-sniffing dogs are trained to bark like crazy, go "aggressive" at the first whiff of the right powder... Bomb-sniffing dogs are trained to go "passive" lest they set off a motion sensor or a noise sensor or any number of other things that might go kablooie.
• While almost everyone knows that Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon, few know that Gene Cernan was the last man on the moon.
• Lyndon Johnson's First Family all had initials LBJ. Lyndon Baines Johnson, Lady Bird Johnson, Linda Bird Johnson and Lucy Baines Johnson. And his dog, Little Beagle Johnson.
• There are 22 stars in the Paramount movie studio logo.
• The voice that says "Hello," "You've got mail," and "Goodbye" on AOL is Elwood Eldrige, an employee.
• ■Jane Wyman (Reagan) was born Sarah Jane Fulks.
• Nancy Davis (Reagan) was born Anne Frances Robbins.
• A humpback whale's milk is 54 percent fat.
• Lucy Stone of Massachusetts is thought to be the first American woman to retain her maiden name when she married. She was a sister-in-law of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first American woman to earn an M.D.
• When wearing a Kimono Japanese women wear socks called "Tabi". The big toe of the sock is separated from the rest of the toes, like a thumb from a mitten.