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Let's amuse ourselves with useless facts and trivia

PostPosted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 5:30 pm
by Footy Chick
If anyone is as bored as I am at work at the moment you might appreciate these fun but bloody useless facts... feel free to add your own!!


* In Israel, religious law forbids you from picking your nose on sabbath

* In China, September 20 is "love your teeth" day

* In New York City, approximately 1,600 people are bitten by other humans annually. (watch out Jimmy!!)

* One billion seconds is about 32 years

* In Lehigh, Nebraska it's against the law to sell donut holes

* In Saudi Arabia, a woman reportedly may divorce her husband if he does not keep her supplied with coffee.

* In Kentucky, it is illegal to carry ice cream in your back pocket

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

* Pittsburgh is the only city where all major sports teams have the same colors: Black and gold. (go the penguins!!)

* Your thumb is the same length as your nose

* Smoking makes it almost impossible for a male to have a natural erection and it shrinks the penis. It also reduces the mobility of sperm

PostPosted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 5:58 pm
by spell_check
I've heard about the ice cream one, but those others are new to me and are just as wacky. :roll: 8)

PostPosted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 7:13 pm
by scott
Outside the USA, Ireland is the largest software producing country in the world.

Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.

Hot water is heavier than cold.

If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.

Prior to 1900, prize fights lasted up to 100 rounds.

Four men in the history of boxing have been knocked out in the first eleven seconds of the first round.

Golf was banned in England in 1457 because it was considered a distraction from the serious pursuit of archery.

Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games.

Australian Rules football was originally designed to give cricketers something to play during the off season.

Racehorses have been known to wear out new shoes in one race.

The average ear of corn has eight-hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.

Bamboo can grow up to three feet in a 24 hour period.

A single coffee tree yields only one pound of roasted, ground coffee annually.

Oak trees do not have acorns until they are fifty years old or older.

Most vampires are described in folklore as flushed and ruddy, with swollen bodies and bloated faces. Often, they can be identified because they're sitting up in the grave.

Trivia is the Roman goddess of sorcery, hounds and the crossroads.

PostPosted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 10:52 am
by scott
Actually, I think most of that above would fall under the 'useless s**t' category.

PostPosted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 11:25 am
by Jimmy
The human head weighs 8 pounds

The guy living next door to me has a porno mo

His kids are girls, but have boys haircuts

PostPosted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 11:27 am
by Jimmy
Its illegal to look at a moose while in an aeroplane over Montana

PostPosted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 4:20 pm
by westside
silky-smooth wrote:Bamboo can grow up to three feet in a 24 hour period.


Something used to its full capacity in Japanese POW camps in World War 2. I'll let people use their imaginations.

PostPosted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 8:59 am
by Footy Chick
Jimmy wrote:Its illegal to look at a moose while in an aeroplane over Montana


Do you know this from experience Jimmy?

In Nebraska, its illegal to cross state lines with a duck on your head....

PostPosted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 9:39 am
by Booney
In Australia it should be illegal to post useless information in forums. :wink:

PostPosted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 9:54 am
by Punk Rooster
Booney wrote:In Australia it should be illegal to post useless information in forums. :wink:

& emoticons should be illegal!

PostPosted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 10:01 am
by Punk Rooster
Jimmy wrote:Its illegal to look at a moose while in an aeroplane over Montana

Falcon Chick wrote:In Nebraska, its illegal to cross state lines with a duck on your head....

No wonder the Yanks invaded Iraq! Some poor Muslim, on a pilgramage from Nebraska to Montana, had the unfortanate scenario of being weighed down with baggage, had to put his pet Duck on his head (it was tired & couldn't walk), & upon reaching Montana, thought bugger this, it's too friggin cold, hopped on a plane back to Baghdad, and happened to say (in fractured english of course) "what's that down there, a Moose?". He than had a 1/2 dozen sky marshalls pull guns on him, and send 24000 volts through him to "restore order" to the plane. He was then deported quick smart to Guantonemo Bay, where him & his pet duck are looking at a firing squad. God bless America *sniff*

PostPosted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 11:57 am
by Footy Chick
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

PostPosted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 2:19 pm
by therisingblues
When a rat yawns it gets an erection.

PostPosted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 2:21 pm
by Footy Chick
Isnt that the case with most men?

PostPosted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 2:50 pm
by Jimmy
Punk Rooster wrote:
Jimmy wrote:Its illegal to look at a moose while in an aeroplane over Montana

Falcon Chick wrote:In Nebraska, its illegal to cross state lines with a duck on your head....

No wonder the Yanks invaded Iraq! Some poor Muslim, on a pilgramage from Nebraska to Montana, had the unfortanate scenario of being weighed down with baggage, had to put his pet Duck on his head (it was tired & couldn't walk), & upon reaching Montana, thought bugger this, it's too friggin cold, hopped on a plane back to Baghdad, and happened to say (in fractured english of course) "what's that down there, a Moose?". He than had a 1/2 dozen sky marshalls pull guns on him, and send 24000 volts through him to "restore order" to the plane. He was then deported quick smart to Guantonemo Bay, where him & his pet duck are looking at a firing squad. God bless America *sniff*


serves him right :P

PostPosted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 3:02 pm
by Punk Rooster
Falcon Chick wrote:Isnt that the case with most men?

and the cause of both is the same! Actually not quite. It's the women talking makes us yawn :wink: