Uninteresting trivial facts, add yours

Post Reply New Topic

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen were born on Friday the 13th.

The number of female eggs necessary to produce the next generation of the human race could be contained within the shell of a single chicken's egg.

Mankind has accumulated enough explosive to annihilate itself 50,000 times over.

I wish i had enough nukes to kill humanity 10 times over....

I have a birthmark on my penis

I haven't been on WP for over 4 days. My brother is too addicted to Guild Wars. That's why I want a wireless router.

Boris Karloff was addicted to cigarettes. He would don white gloves before he smoked, so he wouldn't have yellowed fingers. In his last years of life, he suffered from emphysema, and was forced to act in Mexican horror movies to make money, as he was deemed too ill to be employed by Hollywood.

Human skin has about 100,000 bacteria per square centimeter. 10% of human dry weight is due to bacteria.

Early automobiles manucatured by The Morgan Company had only three wheels. It was in order to dodge a UK tax on four wheeled motor vehicles.

To survive, most birds must eat at least half their own weight in food each day.

One in four animals is a beetle.

Latin has no literal translation for "yes", "no", or "please".

The Trojan Horse was never mentioned in Homer's "Iliad", but it was mentioned in the "Odyssey".

Infrasound from car engines can make crocodiles sexually aroused.

The Pigmy Shrew - a relative of the mole - is the smallest mammal in North America. It weighs 1/14 ounce - less than a dime.

Rudolf Diesel, the inventor of the diesel engine, first tried coal dust as a replacement for gasoline. The experimental engine exploded and almost killed him. That was when he switched to using a light oil instead. Diesel fuel is oil, and in cool weather, you can actually put out a lit cigarette but poking it into a container of diesel.

The day after the video for 'Smack That' was filmed, a dead body was found underneath where the video had been shot.

One of the first cases of "the Slashdot Effect" (a webserver crashing because a sudden overwhelming spike in traffic) was because a young woman named Corri posted photos of herself in various stages of undress on her school-provided website and then posted a link to usenet.

In the world's oceans, there are: 58 species of sea grasses. Less than 1,000 species of cephalopods - squids, octopi, & pearly nautiluses. 1,000 species of sea anemones. 1,500 species of brown algae. 7,000 species of echinoderms - starfishes, sea urchins, sea cucumbers and sea lilies. 13,000 species of fishes. 50,000 species of molluscs.