Weird Random Facts and Pointless Trivia You Just have to Share

honey is the only food that will never spoil. we used to eat lashings of the stuff during the war. damn nice spread on a rose petal.

Oh I love pointless, useless trivia. I find it fascinating. One piece of pointless trivia that always comes to mind for me is that a 'jiffy' is really a unit of measure. My grandmother always said, "I'll do it in a jiffy." A 'jiffy' is the name for 1/100th of a second! And a REALLY useless fact is that the swan is the only bird that has a peni$ !!!

Hello Angelwhispers, It has been interesting to read all that is shared here. I may not have that much interesting but anyway, here they are: Females outlive males in almost all biological species that have been studied. Ratio of female human centenarians to male is about 9 to 1. Female sperm whales outlive its counterpart by 30 years. The only purpose of some male species in Animal Kingdom is to reproduce, they die after mating. Testosterones determine how much male is a male, yet, it is indirectly responsible for short male life spans. 15% more boys are conceived than girls, 4% more boys are born than girls, the ratio equalizes between 25-30 years of age beyond which there are more girls than boys. Females are so precious species! :-) Baby boys are more interested in objects and baby girls are keen in faces. It is reasoned that this early difference makes women more expert in judging a facial expression than men, men make up better engineers than women, in general. By and large, Women are way better in multi-tasking than men, Women are tougher than men as far as survival is concerned! :-) Though literacy levels have increased but World average IQ is continuously dropping, though slowly. It has dropped by more than 1 point from 90.?? To 88.?? Since 1950, and by 2027 it is predicted to drop by another 1 point! :-) Females have lower IQ than males, but males cover both the upper and the lower limit i.e. the smartest and the dumbest are males, females being in between! Haha, shoot me!:-) But, seriously, I don’t put my faith in IQ. Well, there are many, many other trivial facts but I should stop!:-)

Oklahoma City has two airports named after people killed in a plane crash.

when i was in japan and read some of the translations from japanese to english it sometimes came out sounding silly..like i live in Monroe, Michigan and they made a recliner chair called a "Lazy Boy" and the Japanese don't like the term "LAZY" as to their culture this is very bad to be lazy...and the translation was weird.. just like i seen a sign in the hotel.."slot machines on fifth floor at 8 p.m._) i thought this was a casino and at 8 p.m. took all my spare yen and went to the fifth floor and all there was vending machines that were there when the cafeteria or diner was closed..duh? but i guess it was a "slot machine"

err I know some, though it's mostly facts about animals. we studied these during our biodiversity classes 1. frogs still has its reflexes and can still move even if its head is severed. 2. a jellyfish is composed of 92% water 3. owls can see color blue - other birds can't 4. goldfishes have a memory span of three seconds (so be insulted if someone calls you a goldfish hehe) 5. pigs can get sunburned (aside from humans) 6. rants can't vomit (that's why rat poisons work!) 7. Lobsters have blue blood; moths ave white blood 8. dolphins sleep with one eye open 9. Mosquitoes have 47 teeth (scary hahaha) 10. snails can sleep for 21 years animals are just so cool 8.

Did you know that bees commnicate with each other by dancing? That is how the bees that find great fields of flowers go back and do their air ballet to let the other bees know where to go. Weird and random enough for you?

1. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone taught his dog to speak. 2. Immanuel Kant, philosopher of transcendental idealism, had holes in his pockets so he could attach suspenders to his belt to keep his socks up all the best urban

Sue Angel, be glad to; here are some that I know. Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second. There are no clocks in las vegas gambling casinos. The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad Tablecloths were originally meant to be used as towels for people to wipe their hands and faces on after eating. In Iceland, tipping in a restaurant is considerd an insult. It takes glass 1 million years to decompose. A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein. Over 2500 left handed people are killed each year from using products made for right handed people. And, finally, a popular fact going around is that a ducks quack does not echo; but that was proven wrong on a British TV show called Brainiac; which is like our show Mythbusters.

Great discussion, Angel! It took me some time to think of something to write here, seeing to how so much of what I know is useless and pointless anyway. Here's what finally surfaced... 1. A bathtub full of ice cubes has more heat than a thim- ble of boiling water (see entropy). 2. Falling water ionizes the air around it (yes, this in- cludes your shower). 3. The fastest way to boil something is in a vacuum (not the cleaner!) 4. Lightening also strikes up from the cloud. 5. Lightening bolts start at the ground where there is a high content of negatively charged ions. 6. Diesel locomotives are the most popular hybrid vehicles (the diesel engine powers an electric generator for lo- comotion by electric motors). 7. H2O2, hydrogen peroxide, has been used to propel torpe- dos and rockets. 8. A troy pound, used for measuring the weight of gold, is four ounces less than a standard pound, which is 16 oz. 9. Gold does not oxidize or rust. 10. When frozen, water expands. Useless indeed, but fun!

did you know that the original cinderella story has wool shoes instead of glass ones? =)

Thanks for this post Angel! It give this Walking Ecyclopedia of Trivia a chance to share! Heres and addition to Ljeger's roach theme: Adult roaches can live without water for a month while babys can live only a week. A roach can flatten itself down to the thickness of a sheet of paper and slip under anything! Down South we have catfich that can walk. Yup they scoot along on their fins from one watering hole to another. I think they were accidentally imported from someplace else. If you cut off the head of a snake the body will try to burrow into the ground. the heart will continue to pump until sundown or you cut it up, whichever comes first. (I love snakes) More on snakes...A snake has a breathing tube that extends out so that the snake can continue to breathe when it swallows something that is very large and will take a long time to go down. We would not want the little darling to suffocate while eating now would we! Heres some stuff I learned while living on boats. It is true because I did it myself! Mayonaise will not spoil outside of the fridge for several months if you DO NOT DOUBLE DIP. This means that you use a clean utensil and do not touch that utensil to anything except the mayo. If you do then use another utensil to go back into the jar. I have never had mayo go bad since I started doing this!!! Eggs that have never been refrigerated can last for a month at room temperature if they are not fertilized. You don't want the little critters hatching on you.lol If you want to keep them longer, then you dip them in paraffin and they will last about 6 months. Welcome to sailing 101. OK I'm done for now. That was fun! Shalom~Adoniah

Thanks for posting this delightful topic. When I got it in the email I was wracking my brain and thought I'd come back to it later. However, I did manage to come up with this little tidbit. Those raised lane markers on the road (called Bots dots by the way after the person who invented them) -- when you see a blue one it means there's a fire hydrant nearby. Good for firefighters to know where to plug in the hose.