What's the most amazing bit of trivia you know?

Question

Here one to start: films on UK TV are shown 1 frame per second faster than the cinema. Does not sound much but a 100 min will run at 96 mins on TV.

I know can you do better than this.

Blow me away with your facts !!!!

Answer 1

You cannot fold a piece of paper in half more than seven times - not matter how big it is.

Try it... it's fun when you're bored.

Also, every day is about 55 billionths of a second longer than the day before it. Which explains why I seem to have more free time nowadays.

The number of people alive on the earth right now is larger than the number of people that have died...ever.

It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population is drunk.

Happy easter!

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Answer 2

When you cross the equator water runs anti clockwise when emptying from a sink,.north of the equator it runs clockwise

Answer 3

The 'Judge Dredd' comic advances in real-time.

The first ever man to purchase a PS3 destroyed it in public with a sledgehammer.

The Simpsons is going to end soon (it's about time!).

The most famous religious figure in the world is Jesus Christ.

On the release day of Halo 3, over 10,000 people had 'sick days' off work.

The PS4 is scheduled for release in 2018.

Microsoft are developing a handheld Xbox console, called the 'Xbox 180'.

Arnold Swarchzeneggar is not going to be in the fourth Terminator film.

The Elder Scrolls V will be online-compatible.

Terry Pratchett has been diagnosed with a potentially-fatal illness.

The Silmarallion isn't actually a book, it's a collection of Tolkien's notes about the creation of Middle Earth.

Saw V and Saw VI are going into development.

That's all I can really think of, trivia-wise. Enjoy being enlightened by my many facts!

Answer 4

I have heard that a pigs o****m can last for thirty minutes.

IN MY NEXT LIFE I WANT TO BE A PIG.

Answer 5

a cow's tail always always always comes out of a black spot. look at any cow, and it's true :)

also, apparently, the kelloggs logo is a cockerel because "kellogg" comes from the welsh "keliogg" (or however it's spelt) which is cockerel...:) haha i don't know if this is really true though

Answer 6

A giraffes neck is so long that its arteries actually have one way valves, which are only found in the veins of other animals.  They also have he highest blood pressure of any animal (that lst bits a guess but it must be true).  Cheers.

Answer 7

My brain is stuffed with junk-knowledge, the result of a life-time of behaving like Toad of Toad-Hall when it comes to learning anything.  Just don't want to concentrate on anyone subject for too long.

What's the most amazing bit of trivia I know?  Well one of them goes like this : -

When Doctor Benjamin Franklin FRS was weighed following his untimely death at the young age of 91, he was found to weigh a monster 300 pounds.

Don't think the concept of 'diet' had entered the heads of the folk back in the Georgian era, the Age of Gluttony and the Enlightenment of Food as a source of pleasure.

Looking at some Georgian recipes, I'm not a bit surprised really.  Many seem to call for not mere bottles of this or that, but gallons.  Is there no end to this madness?  Whoever called for 2 gallons of gin to be added to a punch bowl?  Only a binge drinking Georgian.

Answer 8

10 million people are currently having s*x right now. This applies at any time in the day.

A dentist created the electric chair.

Humans and dolphins are the only animals which have s*x for pleasure.

Robert Wadlow, the world's tallest man, continued to grow even after his death.

You'll consume 8 spiders this month.

If you have eaten Easter eggs today, chances are you've eaten at least 20 beetles.

The world's oldest person in history is Jeanne Calment, who died at 122.

The hottest temperature recorded was in Al Aziziyah, Libya.

The fastest car in the world is the Ultima GTR which can go 0-60mph in 2.6 seconds.

It is often said that no word in the English dictionary rhymes with purple. This is false. Curple rhymes with purple. Chilver rhymes with silver which means a baby lamb.

The smartest lady in the world according to IQ is Marilyn Von Savant.

It would take 23 men in theory to impregnate every female on this planet.

The world's richest man is NOT Bill Gates. It is Warren Buffet and Carlos Slim.

If Bill Gates' money were to increase at this rate, he would be a trillionaire by 2024.

The cleanest country in the world is Canada.

The most peaceful country in the world in terms of number of wars fought is Switzerland.

Einstein couldn't do his laces.

A day isn't 24 hours. It is 11 hours and 56 minutes.

The world eats enough bread to fill two skyscrapers side by side.

The world's biggest house resides in Surrey, England.

The world's most expensive shirt is Pele's football shirt.

We are living in Futurama. We have progressed more in the last 200 years than we have in the previous 5000.

The world's tallest skyscraper is in Taiwan.

The Great wall of China can not be seen in outer space.

The Bible is the world's best selling book. Then comes the Guiness Book of world records.

The average American watches 5.6 hours of TV a day.

South Korea has the most internet users. Per capita, it is New Zealand.

There are more sheep than people in New Zealand and Australia.

1 in 3 people on this planet are Chinese.

Russia has the most nuclear weapons.

Britain has had the biggest empire.

Leonardo Da Vinci was g*y.

Jesus Christ has inspired more than 50 civil rights activists.

The world's most peaceful religion is Buddhism (in terms of it being affiliated with war). Christianity, Islam and Hinduism are regarded as the most violent but this carries little weight due to the sheer number of people in each respective religion.

Most Christian festivals date back to a Pagan festival.

Your more likely to die in Antartica than in the Sahara.

Jerry Springer is British.

Mankind originated from Africa.

Every 3 seconds someone dies.

Answer 9

Totally random, but here it is.  The word "posh" actually is an acronym for a cruise ship term from the early 1900's, meaning "port side out, starboard  home", which means that both ways of the journey, first class passengers would have a view of whatever sights there we're to see, such as the port they we're docking in, as opposed to only having an unending view of the ocean.  Early in the 1900's, only people who we're well off could afford first class, so the acronym came to mean something of expense or status.

Answer 10

That every single living organism passes gas!

Answer 11

diana dors and ruth ellis ( last woman to hang) appeared in a film together it was called Lady Godiva Rides Again.

spike milligan doesn't have i told you i was ill on his grave stone, it is "Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite", and additionally in English, "Love, light, peace

Zoe Wanamaker is american

james bolam ( new tricks actor) was roommates with Marc Bolan in the 60's

Answer 12

the rolls royce of whistles is the acme thunderer.

Answer 13

It is only the hairs on a gooseberry that prevent it from being a grape !

Answer 14

Hippos produce pink milk

In Britain you are more likely to be killed by a meteorite than by lightning

On a radio every crackle is a bolt of lightning somewhere in the world

Answer 15

Marvin, I think you are wrong about the two species who get pleasure from s*x.  I'm sure that there are loads more - one in particular is a kind of chimpanzee where they indulge in s*x all the time (including the very young ones)

Answer 16

The Bonobo (formerly called the Pygmy Chimpanzee) do not descriminate between gender or age when it comes to s*x.  The only sexual pairing that is taboo is between a female and her adult male offspring.

When they find a new food source or piece of territory they can become so excited that they all have s*x.

Answer 17

America has never lost a war were they used donkeys