The Random Trivia Thread

[Blitz_]

Red Hot Chili Peppers are the best live act today

[Michelotto]

kilo for kilo, bone is three times as strong as reinforced concrete

[Renesis]

have you ever heard of the bathroom readers? they're these books that are published for reading in your bathroom, instead of a newspaper. they have all these useless facts, such as...

Flush away! The average toilet will last about 50 years before it has to be replaced.

Japan reportedly has far fewer flush toilets than any other modern industrialized nation.

Americans use 4.8 billion gallons of water flushing toilets each day.

BRI's favorite Barbie accessory: A pink toilet with real flushing action (but no toilet paper).

For her 40th birthday, Sophia Loren's husband gave her a 14-karat gold toilet seat.

Toilet Rock, a natural rock formation shaped like a flush toilet, is in City of Rocks, NM.

Whenever actress Joan Crawford remarried, she replaced all the toilet seats in her house.

What'd they do before that? Trains didn't have toilets until the 1850s.

American Joseph Gayetty invented toilet paper in 1857.

The Scott brothers of Philadelphia marketed the first successful toilet paper roll in 1867.

Buculets are those little bumpers on the underside of your toilet seat.

Most toilets flush in E flat; most electric razors buzz in B flat. (English razors buzz in G.)

Odds of being injured by a toilet seat in your lifetime: 1 in 6,500.

Coincidence? The Pentagon uses up 666 rolls of toilet paper on an average day.

Bathroom readers beware: Fine for leaving a public toilet unflushed in Singapore: $150.

Most-requested care package item by U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia: toilet paper.

Snot funny: The Japanese have been blowing their noses on tissue paper for over 300 years.

Tissue paper was first used to separate folds of gold-woven cloth known as "gold tissue."

Bathroom fact: The average water temperature for showers in the U.S. is 105šF.

Bathroom fact: Armadillos can be housebroken.

Bathroom fact: The average baby spends 27.5 months in diapers.

Bathroom news: Franklin Roosevelt thought up the name United Nations while in the shower.

Poll results: 7% of Americans say they have a radio in their bathroom.

If you took an average shower today, you used about 30 gallons of water.

On average, American males spend 11.4 minutes taking a shower. Females take 13 minutes.

How do you wash your pet? 3% of Americans shower with them.

Before disposable diapers? Marion Donovan made the first diaper cover out of a shower curtain.

Fill your bathtub with water 20,000 times. That much water falls over Niagara Falls every second.

Jean-Paul Marat and Agamemnon were both slain in their bathtubs by women.

Weighing 332 pounds, U.S. President William Howard Taft once trapped himself in a bathtub.

One large oak tree can drink as much as three bathtubs worth of water every day.

Looney law: In Brooklyn, it's illegal to let a dog sleep in your bathtub.

Would a water softener help? 500 Americans are injured in their bathtubs each day.

Alaska has more outhouses than any other state.

Immediately after the last episode of M*A*S*H*, New York City's sewer flow increased by 320 million gallons, the equivalent of 1 million toilets flushing simultaneously.

The Union Ironclad Monitor was the first ship to have a flush toilet.

First Flush: There are 34 bathrooms in the White House.

Four things that kill germs: 1) Sunshine; 2) Fresh air; 3) Soapy water; 4) Tears.

Supermarket news: The top 3 products for coupon redemption are cold cereal, soap, and
deodorant.

Fragrant? Fish are used to make soap.

Ooh la-la! The average French person uses two bars of soap a year.... MATRA!!

[my porsche]

have you ever heard of the bathroom readers? they're these books that are published for reading in your bathroom, instead of a newspaper. they have all these useless facts, such as...

i have three!!! i love those!

[Blue Supra]

i have a book... "the most dangerous things in everyday life" they include...
- leaves, stains, toilets, music, finland, boredom, bras, siblings, vitamins, kittens, holy water, ceiling fans, deer... amongst many many others....

[taz_rocks_miami]

Urban Legend....not true....even google says so.

LOL, I just saw a re-run of the Discovery Channel's Myth Busters just on that myth!!! They disproved it completely. It turns out that when a duck "quacks" the eco of it's quack sounds exactly the same as the original quack, hence giving the impresion that there is no eco. Did I make any sence here?

[my porsche]

^ it echos so fast is sounds at the same time?

[Esperante]

Jimi Hendrix and Buddy Holy and kurt Cobain all died at 27

[Blue Supra]

sunscreen prevents cancer go figure...

[Rockefella]

race car is spelled the same backwards and forwards <== stupid fact that everyone knows

[my porsche]

^ um...i...didnt...notice...that

haha thats called a palindrone

the simpsons is the longest current running cartoon

[Rockefella]

-Every year more than 2500 left handed people are killed from using right handed products.
-Marriage is a very expensive way to get your laundry done.
-The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
-It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
-Approximately 70% of the Earth is covered with water out of which only 1% is drinkable.
-Police in Kansas arrested a 20-year old man after he tried to pass two counterfeit $16 bills.
-Police in Pennsylvania interrogated a subject by placing a metal colander on his head and connecting it to a photocopier. Every time the police thought the suspect was lying they pressed the button to copy a page which said " Not true". The suspect believed it was a real lie detector and confessed.
-In Arkansas a man can legally beat his wife, but not more than once
a month.
-In California a vehicle without a driver may not exceed 60 miles per
hour.
-In Indiana you are not allowed to attend a movie house or theatre nor ride in a public streetcar within four hours after eating garlic.
-In Minnesota it is illegal to have sexual relations with a fish.
-Sorry, couldn't copy and paste these facts, good list nevertheless

[Esperante]

The longest palendrome I know of is as follows;

Mr. Owl ate my metal worm.

Now flip it around.

.mrow latem ym eta lwO .rM

[IBrake4Rainbows]

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open is true.

You eyes are only held in their sockets by the lightest suction, so that they can move around, when you sneeze, the pressure on your sinuses is great enough to pop your eyes out, so the bodies reaction is to close your eyelids. even if you hold your eyelids open, the muscles are strong enough to close. If they don't, your eyes will pop out, much to your horror.

More Random Facts.
Flamingos live for 80 Years, on average.
The longest sausage ever was 46Km Long.
Leeches have 32 Brains.

Oh, and from what in understand Jim Morrison also died at 27.

[my porsche]

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open is true.

You eyes are only held in their sockets by the lightest suction, so that they can move around, when you sneeze, the pressure on your sinuses is great enough to pop your eyes out, so the bodies reaction is to close your eyelids. even if you hold your eyelids open, the muscles are strong enough to close. If they don't, your eyes will pop out, much to your horror.

More Random Facts.
Flamingos live for 80 Years, on average.
The longest sausage ever was 46Km Long.
Leeches have 32 Brains.

Oh, and from what in understand Jim Morrison also died at 27.

i think so my friend wore a shirt that said "an americanpoet" had his picture, and then said 1941-1973 so, um 32 i beleive, still young though..