Got Any Useless Trivia Knowledge??

Question

So do you? Weird, funny, whatever! I just wanna hear some.

One I heard the other day was...

The largest shark ever caught was over 37 feet long and weighed over 24,000 pounds. It was caught in 1930 off the coast of New Brunswick, Canada.

Answer 1

If we could shrink the Earth's population to a village of
precisely 100 people.......with all existing human ratios
remaining the same, it would look like this:
There would be 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Western
Hemisphere (North and South) and 8 Africans
51 would be female; 49 male
70 would be nonwhite; 30 white
70 would be non-Christian; 30 Christian
50% of the entire world's wealth would be in the hands of only
6 people, and all 6 would be citizens of the United States
80 would live in substandard housing
70 unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death, 1 would be near birth
Only 1 would have a college education
Only one person would own a computer!

In the kingdom of Bhutan, all citizens officially become a year
older on New Year's Day.

There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called Dildo.

During an average person's life, they will consume about 60,000
pounds of food.

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

Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of
yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were
stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up
straight staircases.

The "huddle" in football was formed due a deaf football player
who used sign language to communicate and his team didn't want
the opposition to see the signals he used and in turn huddled
around him.

Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when
they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern
military salute.

Baths equaled a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the
house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the
other men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all
the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually
lose someone in it. Hence the saying, "Don't throw the baby out
with the bath water."

Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald
Reagan.

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Answer 2

1) The Hawaiin state fish is the humu-humu-nuku-nuku-apua'a.

2) The longest word in the English language is pnuemonoultramicroscopicsilicavolcanoeconiosis (it's a lung disease contracted by inhaling very fine particles of volcanic rock).

3)The capital of Djibouti is Djibouti.

4) Spoony is a word (means gushy or enamored in a silly or sentimental way).

5) The largest alligator ever caught was 19 feet long (caught in Louisiana).

6) Jehovah is the result of a misunderstanding of the Hebrew language for the formal name of God (long story).

7) Paul Anderson holds the world record for the most weight ever lifted by a human (6,270 pounds).

8) Champagne only comes from the Champagne region of France. If it comes from anywhere else, it's called sparkling wine.

9) There are more bacteria in your mouth than all the people who have ever lived in history.

10) The reason you're safe from lightning inside a car isn't because of the tires, but because there is no electric field inside a conductor.

11) The full name for Los Angeles is El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula.

12) Homer Plessy, of the infamous Plessy v. Ferguson case, was only 1/8th black and had red hair and freckles.

13) George Washington was not the first president, it was John Bird under the Articles of Confederation (a failed precursor to the Constitution).

14) Billy Tipton, a successful jazz musician, scout master, husband, and father to 2 adopted sons, was actually a woman.

Answer 3

1) If you wear earphones for an hour, the bacteria in your ears will have increased 700-fold.
2) More than 50% of worlds population have never received or made a telephone call.
3) The Eiffel Tower in Paris weighs more than 1,000 elephants.
4) Every 5 seconds a computer somewhere in the world will be infected with a virus.
5) The worlds youngest mother and father were respectively 8 and 9 years old and lived in China in 1910.
6) A rhinocerous male can copulate with his mate for as much as 6 hours.

Answer 4

A parasitic microbe commonly found in cats might have helped shape entire human cultures by manipulating the personalities of infected individuals, according to a new study.

Kids are getting failing grades for using shorthand from online and telephone keypad instant-messaging culture. By the time these kids themselves have kids in school, can we expect a movement to embrace 'IMbonics' in the curriculum?

Answer 5

Penicillin was invented by Alexander Fleming, a Scottish scientist, in 1928.

Answer 6

The only British Prime Minister to be assassinated was Spencer Percival.
Elephants can't jump.

Answer 7

Only 1% of the the deep ocean floor has been pioneered.

Answer 8

Truly, for I can remember the actors of television shows from the fifties, sixties and seventies.

Answer 9

A toaster has arrows pointing to one slot for toasting only one piece of bread. That's because a toaster has a sensor in that side that it doesn't have in the other side. :P

Answer 10

The length between your wrist and elbow is the same size as your feet.