Anyone got any useless Trivia ?

Question

I love useless bits of information -
Snails move at 0.05mph, the average pencil writes 27,000 words...
Please can you add to my useless knowledge !!

Answer 1

1) SNAILS have 14175 teeth laid along 135 rows on their tongue.
2) A BUTTERFLY has 12,000 eyes.
3) DOLPHINS sleep with 1 eye open.
4) A BLUE WHALE can eat as much as 3 tones of food everyday, but at the same time can live without food for 6 months.
5) The EARTH has over 12,00,000 species of animals, 3,00,000 species of plants & 1,00,000 other species.
6) The fierce DINOSAUR was TYRANNOSAURS which has sixty long & sharp
teeth, used to attack & eat other dinosaurs.
7) DEMETRIO was a mammal like REPTILE with a snail on its back. This acted as a radiator to cool the body of the animal.
8) CASSOWARY is one of the dangerous BIRD, that can kill a man or animal by tearing off with its dagger like claw.
9) The SWAN has over 25,000 feathers in its body.
10) OSTRICH eats pebbles to help digestion by grinding up the ingested food.
11) POLAR BEAR can look clumsy & slow but during chase on ice, can reach 25 miles / hr of speed.
12) KIWIS are the only birds, which hunt by sense of smell.
13) ELEPHANT teeth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.
14) OWL is the only bird, which can rotate its head to 270 degrees.
In 24 Hours Average Human:

1) HEART beats 1,03,689 times.
2) LUNGS respire 23,045 times.
3) BLOOD flows 16,80,000 miles.
4) NAILS grow 0.00007 inches
5) HAIR grows 0.01715 inches
6) Take 2.9 pounds WATER (including all liquids)
7) Take of 3.25 pounds FOOD.
8) Breathe 438 cubic feet AIR.
9) Lose 85.60, BODY TEMPERATURE.
10) Produce 1.43 pints SWEAT.
11) Speak 4,800 WORDS.
12) During SLEEP move 25.4 times

Answer 2

LAW OF QUEUE:
If you change queues, the one you have left will start to move faster
than the one you are in now.

LAW OF TELEPHONE:
When you dial a wrong number, you will never get an engaged one.

LAW OF MECHANICAL REPAIR:
After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch.

LAW OF THE WORKSHOP:
Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.

LAW OF THE ALIBI:
If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat
tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

BATH THEOREM:
When the body is immersed in water, the telephone will ring.

LAW OF ENCOUNTERS:
The probability of meeting someone you know increases when you are
with someone you don't want to be seen with.

LAW OF THE RESULT:
When you try to prove to someone that a machine won't work, it will.

LAW OF BIOMECHANICS:
The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach.

THEATRE RULE:
People with the seats at the furthest from the aisle will arrive last.

LAW OF COFFEE:
As soon as you sit down for a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask
you to do something which will last until the coffee gets cold.

Answer 3

a million) The Hawaiin state fish is the humu-humu-nuku-nuku-apua'a. 2) The longest be conscious interior the English language is pnuemonoultramicroscopicsilicavolcanoeco... (it is a lung disease decreased in length by utilising respiration in very advantageous debris of volcanic rock). 3)The capital of Djibouti is Djibouti. 4) Spoony is a be conscious (ability gushy or enamored in a stupid or sentimental way). 5) the main important alligator ever caught grow to be 19 ft long (caught in Louisiana). 6) Jehovah is the effect of a faux impact of the Hebrew language for the formal call of God (long tale). 7) Paul Anderson holds the international checklist for the main weight ever lifted by utilising a human (6,270 pounds). 8) Champagne purely comes from the Champagne region of France. If it comes from everywhere else, it is noted as clean wine. 9) There are greater micro organism on your mouth than each and all the folk who've ever lived in history. 10) the clarification you're secure from lightning interior a motor vehicle isn't because of the tires, yet because of the fact there isn't any electric powered field interior a conductor. 11) the completed call for l. a. is El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora l. a. Reina de l. a. de Porciuncula. 12) Homer Plessy, of the infamous Plessy v. Ferguson case, grow to be purely a million/8th black and had crimson hair and freckles. 13) George Washington grow to be no longer the 1st president, it grow to be John chook below the Articles of Confederation (a failed precursor to the form). 14) Billy Tipton, a helpful jazz musician, scout grasp, husband, and father to 2 observed sons, grow to be surely a woman.

Answer 4

Delia Smith baked the cake on the The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed album cover

Answer 5

What is the only sport to be watched LIVE by 2 million people?
Tour de France

I learnt this at a trivia night and it has stuck in my head, great another piece of usless trivia floating around in there

Answer 6

Did you know that James Bond was named after a pretty famous ornithographer (bird studier)? Ian Fleming wanted a name that didn't stand out much, and he got what he wanted.

Answer 7

A penguin has an organ above their eyes than turn salt water into fresh water

Answer 8

The famous horror film actor, Boris Karloff, was deathly afraid of CLOWNS.

Answer 9

The 3rd youngest UK prime minister of all time was called...

The Marquis Of Rockingham!

Answer 10

A person sweats about one quart per day.

Dale Evans' horse was named Buttermilk.

Clarabell the clown died! Sniff!