I like to learn lots of stuff...but I like silly stuff as well..wot nonsense do you know about???

Question

true stuff...like how many bolts in the Eiffel Tower...I think its called Trivia...but its still good...isnt it???

Answer 1

The factoids on the bottom of each page in the Bathroom Readers are called running feet. Why? 'Cause that's what Uncle John felt like calling them! Many of our members have requested a whole book of running feet—and we thought that in the meantime, we'd organize them by topic and display them on this page. The topic will change every month or so just to keep you on your toes!





FAMOUS LANDMARKS


The Great Wall of China is long enough to stretch from New York City to Houston.
More than half of all the geysers in the world are in Yellowstone National Park.
Widest waterfall in the world: Victoria Falls in Africa (almost a mile wide).
The Statue of Liberty’s waist size is 35…feet.
The Empire State Building is only 265 feet taller than the Eiffel Tower.
It took 14 years to build the Brooklyn Bridge.
There’s a producing oil well beneath the Oklahoma State capitol building.
Two countries are actually smaller than New York's Central Park: Monaco and Vatican City.
Toilet Rock, a natural rock formation shaped like a flush toilet, is in City of Rocks, New Mexico.
The "World’s Largest Office Chair" is located in Anniston, Alabama. It’s 33 feet tall.
Disney World is twice the size of Manhattan.
The Great Pyramid of Giza is made of 2.3 million blocks, each weighing 2 1/2 tons.
California’s Golden Gate Bridge isn’t golden—it’s “International Orange.”
If any of the heads on Mt. Rushmore had a body, it would be nearly 500 feet tall.
Pope John XXIII installed a bowling alley in the Vatican.
Q. When did the last Roman aqueduct fall into disuse? A. It didn’t—some are still in use today.
Highest town in the U.S.: Climax, Colorado, at 11,302 feet above sea level.
World’s largest restaurant: Bangkok’s Royal Dragon (serves 5,000; waiters wear roller skates).
Reading one book a day, it would take more than 63,000 years to read every book in the U.S. Library of Congress.
The airport in Calcutta, India, is called Dum Dum.
Q. How many times was the city of Winchester, Virginia, captured during the Civil War? A. 84.
The ball that drops in Times Square every New Year’s Eve is named the “Star of Hope.”
Longest Main Street in the U.S.: The one in Island Park, Idaho. It’s more than 33 miles long.
Longest railway on Earth: the Transiberian Railway (Russia), nearly 6,000 miles long.
Deep fat: Americans eat enough ice cream each year to fill the Grand Canyon.
20 million bats live in Texas’s Bracken Cave. They eat 100 tons of insects every night.
There are 898 steps in the Washington Monument.
Saudi Arabia’s King Khalid International Airport is about one-tenth the size of Rhode Island.
Walt Disney World generates about 56 tons of trash every day.
Don’t let the name fool you: Mississippi Bay is off the coast of Yokohama, Japan.
The Great Salt Lake in Utah is six times saltier than seawater.
Oops! The Vietnam Veteran's Memorial includes the names of 38 living people.
The Battle of Waterloo wasn’t fought in Waterloo. It was fought in Pancenoit, 4 miles away.
Big Bend National Park (Texas), is home to 350 species of birds—more than any other national park.
The London Zoo reportedly employs an “entertainment director” for the animals.
Alaska's lake Iliamna is larger than the state of Connecticut.
Busiest McDonald's in the world: Pushkin Square in Moscow.
In 1999 residents of Melbourne, Australia, erected a 40-foot statue of Barbie.
Look out! Mt. Everest is moving northeast at a rate of 2.4 inches per year.
Plymouth Rock weighs about 4 tons.
World's most populous prison: San Quentin, California (5,967 prisoners).
Twice as many people visit Great Smoky Mountains Nat'l Park as visit the Grand Canyon.
There is a 242 foot-high temple in Bangkok made entirely of broken dishes.
The Pentagon was built with twice as many bathrooms as needed (because of segregation).
The Greek Parthenon has no straight lines and contains no mortar.
The 13th step of the state capitol in Denver, Colorado, is exactly one mile above sea level.

I love reading Uncle John's Bathroom Readers. You can find lots of stuff here
http://www.bathroomreader.com/pilot.asp?pg=throneroom

Answer 2

I'm 53, and as long as I can remember I've loved learning stuff. ANY stuff! So I know so much nonsense it's ridiculous! I used to sit in my room and read the 26 "Children's Illustrated Encyclopedias" from cover to cover. (Not all in one sitting, of course!) Krakatoa, Vesuvious, George Washington Carver . . . they're all old friends.

I also know some pretty cool stuff, though. I spent a month learning everything I could find about oil detection (that's not the right word, I'm on pain pills), recovery, refining and use once. I have absolutely no need for that information!

Another time, someone asked me if they should get a flu shot. I spent days and days (and by that I mean ALL day) researching influenza and vaccine research and production. Never thought I'd use that, but I was way ahead of the game when avian influenza (H5N1) started being discussed.

But I can't think of a single useless fact to mention! Must be the meds. Geeze, I really am a nerd. Oh, I know! The average American reads 5 books a year. There's one.

Keep on learning. It may not make you rich, but it's ALL good!

Answer 3

I love all the 'weird trivia' as well and I am about 50 years older than you. Did you know that if you were in the garden and a snail crawled up your leg, it would be 14 and a half minutes before you said 'Umm, that was nice'. Another nicer one: The first flight of 'Flyer', the first true airplane, with regards to height and distance, could have taken place within the fuselage of a Boeing 747'.
A Magpie is the only British bird that can hop sideways.
In the nursery rhyme, Ring a ring a roses, a pocket full of posies..
To this day, the Chief Judge at the Central Criminal Court in London carries a small bunch of violets (a posie) in memory of the stench that used to come up from the cells below his court. He still carries a black square of cloth which he used to put on his head when he sentenced someone to death which is no longer a punishment.

Answer 4

Next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temp isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be... Here are some facts about the 1500s.

Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May and were still smelling pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body Odor. Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and 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."

Answer 5

butterflies taste with their feet
a dime has 118 ridges
dreamt is the only English word that ends in mt
the winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagra Falls froze completely solid
there are 293 ways to make change for a dollar
a "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second
cats have over 100 vocal sounds while dogs have only about 10
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon
the average American spends 6 months of their whole lives waiting at redlights
all 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the 5 dollar bill
And on the Canadian 2 dollar bill, the flag flying over the parliament building is an American flag

Answer 6

Now that you mention it, I can't think of anything much but I've read tons of that stuff as well as intellectual subjects. How many sausages would be needed to reach the moon, how far your capillaries would cover if they were unravelled, how many miles of underground tunnels there are in Venice and London.
Elephants are the only animals with four knees.
Camels can carry more than elephants.
If you went to the seaside with a glass of water, threw it in the sea and came back a year later and scooped out a glassful of seawater, there is a positive probability that you would have at least one of the original atoms, because there are more atoms in a glass of water than there are glasses of water in all of the seas on the planet.
Sorry I couldn't think of others offhand but there is something fascinating about it all.

Answer 7

Yes, curiousity is a great attribute...There's so little time, however, and so much to learn...

I suppose I like things that are practical, like do to fix things, or how things work. I also like to find interesting words: for example, I like murmur because its pronunciation sounds exactly like a murmur (the meaning and sound match)...I also like the word sesquipedalian because it's a big word that means someone who uses big words (unnecessarily)...I like quean because it's pronounced the same as queen, but means a bold, impudent and brazen woman.

Answer 8

You could never tell if the Mona Lisa is smiling or not,if you take away the hair you couldnt tell is it a man ir a woman...No mather were u r the mona lisa always stares at you as in doesnt mater from ehat angle

Answer 9

* The heart of a mouse beats so quickly that it doesn't sound like it's beating at all, it sounds like its humming.
* The positioning of a horse's eyes allow it to see all for feet at once
* Months that begin on a sunday will aways have a Friday the 13th

Answer 10

Seh Seah Seh