What is the most trivial and insignificant fact that you know?

Answer 1

hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia.
is the fear of the number 666.

in Illinois university there is a course called "hamburgerology"

Answer 2

NASA wanted to make the rockets for the shuttle bigger but were unable to due to the fact that they needed to be transported by rail. American rail lines are the same width as British rail lines as the British supplied the first engines and carriages. The width of the railway lines was based on the width of the roads and byways in England which in turn were based on the width of a roman buggy. These were pulled by a lone horse so, (thanks for waiting) space travel is governed by the width of a horses **** from 2000 years ago. Worth knowing i think you'll agree

Answer 3

Thomas A Beckett should not have the "A" in the middle. Cheese is a hallucinogen. If all the people in China stood on each others shoulders, they would make a chain that reaches from here to the moon over three times

Answer 4

The elephant is the only animal with for knees. Although I doubt the elephant considers it to be trivial or insignificant.

Answer 5

Come on - each body has their moments! do not tell me you not in any respect ever get plugged in via trivial issues. in case you do not then i'm green with envy. I artwork on it and infrequently I nonetheless seize myself getting annoyed via trivial issues: talking to British gas or BT call centres, the bus not turning up at the same time as its pouring down and chilly and that i decide on to get someplace (and it really is the 0.33 time in a row it really is occurred). i do not decide on to be plagued via the elements and infrequently at the same time as it really is been gray for days on end, chilly, raining and windy it receives to me for a short at the same time as. The council spending tens of millions of kilos on redeveloping the severe street the position I have a buisness even regardless of the reality that no man or woman needed it and it isn't an progression pushing aside a good number of parking areas making it harder for patrons even regardless of the reality that corporation expenditures value a fortune - contained in the scheme of issues its trivial and its nonetheless stressful. And, are not you having a moan about people moaning about trivial issues? exceptionally trivial i ought to say.

Answer 6

When people stick two fingers up at someone they mean it as an insult. Most people don't know where the insult originates so I'll tell the story. During the middle ages England and France were almost constantly at war. During this time the most feared section of the English army was their long-bowmen. When long-bowmen were captured by the French the French would cut off their two upper fingers so that they could no longer use a longbow. Following battles where the English were victorious, battles such as Agincourt, their long-bowmen would stick two fingers up at the French position and shout insults as a message that the French were unable to chop off their fingers. This has stuck on ever since and people often stick two fingers up at someone as an insult

Answer 7

You can't touch your shoulder with the opposite hand by going over your head until you are 7.

If a balding man gets old enough, his hair will start to grow again. Unfortunately, the age when this starts is over 100, possibly about 110 or 115.

Some quotes that were never uttered by the people they are ascribed to:

"Any colour you like as long as it's black". Not spoken by Henry Ford

"Elementary, my dear Watson," not spoken by Sherlock Holmes in the original stories.

"Beam me up, Scotty," never once uttered in those exact terms by Captain Kirk in any episode of the original Star Trek TV series.

Some odd laws in the US:

It's illegal to molest a crocodile in Maine.
It's illegal to attend church in Virginia without a loaded wrifle.
In one state, it's illegal to cross the road with an ice cream in your pocket.

Sheffield Wednesday got it's name this way:

When it was first instituted, it was staffed by Sheffield's fishmongers who played and trained on Monday which was their traditional day off. At that time, they were called Sheffield Monday. For various reasons, they folded and sold everything they had to the local Ironmongers who had their traditional day off on Wednesday.

Answer 8

If a house fly were to land on the hand rail of the QE2 it would list the balance of the ship by one tenth the width of an atom.
(And a ducks quack does actually echo. The notion that it doesn't is Urban Myth)

Answer 9

Mt. McKinley (or Mt. Denali, whichever you prefer) in Alaska weighs 55,000 tons, minus the snow and the animals.

This fact was determined by a group of people at the University of Alaska in response to a question posed to a bus driver/tour guide.

Answer 10

There are more tree species in the Bukit Timah Natural Reserve (Singapore) than in the complete North America continent

Answer 11

Well, theres quite a few, such as:
* the word 'uncopyrightable' is the longest english word to not repeat any letters
*the dot on top of a lower case letter 'i' is called a tittle
*Barbie's (yes, the doll) full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts
*the skin that stretches across your elbow is called the *weenus* (dont know if that is spelt right) and no matter how hard you squeeze it, it doesnt hurt, unless you dig your nails in, then it does.
*women can not go skydiving in Florida on Sundays, unless (of course) they are married.

and yeah too many more....

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