what's a really cool piece of trivia you'd like to share?

Question

Seriously. Write down some really odd fact, or facts. The more the merrier!

For example, did you know that a group of crows is called a murder?

You want more trivia? Well, here it goes.

Cary Grant's real name is Archibald Leach.

Clear plastic purses were very fashionable in the 50's.

The term "TIP" comes from the signs in early coffeeshops, and the letters stood for "To Insure Promptness".

Actually there are several theories of how "tip" came to be, but the most well-documented one is the one I listed. There are others. I didn't just find it off of the internet- I researched it. Be nice, guys! This is for info sharing, not for bashing research!

Answer 1

The first bar code was on a pack of Wrigley' gum
"Rule of thumb" came from a husband being able to beat his wife with a stick, but only as long as it wasn't any bigger than his thumb.
Some of the Christian holidays came from the Pagans. ex: Sunday and Easter
A few hundred years back, they used to think the soul was located in the brain-the pineal gland.
You'd have to eat a mile of bananas to get your daily potassium solely from them.
Venus is the only planet that rotates retrograde.
I have a ton of them-I write down lil tidbits of useless info down in my book of lil tidbits of useless info-I'll get some more to you tomorrow.

Answer 2

In German, nouns have gender, darling, and the gender of the words for "boy," "guy," and "female" are male, male, and woman, however the gender of the word for "female" is neuter. Nepal's flag is the only non-quadrilateral flag interior the international - the two triangles represent the Himalayan mountains and the two substantial religions (Hinduism and Buddhism), the blue border represents peace at the same time as the purple historic past represents the two victory and the rhododendron (the national flower), and the trademarks are of the solar and the moon. Nepal no longer purely has approximately a hundred community languages (alongside with 4 indigenous sign languages) and a dense concentration of international heritage web pages, it is likewise homestead to eight of the ten maximum mountains interior the international and has over 240 peaks over 20,000 feet (6096 m.) - all in a rustic fairly better than Arkansas. regardless of being the birthplace of the Buddha, the share of Hindus in line with inhabitants is the utmost interior the international. (((seals)))

Answer 3

Here's some trivia:

1. "Tip" does NOT mean "To Insure Promptness".
2. "Rule of Thumb" does NOT have anything to do with wife beating.
3. The story about "Ship High In Transport" is just what its name implies.
4. Super bowl Sunday is NOT the biggest day of the year for violence against women.
5. A Full Moon does not make people act crazy.
6. People do NOT like to hear the truth, especially when they learn that their "trivia" isn't true.

Answer 4

* Pogonophobia is the fear of beards.
* Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, with a population of 800 and 0.44 km²
* Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never phoned his wife or his mother, they were both deaf.
* There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos. (that's pretty understandable lol)
* From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size. :(
* For beer commercials, they add liquid detergent to the beer to make it foam more.
* Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people. :(
* The longest place-name still in use is
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimau
ngahoronukupokaiwenuakitanatahu, a New Zealand hill. o_o
* The longest one-syllable word in the English language is “screeched.”

ָָETA: btw, most "random facts" sites have tons of fake ones. I found reliable sources for the ones above to make sure they are right :)

Answer 5

In the old days they used to ship fertilizer in the bottom of ships, when the manure got wet, it released methan gas. When people checked on it using candlelight, it would explode. So they stamped on the outside of the manure crates, (S.H.I.T) Ship High In Transit so that it didn't get wet.


one more-
Imagine a track one mile long and two cars racing. Car a drives 60 miles an hour for both laps. If car b drives 30 the first lap, how fast must it drive the second lap to tie car a.

Answer- It is impossible. Car A finished the race in 2 minutes. Car B finished the first lap in 2 minutes. Most people will answer 90 miles an hour, which is wrong.

Answer 6

The word QUIZ was invented by an Irish man who painted it on all of the buildings in his village. Everybody wondered what it meant. Air go, Quiz- A short test.

Coca-Cola Used to contain low amounts of Cocaine.

There is a Superman symbol in every episode of Seinfeld.

Walt Disney was not cryogenically frozen. He was cremated despite the rumors.

Answer 7

Who is the only player in baseball history to be traded for himself?

Choo Choo Coleman was traded from the New York Mets to the San Francisco Giants in the middle of the 1964 season for a player to be named later. At the end of the season, he was the player named.

Answer 8

I'd like to share the interesting fact that people do not breathe out of both nostrils at the same time. They switch off every couple of hours.

Some cool answers here.

Answer 9

1.You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
2.If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
3.More than 2500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products.
4.Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day!
5.American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad in first class.

Answer 10

When I was a kid I read that more people were killed by Donkeys in America than died in air crashes. Now that is a bit of trivia from 45 years ago!