Trivia for Squiggle #XLVII
Here is this week's installment of Trivia for Squiggle...here's to hoping life, the universe, and everything slows down a bit so I can get this trivia thing back on the twice weekly track. Be sure to check out The Visual Smorgasbord as a few things have been going on over there...
1151. A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer.
1152. If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
1153. Mr. Snuffleupagas' first name was Alyoisus.
1154. According to surveys, on average people fear spiders more than they fear death.
1155. The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It to Beaver".
1156. The average ear of corn has eight hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.
1157. The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
1158. Only 1/3 of the people that can twitch their ears can twitch only one at a time.
1159. The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey" came from when they had old cannons like ones used in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they would crack and break off... Thus the saying.
1160. Chrysler built B-29's engines that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant call Diamond Star.
1161. On the new hundred-dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.
1162. TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
1163. Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.
1164. A snail can sleep for 3 years.
1165. The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
1166. More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
1167. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
1168. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.
1169. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
1170. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
1171. Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
1172. Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
1173. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
1174. One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year.
1175. Caesar salad has nothing to do with any of the Caesar. It was first concocted in a bar in Tijuana, Mexico, in the 1920's.
"I pay the doctor bill, baby
So I'll break what I want"
GWAR, "Slap U Around"
1151. A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer.
1152. If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
1153. Mr. Snuffleupagas' first name was Alyoisus.
1154. According to surveys, on average people fear spiders more than they fear death.
1155. The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It to Beaver".
1156. The average ear of corn has eight hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.
1157. The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
1158. Only 1/3 of the people that can twitch their ears can twitch only one at a time.
1159. The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey" came from when they had old cannons like ones used in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they would crack and break off... Thus the saying.
1160. Chrysler built B-29's engines that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant call Diamond Star.
1161. On the new hundred-dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.
1162. TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
1163. Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.
1164. A snail can sleep for 3 years.
1165. The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
1166. More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
1167. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
1168. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.
1169. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
1170. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
1171. Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
1172. Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
1173. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
1174. One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year.
1175. Caesar salad has nothing to do with any of the Caesar. It was first concocted in a bar in Tijuana, Mexico, in the 1920's.
"I pay the doctor bill, baby
So I'll break what I want"
GWAR, "Slap U Around"
posted by Scott at 2:24 PM
3 Comments:
I'm sorry, Scott, but the statement that the average person eats 8 spiders in their sleep in a lifetime is not true. It was actually concocted by someone who was giving an example on how strange things can propagate on the internet. It was just supposed to be taken as one of those things, such as if I said "There's a computer virus that can cause your monitor to explode and kill you, so don't download any e-mails with the subject 'MAK3 UR P3N15 B1GGUR!'" It's not true, but somebody might think it is and then send it out to their friends.
It's somewhat ironic that her example of an exaggerated "fact" should actually be taken as fact, but there it is.
(By the by, it used to be possible for virus writers to destroy monitors by writing programs that up the refresh rate, but current monitors check that. Besides, the monitors would never explode. They just burn a little bit and then smoke comes out of them. Of course, they become useless as monitors. The only way they become lethal is if somebody throws it at you.)
Yeah, I check this shite not. I actually weed out a lot of the trivia like this, but some slip through...whether they seem just interesting or I'm not really paying attention...yup, quality first around here, folks!
HDD: Yes, there are 1150 trivial entries before this. It just goes to show you that doing work while at work doesn't run in my family. We're all slackers! (I'm kidding, of course. I'm a slacker. Scott is actually very diligent. I think...)
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