Trivia for Squiggle #54
Who's ready for their weekly dose of random crap? YOU ARE! Hehehe...behold, it's this week's Trivia for Squiggle!
1326. Toto was paid $125 per week while filming the "Wizard of Oz".
1327. Fidgeting can burn about 350 calories a day.
1328. To help reduce budget deficits, several states have begun reducing the amount of food served to prison inmates. In Texas, the number of daily calories served to prisoners was cut by 300, saving the state $6,000,000 per year.
1329. The only member of the band ZZ Top without a beard has the last name Beard.
1330. Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan carries the designation M - 1, named so because it was the first paved road anywhere.
1331. Montpelier, Vermont is the only state capitol without a McDonald's.
1332. Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times.
1333. The little hole in the sink that lets the water drain out, instead of flowing over the side, is called a "porcelator."
1334. The wingspan of a Boeing 747 jet is longer than the Wright Brothers' first flight.
1335. Ted Turner owns 5% of New Mexico.
1336. The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth 2 moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel fuel that it burns.
1337. It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is "shake" and the 46th word from the last word is "spear".
1338. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
1339. 65% of Elvis impersonators are of Asian descent.
1340. More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
1341. Burt Reynolds was originally cast to be Han Solo in the first Star Wars film. He dropped out before filming.
1342. Pope John Paul II is the world's Scrabble champion in the over-70 category.
1343. Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter" in 2000.
1344. Maine has no venomous snakes.
1345. There are only three types of snakes on the island of Tasmania and all three are deadly poisonous.
1346. If you stretch a standard Slinky out flat it measures 87 feet long.
1347. The strength of early lasers was measured in Gillettes, the number of blue razor blades a given beam could puncture.
1348. The drive-through line on opening day at the McDonald's restaurant in Kuwait City, Kuwait was at times seven miles long.
1349. Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar with "Midnight Cowboy." Her entire role lasted only six minutes.
1350. There is an ATM at McMurdo Station in Antarctica, which has a winter population of 200.
Corporal Dean Portman: You know, Kid, it's funny. A couple of days ago I asked Sarge for a little pussy. The next day he brought you onto the team.
The previous post's quote was from "Resident Evil"
Red Queen = Michaela Dicker
1326. Toto was paid $125 per week while filming the "Wizard of Oz".
1327. Fidgeting can burn about 350 calories a day.
1328. To help reduce budget deficits, several states have begun reducing the amount of food served to prison inmates. In Texas, the number of daily calories served to prisoners was cut by 300, saving the state $6,000,000 per year.
1329. The only member of the band ZZ Top without a beard has the last name Beard.
1330. Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan carries the designation M - 1, named so because it was the first paved road anywhere.
1331. Montpelier, Vermont is the only state capitol without a McDonald's.
1332. Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times.
1333. The little hole in the sink that lets the water drain out, instead of flowing over the side, is called a "porcelator."
1334. The wingspan of a Boeing 747 jet is longer than the Wright Brothers' first flight.
1335. Ted Turner owns 5% of New Mexico.
1336. The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth 2 moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel fuel that it burns.
1337. It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is "shake" and the 46th word from the last word is "spear".
1338. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
1339. 65% of Elvis impersonators are of Asian descent.
1340. More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
1341. Burt Reynolds was originally cast to be Han Solo in the first Star Wars film. He dropped out before filming.
1342. Pope John Paul II is the world's Scrabble champion in the over-70 category.
1343. Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter" in 2000.
1344. Maine has no venomous snakes.
1345. There are only three types of snakes on the island of Tasmania and all three are deadly poisonous.
1346. If you stretch a standard Slinky out flat it measures 87 feet long.
1347. The strength of early lasers was measured in Gillettes, the number of blue razor blades a given beam could puncture.
1348. The drive-through line on opening day at the McDonald's restaurant in Kuwait City, Kuwait was at times seven miles long.
1349. Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar with "Midnight Cowboy." Her entire role lasted only six minutes.
1350. There is an ATM at McMurdo Station in Antarctica, which has a winter population of 200.
Corporal Dean Portman: You know, Kid, it's funny. A couple of days ago I asked Sarge for a little pussy. The next day he brought you onto the team.
The previous post's quote was from "Resident Evil"
Red Queen = Michaela Dicker
posted by Scott at 4:17 PM
1 Comments:
That's why I liked Pope John Paul II. He was cool. He was a people person. He was the kind of person people liked. (At least enough to be made an Honorary Globetrotter.) What do we have now? A pope who's often linked to Nazis for fun.
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