Trivia: Just post some random trivial fact - I don't care what

[LynneSin]

:D

[CO Liberal]

1. "Evian" Spelled Backwards is "Naive"

:-)

[LynneSin]

4. Enola spelled backwards is Alone

Enola was a town near my hometown. A guy I met from that town used that as a pickup line

Needless to say our relationship didn't last very long

[felonious thunk]

11. Stupid East Penn kids.

Of course, to be fair, he probably thought that approximated a deep thought for an SHS grad.

[On the Road]

12. Yes, and "Tylenol" Spelled Backwards is "Lonely T"

Also:

"Stroh's" spelled backwards is "shorts."

"Aerostar" spelled backwards is "Rat-so-rea."

[Misunderestimator]

27. Misunderestimator spelled backward is Rotamitserednusim

:D

[CO Liberal]

28. And "Radar" Spelled Backwards is "Radar"

:-)

[arbusto_baboso]

34. "Moorpark" (a town near where I live) spelled backwards....

is "Kraproom".:wtf:

It fits, too!:evilgrin:

[Misunderestimator]

42. LynneSin spelled backward is Nisennyl... sounds like a decongestant

[SheepyMcSheepster]

2. lake titikaka is the highest lake in the world

[Lucky Luciano]

3. There is more grey matter

on the tip of your tiny toe's toenail, then in all of GWB's head.

[LynneSin]

5. I thought that was fungus

:shrug:

(btw - my feet are very clean & fungus free - I practice very thorough foot care!!)

[Lucky Luciano]

16. Greymatter is in the brain. nt

[meegbear]

6. What you call corn

we call maize.

[LynneSin]

9. hun, where is your dancing condom - I loved him

he was such a cutie!!

[meegbear]

31. Were at level 2, so they knocked off some features.

[LynneSin]

54. my sig line stuff is missing too

I hope they don't go to level 3

:cry:

[mrboba1]

7. Lizard Lick and Conetoe are real places in NC

honest!

[LynneSin]

13. Intercourse, Virginville, Blue Ball & Bird in Hand are all real towns too

in Pennsylvania

[mrboba1]

22. we also have Toast,

Tobaccoville (shocker, eh?) Tar Heel (how original), Middlesex, and Cash Corner

[Xipe Totec]

8. There is a town in Mexico called

Parangaricutirimicuaro.

[NoPasaran]

58. Iraan

is a town in Texas

[Xipe Totec]

62. And Palestine, Hebron, and Moscow

Too! I love Texas place names.

[NoPasaran]

64. Also Paris, Athens, Canton and Bagdad

You can pretty much tour the world and never leave this freakin' state.

[Xipe Totec]

71. Have You Ever Slept in Comfort?

Between Alice and Victoria?

[carpetbagger]

89. Comfort TX was founded by atheists.

When the Civil War came along, they fought for the Union. There's a monument to the soldiers who were massacred for being "treue der union".

38 years passed between the town's founding and the building of the first church.

[Xipe Totec]

90. Now THAT I Didn't Know n/t

Learn something every day. Thanks!

:hi:

[GOPisEvil]

10. A spremologer collects trivia.

[Lavender Brown]

14. Eric Stoltz originally filmed Michael J. Fox's role in Back to the Future

but he was let go halfway through filming.

[Beware the Beast Man]

15. My cat's breath smells like cat food.

[BigMcLargehuge]

17. MPLS allows for label stacking to facilitate traffic engineering

[Lucky Luciano]

19. oh yea

Multi-protocol Label Switching.

[BigMcLargehuge]

21. everybody's doing it, everybody's doing it

everybody's pushing, swapping, and popping in the LSP!!!

[Book Lover]

18. 12 points to one pica

But only in PostScript do 6 picas equal one inch. In true typography (ie, metal type) 6 picas are just over one inch.

[ihaveaquestion]

20. Male Calico cats are rare - and sterile.

[Nay]

87. White cats are often born deaf.

[Misunderestimator]

23. Hemingway cats have 6 toes and are all over the place in Key West

(on each paw of course, and I think just the front ones)

[Kelli372]

24. Greediest animal

The larva of the polyphemus moth of North America consumes an amount equal to 86,000 times its own birthweight in the first 56 days of its life. In human terms, this would be equivalent to a 7 lb baby eating 273 tons of food. Calling Rush Limbaugh...

[7th_Sephiroth]

40. got ya beat, most thievous animal

verry small birds will fly into the coin return slots of soda machines and such and steal quarters from the machines

[On the Road]

25. Urumchi is the Capital of Zinjiang

in Western China.

[MrBenchley]

26. Mungo Park was the first European to see the Niger river

People said "Good job, Mungo."

[felonious thunk]

29. I have never been to the planet Jupiter

Nor have I been to Mercury.

[LynneSin]

33. That's not trivia - that's just common knowledge - none of have been there

:eyes:

[mrboba1]

36. Bullshit!

I have been to Jupiter. I felt very sluggish there, though, almost like I was carrying an extra 500 lbs on my back. And man, those storms are a killer!!

[felonious thunk]

47. That Red one scares me

That's the main reason I've never visited. Although, when I went to Venus, it was upwards of 800 degrees F! I had to take off my sweater!

[mrboba1]

49. What can I say - I'm a daredevil!

That red one is a bitch - I really wouldn't recommend it. I nearly died there.

Lemme just say - umbrellas are not a good idea!!!!

[TX-RAT]

30. Horny Toads squirt blood out of their eyes.

[AmandaRuth]

32. Lou Pinella

was the first (and only?) to be thrown out for the cycle.

[LynneSin]

35. DUer Felonious Thunk use to be my Mom's paperboy

She said he was such a nice boy too

:D

[felonious thunk]

43. I am a nice boy

Although I'm not sure if that's really a fact or simply conjecture.

[LynneSin]

46. that was my mom's opinion

although she still thinks my brother was the best paperboy ever - then again she's kinda biased towards him.

[7th_Sephiroth]

37. just off highway 69 is a town called climax (in michigan)

a gorilla's penis is 2 inches long
7th sephiroth filmed a fight scene where he really did brawl 200 people

[CO Liberal]

50. There Used to Be a State Highway 69 in New Jersey

But after so many signs were stolen back in the '60s, they changed the number to "31".


Source: http://www-ec.njit.edu/

[5thGenDemocrat]

56. Also in Michigan

On I-75, Exit 69 is Big Beaver Road.
John
Here's my favorite sports trivia: In all the 90 or so runnings of the Indianapolis 500, there has never been a driver in the field named "Smith."
Saginaw trivia: The Saginaw River flows north. It is the shortest river in Michigan (14 miles or so), but it drains the largest watershed.

[XNASA]

38. The Chicago River flows backwards.........

Instead of emptying into Lake Michigan, it is fed from Lake Michigan.

At one time it flowed into the lake but it was changed about 100 years ago when a canal was dug through to the DesPlaines River and the flow was reversed.

[Skittles]

59. I loved that part in the movie The Fugitive

during the St. Patrick's Day parade, when the river was made bright green: IF THEY CAN MAKE IT GREEN ONE DAY A YEAR, WHY CAN'T THEY MAKE IT BLUE FOR THE OTHER DAYS??? :D

[CO Liberal]

39. Damon Runyon Grew Up in Pueblo, Colorado

We have a baseball field named after him.


Source: http://www.pandora.ca/

[LanternWaste]

41. The Official and Ultimate Piece of Trivia

In ancient Rome, at many T-intersections on roads throughout the realms, a tree or notice board would have letters to be delivered, bounty notices, local edicts and even want-ads nailed up for all passers-by to see. It became common parlance to refer to these small notes of interest by calling them "Three-Ways" in reference to the intersection where they were located...

Translated into Latin, the word is Tri Via or "Trivia".

[Xipe Totec]

67. Bzzzt! Wrong!

The root of the word trivia is trivium. It comes from the seven liberal arts and sciences thought in the middle ages: Grammar Rhetoric, Logic, Arithmetic, Geometry, Music, and Astronomy. The first three were considered elementary and were called the trivium the remaining four were called the quadrivium. Simple problems could be solved using only the trivium and were therefore called trivial.


:evilgrin:

[LanternWaste]

76. Seems our sources don't agree...

Seems our sources don't agree... :)

"New World Compendium of Latin and Roman", John Rudyard, 1969, NY Press

[Xipe Totec]

82. Here Is My Source

Which sort of supports yours:

ABOUT THE LIBERAL ARTS

Based on the types of studies that were pursued in the Classical world, the Seven Liberal Arts became codified in late antiquity by such writers as Varro and Martianus Capella. In medieval times, the Seven Liberal Arts offered a canonical way of depicting the realms of higher learning.

The Liberal Arts were divided into the Trivium ("the three roads") and the Quadrivium ("the four roads").

The Trivium consisted of:

Grammar
Rhetoric
Logic
The Quadrivium consisted of:

Arithmetic -- Number in itself
Geometry -- Number in space
Music, Harmonics, or Tuning Theory -- Number in time
Astronomy or Cosmology -- Number in space and time

http://www.cosmopolis.com/villa/liberal-arts.html

[Hoping4Change]

44. Tomato seeds are the hardest seeds out there. So there.

[JohnKleeb]

45. Bernard Montegomery was an arrogant son of a bitch

[Twenty3]

48. A fusion explosion of 97.835 megatons

will result if a starship's impulse engine is overloaded.

[mrboba1]

51. I'm givin her all she's got!

[calico1]

52. Linda Hunt is the only actress

to ever win an Oscar for a movie role in which she played a man.

[kmla]

53. Pierre Cardin designed those cute little collarless suits the Beatles wore

on their first tour of America.

Top that for random and trivial!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

55. A Brazilian President commited suicide exactly 50 years ago.

Getúlio Vargas.

http://www.culturabrasil.pro.br/vargaseng.htm

[Reverend_Smitty]

57. If you were to walk from NJ to Minnesota...

without stopping, you would burn about 20 pounds of fat!

[Wickerman]

60. Neillsville, Wisconsin is home to the world's

Largest Talking Cow!



eidt - fixed link

[Butterflies]

61. Women live longer than men do

I think it's an average of 7 years.

[Xipe Totec]

63. Women Live Longer When Single

Men live longer when married.

[patcox2]

65. Fat Boy Slim was a guitarist in the Housemartins.

That one still freaks me out.

[curse10]

66. Chevy Chase was the original drummer for Steely Dan

:-)

[Gildor Inglorion]

68. The town of Plum Nelly

got its name because it's Plum out of Tennessee and Nelly out of Georgia.

[Xipe Totec]

69. In Nero's Time, The Area Code For Rome Was XIV n/t

[terrya]

70. Peter Finch is the only actor to posthumously win an Academy Award...

as Best Actor for "Network" in 1977.

[EstimatedProphet]

72. You can't sink all the way under in quicksand

unless you are carrying extra weight

[alarcojon]

73. The top of Mount Chimborazo, Ecuador

is the furthest point from the center of mass of the Earth. This is because the Earth is not a perfect sphere, but bulges at the equator.

[radwriter0555]

74. Your eyeballs never grow. They are the same size when you're born as they

they remain your entire life.

[CO Liberal]

79. Yet Your Ears and Nose Keep Growing

Which is why old men have such large ears and noses.

A young Tony Randall

Source: http://www.library.northwestern.edu/

An older Tony Randall

Source: http://www.readio.com/

[trof]

75. Gordon Setters trim their own toenails with their teeth.

Naw, not really.
Gotcha.
;-)

[CO Liberal]

77. Charles Manson Auditioned for a Part On "The Monkees"

[GoddessOfGuinness]

78. Switzerland leads the world

in the percentage of glass recycled with 89%. The U.S. is 5th at 32%.

[mongo]

80. Domestic rabbit meet is higher in protein and lower in

cholesterol than chicken or turkey - also has the lowest feed to meat ratio of any meat animal. 4lbs of feed produces 1lb of meat. If I remember correctly, for a cow it is 20lbs of feed to produce 1lb of meat.


And yes, it tastes like chicken.

[tedoll78]

81. A funny Calvin Coolidge story.

Our 30th President was known as being pretty quiet. Two reporters were discussing this, as well as a dinner at the White House that both were attending. Well, one reporter ended-up betting the other that he could get Calvin Coolidge to say more than two words to him during the dinner.

When the dinner came, the reporter whose job it was to get 3 words from the President was sure to sit close-by so that he could make his attempts. The reporter decided to try honesty as a tact, so he matter-of-factly told the President about the bet.

Upon hearing of the bet, President Coolidge turned to the reporter and quietly said, "You lose."

I love that story! :)

edited for spelling

[mr blur]

83. Only 2 actors have both received Oscars for playing the same character

Brando for playing Vito Corleone in The Godfather, and De Niro for playing Vito Corleone in Godfather 2

[tom_paine]

84. You can eat dandelions if you are starving

http://mtmt.essortment.com/aredandelion_rlrr.htm

[rbnyc]

85. 80% of women of child-bearing age...

...have enough mercury in their systems to lower their child's IQ by 5 to 7 points.

[tom_paine]

86. There is a cell line widely used in bio research that has outlived it's

creator (i.e. the lady who the cells come from) for more than 50 years.

The HeLa cell line

http://www.vaccines.plus.com/hela-50years%20on.html

[ChoralScholar]

88. Hot Springs, Arkansas

was the first federally-owned park, i.e. the first National Park.

[Xipe Totec]

91. Chester Nimitz

The American Admiral who defeated the Japanese fleet at Midway during WWII has a last name that means German in Russian.