Useless Trivia
jmpmo
217 Posts
Hey, I have something to totally make your day. You guessed it! AND NOW LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, IT IS TIME FOR ANOTHER ROUND OF USELESS TRIVIA! If anyone has other fun, but useless trivia hanging out in their brain, please feel free to add it to the list.
1. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
2. Pound for poun, hamburgers cost more then new cars.
3. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
4. The average life span of a major league baseball is 7 pitches.
5. A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.
6. In every episode of Seinfeld, there is a Superman somewhere.
7. In Cleveland, Ohio, it's ilegal to catch mice w/out a hunting license.
8. 35% of people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
9. The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.
10. Elephant's can't jump. Every other mammal can.
11. Five jell-o flavors that flopped: Celery, coffee, cola, apple and chocolate.
12. On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
13. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled w/out repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
14. Average age of top GM executives in 1994: 49.8
15. According to one study, keep in mind this is your tax dollars hard at work: 24% of lawns have some sort of lawn ornament in their yard.
1. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
2. Pound for poun, hamburgers cost more then new cars.
3. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
4. The average life span of a major league baseball is 7 pitches.
5. A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.
6. In every episode of Seinfeld, there is a Superman somewhere.
7. In Cleveland, Ohio, it's ilegal to catch mice w/out a hunting license.
8. 35% of people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
9. The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.
10. Elephant's can't jump. Every other mammal can.
11. Five jell-o flavors that flopped: Celery, coffee, cola, apple and chocolate.
12. On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
13. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled w/out repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
14. Average age of top GM executives in 1994: 49.8
15. According to one study, keep in mind this is your tax dollars hard at work: 24% of lawns have some sort of lawn ornament in their yard.
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Heinz 57 was named after the 57 brands of pickles Heinz used to have.
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Any form - from flies, ducks, and up to bulls.
"Sam"
Hey - if we ask our employees to do it all day every day, why shouldn't corporate staff do it too? x;-)
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Annie (yeah, so I'm a gear head)