Even More Useless Trivia You Didn't Want To Know!

[phil]

The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

If your eyes are six feet above the surface of the ocean, the horizon will be about three statute miles away.

The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.

Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula."

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older

An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots

Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth...and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, "His name is Mudd."

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die, they need gravity to swallow.

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life"

If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The head's picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.

Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar with "Midnight Cowboy." Her entire role lasted only six minutes.

Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous transatlantic flight.

Goethe couldn't stand the sound of barking dogs and could only write if he had an apple rotting in the drawer of his desk.

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been overmixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.

Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.

The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."

A walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the background -- when they say "walla-walla" it looks like they are actually talking.

The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie.

'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

A whale's penis is called a dork.

Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.

Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.

To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs -- it will let you go instantly.

Reindeer like to eat bananas.

A group of unicorns is called a blessing.

A group of owls is called a parliament.

The phrase "sleep tight" derives from the fact that early mattresses were filled with straw and held up with rope stretched across the bedframe. A tight sleep was a comfortable sleep.

"Three dog night" (attributed to Australian Aborigines) came about because on especially cold nights these nomadic people needed three dogs (dingos, actually) to keep from freezing.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.

Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."

Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."

The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.

Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to realize that *this* was the day of the changeover.

In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."

Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."

The term, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging." Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified was to poke someone's eye out.

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.


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Yes, some have been here before. Hopefully not many of them...

Phil

[harper]

Originally posted by phil

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.



"Go." This is an imperative and a complete sentence. The subject is understood to be "you" in a command or imperative sentence.

[uni57]

Originally posted by phil
Yes, some have been here before. Hopefully not many of them...
Phil
Actually, the Bugs Bunny one was listed twice. So, you are correct! :)

Walla walla!

(I can't find the similar post from late last year. I couldn't think of ANY words to search for, and I got tired of clicking. Can someone help me? Thanks.)

uni57 (Dave)

[yoopers]

Originally posted by harper


"Go." This is an imperative and a complete sentence. The subject is understood to be "you" in a command or imperative sentence.

My cousin had one of those little cars once.

[john_childs]

Originally posted by uni57

Actually, the Bugs Bunny one was listed twice. So, you are correct! :)

Walla walla!

(I can't find the similar post from late last year. I couldn't think of ANY words to search for, and I got tired of clicking. Can someone help me? Thanks.)

uni57 (Dave)
And the Bugs Bunny one was listed in that last big list of useless trivia too. Here is a link to the previous trivia thread
<http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?&threadid=21575>

I'm glad to see that this list also includes some trivia about pigs. But it's not an area of pig physiology that I'm familiar with so I can't verify its correctness.

[andrew_carter]

Wow, I actually read all of that. Thanks Phil, that was very entertaining. Are you sure that all of those 'facts' are true? In particular...

- It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
- Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to realize that *this* was the day of the changeover.
- A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
- The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

I just find those ones hard to believe.

Also,
- Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
*What is the chance of a cat surviving the fall?
- The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
*I'm personally a big fan of antidisestablishmentarianism (the word that is)
- A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
*I also believe a group of unicycles is called a blessing.

The longest recorder flight of a chicken is 1300 jiffies.

Thanks a lot for posting those Phil.
Andrew

[Borges]

- Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to realize that *this* was the day of the changeover

I can verify this one.
It wasn't all done at one jiffy at 5pm though. During the time when the roadsigns etc. where changed only ambulances and other necessary trafic where alowed to use the roads.

[uni57]

Originally posted by john_childs
Here is a link to the previous trivia thread
<http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?&threadid=21575>

I'm glad to see that this list also includes some trivia about pigs.
Thanks for the link to the first batch.

I have learned so much about pigs since I started unicycling (click on above link).

uni57 (Dave)

[uni57]

Originally posted by uni57
Thanks for the link to the first batch.
And thanks JJuggle for bouncing it back up to the top. Very convenient. These are both great threads.

uni57 (Dave)

[nu_uni]

The longest recorded flight for a chicken was only 13 seconds.


how could this be. Do they not have strong enough muscles or do they not deam it necessary to fly? Who knows.


Logan

[uni57]

Originally posted by nu_uni
The longest recorded flight for a chicken was only 13 seconds.

how could this be. Do they not have strong enough muscles or do they not deam it necessary to fly? Who knows.
My longest ride before UPDing was 13 seconds. But I keep trying. Unlike chickens, I deem it NECESSARY to ride a unicycle.

Maybe chickens think that flying is impossible. The same way a unicycle seems "unridable" at first.

uni57 (Dave)

[phil]

Originally posted by uni57
Maybe chickens think that flying is impossible. The same way a unicycle seems "unridable" at first.
"Hey! You've lost the ground!"

Hmmm... not convinced...

Phil

[JJuggle]

Originally posted by phil
Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.Wow, what would the military be like today if they had raised their codpieces instead?

Raphael Lasar
Matawan, NJ

[jagur]

Originally posted by JJuggle
Wow, what would the military be like today if they had raised their codpieces instead?like this and the world would been a better place.have a little faith,Heal The World!

[U-Turn]

"Hey! You've lost the ground!" "Where's your other wing?" doesn't really work, does it?

[cornsyrup]

im sure if you dropped a chicken off a cliff or something, it would fly for more than 13 seconds.

[JJuggle]

Originally posted by cornsyrup
im sure if you dropped a chicken off a cliff or something, it would fly for more than 13 seconds. Or die trying.

Raphael Lasar
Matawan, NJ

[uni57]

Originally posted by cornsyrup
im sure if you dropped a chicken off a cliff or something, it would fly for more than 13 seconds. Fresh or frozen?

uni57 (Dave)

[UniBrier]

Originally posted by uni57
Fresh or frozen?From http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blthaw.htm

True story, as heard on the "Late Late Show with Tom Snyder" 3/3/97:

Scientists at NASA have developed a gun for the purpose of launching dead chickens. It is used to shoot a dead chicken at the windshield of airline jet, military jet, or the space shuttle, at that vehicle's maximum traveling velocity. The idea being, that it would simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl, and therefore determine if the windshields are strong enough to endure high-speed bird strikes.

British engineers, upon hearing of the gun, were eager to test it on the windshields of their new high-speed trains. However, upon firing the gun, the engineers watched in shock as the chicken shattered the windshield, smashed through the control console, snapped the engineer's backrest in two, and embedded itself into the back wall of the cabin.

Horrified and puzzled, the engineers sent NASA the results of the experiment, along with the designs of the windshield, and asked the NASA scientists for any suggestions.

The NASA scientists sent back a brief response: "Thaw the chicken."

[U-Turn]

if the windshields are strong enough to endure high-speed bird strikes. Yes, but what about air traffic controller strikes?

[yoopers]

I use a lot of hand lotion in the winter and like to keep a bottle in my truck, but had trouble with it freezing up. I've discovered that Corn Huskers Lotion does not freeze, so now I can have usable lotion in my vehicle when I need it the most.

[vanpaun]

Hey, you little snot, i am NOT a pig :)

[kington99]

From http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blthaw.htm

True story, as heard on the "Late Late Show with Tom Snyder" 3/3/97:

Scientists at NASA have developed a gun for the purpose of launching dead chickens. It is used to shoot a dead chicken at the windshield of airline jet, military jet, or the space shuttle, at that vehicle's maximum traveling velocity. The idea being, that it would simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl, and therefore determine if the windshields are strong enough to endure high-speed bird strikes.

British engineers, upon hearing of the gun, were eager to test it on the windshields of their new high-speed trains. However, upon firing the gun, the engineers watched in shock as the chicken shattered the windshield, smashed through the control console, snapped the engineer's backrest in two, and embedded itself into the back wall of the cabin.

Horrified and puzzled, the engineers sent NASA the results of the experiment, along with the designs of the windshield, and asked the NASA scientists for any suggestions.

The NASA scientists sent back a brief response: "Thaw the chicken."


I've heard this one through enigneering circles, and have a tale with a similar twist.

A fairly large part of oxford's engineering research is firing chickens at airplane engine blades, to simluate birdstrike. The gas gun used to fire the chicken is very loud, and used to be above the main lecture theatre, so was only run in the evenings. My brother's tutor woud load the gun and then go down the pub until the building was empty enough to fire. During a long series of successful tests they had one that completely obliterated the blade. Study of the high speed film showed that in this case the chicken was preceeded out the gun barallel by an incredibly surprised looking cat.

[catinabag1]

1 mL of the material of a neutron star would weigh 10^13 kg or 10 billion tons.

[Naomi]

im sure if you dropped a chicken off a cliff or something, it would fly for more than 13 seconds.

Chickens however, are rumoured to have a much lower IQ than cats, and as such may not have enough time to realise what was happening, and would probably therefore hit the ground before opening their wings. ;-)


Nao

[thejdw]

I've heard this one through enigneering circles, and have a tale with a similar twist.

A fairly large part of oxford's engineering research is firing chickens at airplane engine blades, to simluate birdstrike. The gas gun used to fire the chicken is very loud, and used to be above the main lecture theatre, so was only run in the evenings. My brother's tutor woud load the gun and then go down the pub until the building was empty enough to fire. During a long series of successful tests they had one that completely obliterated the blade. Study of the high speed film showed that in this case the chicken was preceeded out the gun barallel by an incredibly surprised looking cat.
Was the cat fired from the gun? did it survive?

[kington99]

Was the cat fired from the gun? did it survive?

the cat was fired at approx. 600 mph in to a sharp metal blade, i'll let you guess.

[thejdw]

the cat was fired at approx. 600 mph in to a sharp metal blade, i'll let you guess.
thers always the chance that the blade wassn't as sharp as you thought it was :)

[tistom]

the cat was fired at approx. 600 mph in to a sharp metal blade, i'll let you guess.
The cat won?

[johnfoss]

Despite being listed twice in the original list above, Mel Blanc was not allergic to carrots. He just really, really hated them. He'd do the necessary chewing and immediately spit them into a bucket he kept for that purpose. They tried other vegetables and foods, but none sounded sufficiently like carrots so he had to keep chewing them and spitting them out.

[$unidude$chad$:)]

why did he keep eating them if he had to spit them out?:confused:

[markf]

why did he keep eating them if he had to spit them out?:confused:

he did the voice of bugs bunny. i'll let you work the rest out for yourself.

[joejumps4fun]

Here's a trivia game I made: http://www.purposegames.com/game/unicycle-trivia-quiz

Let me know if any of the answers are wrong or if there is missing trivia that I should add! I want to eventually make a stand-alone version.

[1wheelwonder]

caterpillars have over 2000 muscels.

[kington99]

Here's a trivia game I made: http://www.purposegames.com/game/unicycle-trivia-quiz

Let me know if any of the answers are wrong or if there is missing trivia that I should add! I want to eventually make a stand-alone version.



Q 11, which is the preferred website? preferred by who? pretty subjective

Q14, the question runs over so you can't read the end of it

[Hazmat]

It's funny cause Q10 has 2 possible answers. :p

[tumblebug rollin]

An Old Boy from Okalhoma once told me that a litter of cats makes more noise going through a corn sheller tail first than head first.

[joejumps4fun]

Q 11, which is the preferred website? preferred by who? pretty subjective

Q14, the question runs over so you can't read the end of it

Thanks. I think the "preferred website" question I used as a filler. Even so, I still have yet to find a website that offers a better selection of unicycles than unicycle.com.

The questions are at random so I can't tell which ones you guys are talking about just by the numbers.

I'll make corrections, but please let me know which one is wrong. :)

[johnfoss]

Here's a trivia game I made: http://www.purposegames.com/game/unicycle-trivia-quiz

Let me know if any of the answers are wrong or if there is missing trivia that I should add! I want to eventually make a stand-alone version.I took the quiz, now I'm reversing through to see what you thought were the correct answers; comments follow:

Q 25: I thought Trials wheels were 19"

Q 23: "Common height of a giraffe" makes no sense. Do you have some information that indicated 5-footers outsell those other sizes? But those unicycles are only 5' tall if you ride them with the seat at the maximum height.

Q 22: There is no known "official" name for the BC/Impossible wheel. Perhaps reword to say "most common name."

Q 20 lists John Foss as "Who pioneered early BC wheel riding" but the correct answer based on those choices would be Sem Abrahams (or maybe a caveman if you count the B.C. comic strip). I saw Sem on a BC at my first unicycle convention (1980). I didn't make my own until 1986 or so. Question should be reworded: "Who was the earliest to ride a BC wheel in the unicycling community?" Professional performers used them in the 1800s.

Q 25: "A wheel consisting of only pedals is called" -- Not a wheel. Needs rewording. Like "A wheel with pedals attached and nothing else is called"

Q 16: Minnesota, presumably, has the most riders who are members of unicycle clubs. Otherwise I believe New York and probably California greatly outnumber Minnesota in number of unicycle riders. More rewording needed.

Q 15: Leonardo da Vinci is not recognized as the "comer-upper" of the unicycle. Did he design a monocycle or something? There are historical examples of people on one wheel that go way back before him in the form of art or sculpture. I'd prefer to credit the actual first *riders* of one wheel, but nobody knows who they were.

Q 13 has two correct answers, Street and Freestyle. For the answer to be Freestyle only you could say "What riding style involves riding the unicycle in a variety different ways to entertain an audience?"

Q 11 is open to opinion. People can prefer what they want. If you ask "What was the first website to sell unicycles?" that would work. Though department stores, like JC Penny, may have had unicycles before UDC, you can find a way to ask the question that points to only one correct answer.

Q 9: Most of my records have been broken over the years. For me to be the correct answer you could ask "Who has held the most unicycling records ove the years" or "Who has the most world champion titles?"

Q 8: People have gone faster than that. I can't remember the number, but the fastest believeable speed I've heard was for Christian Hoverath, riding downhill, on one of the early big unicycle tours. Something closer to 29 mph. But there is no official body recognizing either the 29 mph or 25 mph numbers.

Hope you don't mind my long-winded critique. I think I did it based on a most annoying final exam I took last fall, where the instructor similarly had not considered the multiple correct answers and other flaws in his test, but in this case it was for a grade. I'm still annoyed at his sloppiness and the inflexibility of the online presentation method he used. Yours seems to work and look great BTW. Mine had long essay answers you had to type into text boxes, and that ended up getting cut off apparently.... :(

All in all I think you need to take out some of those BC wheel questions and mix it up a bit more.

[Joe2005]

An Old Boy from Okalhoma once told me that a litter of cats makes more noise going through a corn sheller tail first than head first.
I'm not an expert on corn shellers, but did the cat's survive?

[yoopers]

An Old Boy from Okalhoma once told me that a litter of cats makes more noise going through a corn sheller tail first than head first.
Well that jes' makes sense. If you grab the squaller end first, it'll shut'em up right quick and they won't make no noise t'all.

[UniBrier]

I don't know if this is useless, but it is trivia:


An interesting piece of information....

Easter is early this year. Easter is always the 1st Sunday after
the 1st full moon after the Spring Equinox (which is March 20).
This dating of Easter is based on the lunar calendar that Hebrew
people used to identify passover, which is why it moves around
on our Roman calendar.

Based on the above information, Easter can actually be one day
earlier (March 22) that is rare.

Here's the interesting information. This year is the earliest Easter
any of us will ever see the rest of our lives! And only the most
elderly of our population have ever seen it this early (95 years
old or above). And none of us have ever, or will ever, see it a day
earlier! Here's the facts:

1) The next time Easter will be this early (March 23) will be the year
2228 (220 years from now). The last time it was this early was
1913 (so if you're 95 or older, you are the only ones that were
around for that!).

2) The next time it will be a day earlier, March 22, will be in the year
2285 (277 years from now). The last time it was on March 22 was
1818. So, no one alive today has or will ever see it any earlier than
this year!

[yoopers]

This statement came from a 60 Minutes episode about colonizing the moon.


“There is more computing power in your average cell phone today than there was on any of the Apollo spacecraft that took the astronauts to the moon.”

[dan de man]

Wow, what would the military be like today if they had raised their codpieces instead?

Raphael Lasar
Matawan, NJ
alot funnier

[MuniAddict]

After Moe's brother Curly Died he was replaced by Moe's other brother, "Shemp" Howard. His real name was Sam, but as a child, his Mother, who had a very heavy yiddish accent, made his name sound like "Shem" instead of Sam, so they started calling him "Shemp".

Btw, contrary to popular myth, Shemp, *not* curly was the original third stooge! (Moe, Larry & Shemp) But when they got their first film shorts contract, Shemp got fed up what he thought was inadequate pay, quit the stooges and was replaced by Curly, who was forced to shave his head to be in the team!

Shemp is also credited with inventing the famous "eye poke" in their vaudeville days. When Shemp accused Larry of cheating in a card game, and Shemp poked him in the eyes. Moe, watching all this, laughed so hard he fell off his chair and through his patio glass door. Larry's eyes were reportedly tearing for days after the incident.

[gkmac]

I've got several books full of trivia like this.

Coca-cola was originally green.

If the entire population of China were to walk past you in single file, the line would never end because of the country's high birthrate.

The Japanese phrase for answering the phone is "moshi moshi".

SOS does not stand for "Save Our Souls", it was chosen because the Morse Code for it ... --- ... is easy to remember.

A dentist invented the electric chair.

The average office clerk produces 2kg of waste paper each day.

It only takes 3kg of pressure to rip off your ear.

If you were completely buried in an avalanche, asphyxiation (sp?) would kill you long before the cold.

[UniBrier]

Did you know... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U)

[Bondo]

If you were completely buried in an avalanche, asphyxiation (sp?) would kill you long before the cold.

^^^This is almost, but not quite true.

It's not asphyxiation that killls you -it is breathing your own CO2. Snow is like 90% oxygen but your warm breath creates an ice layer around your mouth and the CO2 builds up in there and you die of Hypoxia. An avalanche victim has about 15 minutes to be dug up, after that the chances plummet.

Actually, the chances are you will die of trauma long before you get a chance to suffocate in the snow.

You cannot dig yourself out if you're completely buried. People who have lived through the experience say it's like being buried in concrete, you cannot move a muscle, it is even hard to breathe from the pressure on your chest.

Also - snow is an insulator, this is why you build snowcaves to survive. Snow will usually be around 32 deg's. If it's 20 below outside, your snow cave is 50 degrees warmer.

Trivai:

Loud noises will not bring down avalanches.

In 90 percent of all avalanche accidents, the victim or someone in the victim’s party triggers the slide.

Most of all the avalanches occur on slopes of 30 to 45 degrees

[thejdw]

Did you know... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U)
Good to see britain in there as the "top country" :)

[johnfoss]

Coca-cola was originally green.Source? I have several books on Coca-Cola but haven't heard that one. Modern Coke shows red if you hold it up to the light, but is otherwise brown/black. Maybe this means the early Coke was green when held up to the light?

The Japanese phrase for answering the phone is "moshi moshi".It's actually pronounced more like "mooshi mooshi." And, according to IUF founder Jack Halpern, it's a made-up phrase and doesn't mean anything outside of phone-answering. I think there is a similar story about the word "hello" but I'm not sure about that one.

[pkittle]

Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.

I remember seeing a PBS special on urban veterinary hospitals, and the reasons for cat's surviving from higher falls had to do with having enough time not to relax, but to pee. Apparently, one of the most common causes of death was the nasty effects of a full bladder bursting upon impact; when cats have enough time to pee, their internal injuries are reduced significantly. It seems that in large cities with high-rise residences, it's not uncommon for the family cat to accidentally fall out of the windows. It's doubtful, though, that many fall from such residences into corn shellers, so it's impossible to conjecture on whether cats falling from great heights are more or less noisy depending on their orientation upon entrance ...

[yoopers]

The nylon comes from the words New York and LONdon was invented by scientists from NY and London

[yoopers]

The word "gullible" is not in the Oxford English Dictionary?

[harper]

Most of all the avalanches occur on slopes of 30 to 45 degrees

Very few avalanches occur on slopes of zero degrees.

[Jethro]

Maybe they do, but they move so slow that no one really notices.

[tomblackwood]

The word "gullible" is not in the Oxford English Dictionary?
heh heh heh

You need to choose one that Average Joe is likely to have around the house, and it ain't the Oxford.

[kington99]

heh heh heh

You need to choose one that Average Joe is likely to have around the house, and it ain't the Oxford.


what's the dictionary of choice in the US? Round here the Oxford is the dictionary of reckoning.

[yoopers]

what's the dictionary of choice in the US? Round here the Oxford is the dictionary of reckoning.
Dictionaries are for old people. Who needs 'em t (http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=69895)hese days?

[kington99]

Dictionaries are for old people. Who needs 'em t (http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=69895)hese days?


well quite, have you heard the word gullible has been removed from dictionary.com?

[rob.northcott]

Coca Cola was originally green
Source? I have several books on Coca-Cola but haven't heard that one. Modern Coke shows red if you hold it up to the light, but is otherwise brown/black. Maybe this means the early Coke was green when held up to the light?
I've heard a similar story, but the version I heard said Coke would be green if they didn't put the brown colouring (caramel?) in it.

Rob

[kington99]

I've heard a similar story, but the version I heard said Coke would be green if they didn't put the brown colouring (caramel?) in it.

Rob


Snopes (http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/green.asp)

[Unreal-Wheel]

Coca-cola was originally green

Actually...


http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/green.asp

[johnfoss]

Thought so.

[Hazmat]

:D Well here are some useless trivia facts. (http://www.tk421.net/trivia/) :D