Random Trivia

[Conceited Ape]

Composer Jim Steinman is the only man in history to have written the #1 and #2 songs on the Billboard charts at the same time (1983, with "Total Eclipse of The Heart" at #1 for Bonnie Tyler and "Making Love Out of Nothing At All" at #2 for Air Supply).

[emabee]

An earthworm has 5 hearts. (courtesy of my 8 year old who is studying them in her SPICE class).

[albino_pygmy]

Groucho Marx ate his first bagel at the age of 81.

[mattj4226]

Bill Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe IV. He also holds the record for the longest State of the Union address at 81 minutes (even a political nerd like me couldn't listen for that long!).

[albino_pygmy]

Wow, and to think we could have had a president Blythe the 4th :P

[Conceited Ape]

The Libyan flag symbolizes green.

[peanut]

We could make this a little more interesting...

You can either post a true bit of trivia, or something you make up. Other people can call "nannies" on you (you're lying). If someone calls "nannies" on you, you have to prove you are telling the truth.

Yes?

Or, we could just contine posting random bits of trivia....


The first commercial peanut crop was grown in Virginia in the early to mid 1840's and in North Carolina beginning around 1818.

[Conceited Ape]

Wha, you don't believe me about the Libyan flag? Check it out sometime.

In all seriousness, I'm game for that. To help keep things from getting too complicated, I pledge to only contribute genuine facts (to the best of my knowledge, at least).


Charlie Chaplin once won 3rd place in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

[Cinderella2]

Mozart loved chocolate so much he wrote about it in his opera "Cosi Fan Tutte".

[peanut]

A nuclear bomb test that significantly fails to produce its estimated yield is called a fizzle.

[Conceited Ape]

The king cobra is the largest venomous snake in the world (tall enough to look you in the eye when reared up to strike), and has a much deeper "voice" than most snakes--when agitated, the hiss sounds more like the growl of a dog.

Then again, for their nasty rep, they're really not all that aggressive, and will give you plenty of chances to leave them alone (the vast majority of folks bitten by a king cobra probably deserved it).

[albino_pygmy]

The most impossible object to flush down a toilet is a ping pong ball.

[peanut]

The most impossible object to flush down a toilet is a ping pong ball.

Experience?

After being found not guilty of her husband's murder, Mary Leonard became the first woman to practice law in Oregon.

[Shelton123]

Mariah Carey has more #1 hits than Elvis. Where has our society gone?

[Keasmom]

A parrotfish makes it's own sleeping bag. It creates a bag of mucous all around itself every night to protect it from attack while sleeping.