useless trivia

1. The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
2. A snail can sleep for 3 years.
3. People photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide.
4. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
5. You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
6. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds; dogs only have about ten.
7. In every episode of "Seinfeld" there is a Superman picture or reference somewhere.
8. If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.
9. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
10. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
11. The word "maverick" came into use after Samuel Maverick, a Texan refused to brand his cattle. Eventually any unbranded calf became known as a Maverick.
12. There are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day.
13. Hedenophobic means fear of pleasure.
14.  An ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
15. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
16. A "jiffy" is the scientific name for 1/100th of a second.
17. A polar bears skin is black. Its fur is actually clear, but like snow it appears white.
18.  If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
19. A "quidnunc" is a person who is eager to know the latest news and gossip.
20. In the last 4000 years no new animals have been domesticated.
21. If you plant an apple seed, it is almost guaranteed to grow a tree of a different type of apple.
22. Broccoli and cauliflower are the only vegetables that are flowers.
23. There is no solid proof of who built the Taj Mahal.
24. In a survey of 200000 ostriches over 80 years, not one tried to bury its head in the sand.
25. You can lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
26. At the height of its power in 400 BC, the Greek city of Sparta had 25,000 citizens and 500,000 slaves.
27. In "Silence of the Lambs", Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) never blinks.
28. In 1863, Paul Hubert of Bordeaux, France, was sentenced to life in jail for murder. After 21 years, it was discovered that he was convicted of murdering himself.
29. The "if" and "then" parts of conditional ("if P then Q") statement are called the protasis (P) and apodosis (Q).
30. Only female mosquitoes bite.
31. Most household dust is made of dead skin cells.
32. A mongoose is not a goose but more like a meercat, which is not a cat but more like a prairie dog, which is not a dog but more like a ground squirrel.
33. There are 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.

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