Pointless Facts Thread

[Griffin]

The little lump of flesh just forward of your ear canal, right next to your temple, is called a tragus

 

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1 in 8 people have been employed by McDonalds

 

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If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months, and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee

 

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# On average people fear spiders more than they do death
# You can't kill yourself by holding your breath

 

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# Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
# In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
# A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
# then there's Miracle Mike, the headless chicken of Fruita Colarado, who strutted around for 18 months without his head!
# A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
# Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?
# The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE
# The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
# The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animals having the most taste buds.
# Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
# A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes

 

[Griffin]

# The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated
# Elephants are the only animals that can't jump
# Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
# you can get a cow drunk by feeding it apples

 

[Griffin]

Roger Moore used to be an animator! Also Beverly D'Angelo used to paint backgrounds for Hanna-Barbera. Tim Matheson was the voice for the original Jonny Quest! Also I've heard that one of the Go-Gos former band group member ( the drummer) works for Disney. original drummer Steve ( Boom-Boom) DePace from the punk band "Flipper" is currently working as an assistant director at Warner Bros. animation.

 

[Griffin]

The first recording ever of Jon Bon Jovi was on Christmas in the Stars (Star Wars Christmas album from 1980)

 

[Griffin]

here's an amusing tidbit, Ewan McGregor's (Obi Wan in the new Star Wars movies) uncle Denis Lawson played Wedge Anitillies in the original Star Wars!

 

[Griffin]

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

 

[Griffin]

# Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

# The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses.

# No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses ;-)

# There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

# A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

# Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

# All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.

# Almonds are members of the peach family.

# Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

# There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

# In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

# The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.

# When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.

# The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

# It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the "honey month" or what we know today as the "honeymoon."

 

[Griffin]

In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's."

 

[Griffin]

Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle," is the phrase inspired by this practice.

 

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In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes...when you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. That's where the phrase, "good night, sleep tight" came from.

 

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Only 2 words in the English language contain all the vowels abstemious and facetious

 

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the smallest fish in the world is the Pandaka pygmea found in the Phillipines

 

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the trunk of an elephant could hold 6 quarts of water

 

[Griffin]

Felicity, California is the official Center of the World.

 

[Griffin]

swastika was used by American Indians, Hindus, Buddhists, Vikings, Greeks, Romans, Celts, Anglo-Saxons, Mayans, Aztecs, Persians, Christians, and neolithic tribes. There are even Jewish swastikas found in ancient synagogues side-by-side with the star of David!

 

[Griffin]

The swastika was associated with the hammer of Thor which returned to him like a boomerang, the footprints of Buddha, the emblem of Shiva, Apollo, Jupiter, and even Jesus Christ! The swastika was the first Christian symbol and is found in the catacombs in Rome. Hindus and Buddhists to this day still revere the swastika as their sacred sign. Jains make the sign of the swastika similar to the Christian sign of the cross. In the early part of the twentieth century Rudyard Kipling used the swastika as his coat-of-arms, Coca Cola made a swastika-shaped lucky watch fob, American pilots used it on their planes when they fought for the French in World War One, it was the symbol for the Ladies Home Journal sponsored Girls' Club and the Boy Scouts. A town in Ontario was named Swastika in 1911 because of a lucky gold strike.

 

[Griffin]

August 8th begins 'National Pickle Week.'

 

[Griffin]

# Most toliets flush in the key of E flat.

# Most car horns are in the key of F.

 

[Griffin]

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

 

[Griffin]

A full moon in nine times brighter than a half moon.

 

[Griffin]

Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a bellybutton.