Useless Trivial facts

Scotland's national animal is... The unicorn!

The unicorn, despite being fictional, was already being shown as a symbol of the Scottish royal family in the 1400s.
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Lisa Sparks (born October 6, 1977) is a stage name of an American pornographic film actress. Sparks is a world record holder for having had sex with the most partners in one day. She achieved this world gang bang record by having intercourse with 919 men on October 16, 2004 in Warsaw, Poland as part of the Third Annual World Gangbang Championship and Eroticon 2004.

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Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Sparxxx
 
House said:
Scotland's national animal is... The unicorn!

The unicorn, despite being fictional, was already being shown as a symbol of the Scottish royal family in the 1400s.
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Quite a few years ago, when I lived in Scotland. They were selling polished granite nodules as 'haggis eggs' to the American tourists, for the equivalent of a days pay at the time. They were continuously sold out!
 
If you go to any youtube video and click on the white background and type the numbers 1337 then you'll see everyones comments turned into 1337 speak. For those of you who don't know, 1337 (leet) speak is a wait of spelling words with numbers.
 
Mjduzane said:
If you go to any youtube video and click on the white background and type the numbers 1337 then you'll see everyones comments turned into 1337 speak. For those of you who don't know, 1337 (leet) speak is a wait of spelling words with numbers.
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That's super cool.
 
nickybaby said:
The chemical Helium is derived from Helios. It was first positively identified i the sun.

My personal fav: THe chemical Bromine comes from the greek "Bromos" which means stench of a he -goat.
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My favourite is "crapulent" - suffering from the effects of insobrietry from the Latin crapula meaning intoxication.
It would have to be the most self contained, woody and descriptive word around - almost onomatapeic.
 
This isn't a useless trivial fact but it's still pretty cool. Go to any youtube video and click pause, then type the numbers "1980" and see what happens.
 
1. Mel Blanc who did the voice of Bugs Bunny was allergic to... carrots.
2. The name of every continent on Earth ends in the same letter it starts with.
3. Koala is Aboriginal for "no drink".
4. There are more psychoanalysts per capita in Buenos Aires than any other city in the World.
5. The eyes of a donkey are positioned so that it can see all four feet at all times.
6. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
7. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
8. It's possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs. (Which is probably why so many cows are found dead outside bedroom windows in New Zealand... Think about that one.)
9. The U.S. military operates 234 golf courses.
10. Planet Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (approx).
11. China now has more English speakers than the US & Canada combined.
12. In Washington State it's illegal to carry a concealed weapon which is over 6 feet in length.
13. The shortest war in history was between England and Zanzibar in 1896. (Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.)
14. Sir Winston Churchill smoked an estimated 300,000 cigars in his lifetime.
15. Mel Gibson broke his school's record for the most punitive strappings in a week - 27.
16. Tommy Lee Jones and Al Gore were freshman roomates at Harvard.
17. Anatidaephobia is the fear that you are being watched by a duck.
18. A Czech flight attendant once fell 33,316 feet from a plane and survived.
19. Dairy products account for almost 30% of all food sold in the USA.
20. Humans share one third of their DNA with lettuce - (unless you're hopeless46, in which case it's probably more like 95%)
 
wrcmad said:
Lisa Sparks (born October 6, 1977) is a stage name of an American pornographic film actress. Sparks is a world record holder for having had sex with the most partners in one day. She achieved this world gang bang record by having intercourse with 919 men on October 16, 2004 in Warsaw, Poland as part of the Third Annual World Gangbang Championship and Eroticon 2004.

http://forums.silverstackers.com/up..._at_avn_adult_entertainment_expo_2008_exp.jpg


Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Sparxxx
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I call BS.
Pics or it didn't happen
:P
 
Translation please:

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:o
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:P
:lol:
:mad:
:cool:

Since this is trivial I thought this was the best thread.
 
Did you know that the nose mucous from a sub-species of the Indian elephant, located in Sri Lanka, is so viscous and elastic that some parasitic spiders, use it in making their webs in hard times when their own nutrition does not allow them to be able to make enough of their own web silk.
 
Holdfast said:
How do homing pigeons navigate? They follow roads!

Researchers have cracked the puzzle of how pigeons find their way home: they just follow the main roads.

Some pigeons stick so rigidly to the roads that they even fly round roundabouts before choosing the exit to lead them back to their lofts. :lol:

Animal behaviouralists at Oxford University are stunned by their findings, which follow 10 years of research into homing pigeons.
For the last 18 months they have used the latest global-positioning technology, allowing them to track the ground the birds covered to within one to four metres. :cool:

More info:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1453494/How-do-homing-pigeons-navigate-They-follow-roads.html
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And some of them are not so good at it. My cousins pigeon went for a bit of a holiday
http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/fahan_mi_shipwrecks/journals/Scientists/soabeline13.pdf
 
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