totally useless trivia

  • *A Viking tribe once raided England because they had run out of beer

    *Walt Disney World generates about 120,000 pounds of garbage every day.

    *Turtles can breath through their bottoms.

    *Some of the most popular lipstick shades in Renaissance England were named, Rat, Horseflesh, Turkey, Blood and Puke.

    *When Thomas Eddison died in 1941, Henry Ford captured his dying breath in a bottle.

    *Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" was the first Hollywood film that showed a toilet flushing - thereby generating many complaints.

    *It is said, grapefruit scent makes middle age women seem six years younger to men (but it does not work the other way round).

    *The average elephant produces 50lb of dung a day.

    *The dinosaur noises in Jurassic Park came from slowing down the sounds of elephants, geese and horses

    *Victorian ladies tried to enlarge their boobs by bathing in strawberries

    *During their marriage, Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton bought an electric chair for their dining room

    * The average single man is one inch shorter than the average married man

    *Disney World is bigger than the world's 5 smallest countries

    *Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor

    *A 75-year-old male driver received ten traffic tickets, drove on the wrong side of the road four times, committed four hit-and-run offenses and caused six accidents, all within 20 minutes, in McKinney, TX on 15 Oct 1966 [Worst driver: G. B. of Records]

    *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."

    *Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Shaghoopal

    *In 1935, the police in Atlantic City, New Jersey, arrested 42 men on the beach. They were cracking down on topless bathing suits worn by men.

    *During lunch breaks in Carlsbad, New Mexico no couple should engage in a sexual act while parked in their vehicle, unless their car has curtains.

    *The distance between cities are actually the distances between city halls. When you see a sign "Sheffield - 40 miles" it means it is 40 miles to the city hall of that city sign

    *Four out of every ten people who come to a party in your home will look in your bathroom cabinet

    *Francis Bacon died of hypothermia while trying to freeze a chicken by stuffing it with snow

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