trivia

[kopend]

has any one got any new trivia/amazing facts.

[Romaz]

The bubbles in a glass of Guiness sink to the bottom instead of rising to the top. Probably just new to me.

[Trojanfarce]

A duck's quack doesn't echo

[Kos]

The only word that is pronounced and means the same, anywhere in the World?

[Buzzie]

There are more stars in the sky than there are grains of sand on Bondi Beach

[Buzzie]

Is it "Ok" Kos?

[hobbitess]

"Amen"? Kos

[mjd]

"the same"?

[barender]

and you also get a lot of 'Stars' on Bondi Beach!

[pennyb04]

apparently it is only female mosquitoes that bite!!

[sddsddean]

Trojanfarce...yes it does. You are the victim of an 'urban myth'.

The world constipation record is 102 days! (Glad I wasn't around for the 103rd!!)

[Salty]

In response to Kos....

McDonalds?
Coca Cola?
Stop?
Arrrgh!
Microsoft?

[Salty]

All polar bears are left-handed

[Salty]

If you had a rope just long enough to go round the world on the surface, and wanted to raise it off the ground one foot all round, you'd only have to extend the rope by about six feet. (2 pi x radius and all that)

[Salty]

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words

[Salty]

An ostrich's brain is smaller than its eye

[Salty]

There are no green budgies - their pigment is in fact yellow, and the green effect is due to light distortion from the feathers (similarly blue budgies are really white underneath)

[surreyman]

Traffic lights were invented before the motorcar.

In 1868 lanterns with red & green signals were used in London at busy intersections to control horse-drawn carriages and pedestrians.

It's not new but it's not very widely known.

[maggi]

Is it Taxi? Kos

[rmleake]

Bats always turn left when leaving a cave.

[rmleake]

Hull City is the only team in the top 4 English divisions that cannot be coloured in (i.e. no loops in the letters).