What is your favourite piece of trivia?

[beale]

I'm collecting them..

[MrsCheeks]

Dagwood Bumstead was married to Blondie Boopadoop and they had a son called Baby Dumpling.

[Phantaxus]

Wraith: I agree with IndieSinger. Jon Tickle conclusively proved that one false on the last series of Brainiac. programme link: http://www.skyone.co.uk/programmes/brainiac/

[MikeMikeMike]

British trains are made in Germany, where the spent more than �10,000 messing up some track so that they could recreate the great british rail experience.

[mac309]

When executed in the electric chair the blood in the head reaches boiling point. Heroine was created by the German drug company Bayer in 1898, as a safe substitute to Morphine. Hemlock is a form of Parsley.

[pixiewize]

two out of three people wonder where the other one is

[sft42]

So far at least three of the answers given are wrong.....

All these are music related..just cause I like it like that.

Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, Peter Ham (Badfinger) and Gram Parsons all died aged 27 not a good age for musicains.

In August, 2003, 754 guitarists played a ten-minute rendition of "Louie, Louie" at Cheney Stadium, in Tacoma, Washington, in what was believed to be the world's largest jam session.

The lead guitar part on the Beatles' 1965 chart topper "Ticket To Ride" was played by Paul McCartney, not George Harrison.

The Small Faces, who had a Top 20 hit in 1967 with "Itchycoo Park", really were small. All five members stood less than five feet, six inches in height. When Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood replaced the departed Steve Marriott in 1968, the word "Small" was dropped from the band's name, as the two new members stood a head taller than the others.

Felix Powell, a British Army staff sergeant, wrote the music for "Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag and Smile, Smile, Smile" in 1915 and entered it in a WWI competition for the best morale-building song. The song won first prize and has been called "perhaps the most optimistic song ever written." Powell didn't follow his own advice though...he committed suicide in 1942.

Stevie Wonder was not born blind. The blindness happened shortly afterward as a result of having received too much oxygen in the hospital incubator. Stevie spent a total of 52 days in an incubator.

[Wraith]

You know I really liked that piece of trivia about a ducks quack, shame it was wrong, my whole worlds been turned upside down now.

TRy this one instead;
Abraham Lincoln, who invented a hydraulic device for lifting ships over shoals, was the only US president ever granted a patent.

Click here for a whole site of trivia.

[Tafyta]

Did you know the eyeball does not grow and remains the same size from birth and throughout your life?

[bernardo]

No centipede has ever been found with 100 legs. One species of centipede has been found with 96 legs; all other known species of centipede have an odd number of pairs of legs.

[New Forester]

Quite a few of these are myths, not trivia. The following are definitely not true: Bats only turning left Babies not having knees (depends what you mean by knees though) The Queen owning all the swans Other snakes make nests, including the grass snake Platypus being the only poisonous mammal -- some shrews and the slow loris are too. Elephants having four knees -- their bones are arranged like other quadrupeds. The Y in rhythms is a vowel, as is the W in the Welsh word pwll. Duck's quacks -- they do echo I very much doubt if these are true: Pigs not looking up Unexplained purring -- we may not know why, but surely we know how? Everything else must be true...

[New Forester]

Oh, I hadn't seen the second page. Only one I can see wrong there -- hemlock is not a form of parsley. True hemlock is Conium maculatum. Parsley is Petroselinum crispum. They are both in the same family (Umbeliferae, now called Apiaceae), but although they look quite similar they are no more related than either is to carrot, parsnip, caraway, coriander, cow-parsley etc. There is also hemlock water-dropwort, Oenanthe crocata, which isn't parsley either. I'm sure babies' eyes are somewhat smaller than adults', but like their heads they do grow slower than the rest of them. Ten grand sounds jolly cheap for relaying a section of track... What about these: 94.31% of statistics are made up. The word "gullible" is not in the concise Oxford English Dictionary.

[beale]

Now New Forester, although I never fail to be impressed by your encyclopaedic knowledge of natural history, animal husbandry and pretty much anything outdoorsy I am not falling for the old "gullible not in the dictionary" trick! Besides I just looked it up.

[Masin]

Pigs have a corkscrew shaped penis, and no one can say thats not true coz I saw our boar Boris mating with cassie and it was very disturbing. this is also true of chinchillas. Also when pigs orgasm it lasts for 30 minites. Every snowflake is different If Bill gates $100 bill it wouldnt be worth his time to pick it up! Um those are all I can think of atm

[New Forester]

Masin - It is true about the pig's bits. If you do pig AI, you even have to have a special corkscrew bit of equipment, so presumably the female is similarly twisted. I don't know why they should be so though. It reminds me of a very witty and crude rhyme which sadly I can't remember, about a man afflicted with such an organ, who spent his life in search of an appropriately equipped woman. Having eventually found his love, not till their wedding night did he discover she had a left hand thread...

[GlasgowGal]

In the UK, if you have a statue of a man on a horse and the horse's two front legs are off the ground, the man died in battle; if one of the horse's two front legs is off the ground, the man died as a result of injuries sustained in the battle; and if both the horse's feet are on the ground, the man survived the battle and died of other causes. In any case, the man is dead!

[GlasgowGal]

RE the Queen owning all the swans ... All the swans on the Thames are owned by either The Queen or the Vintners or the dyers. However, only the Queen is allowed to EAT swan.

[sugarmags]

I read that "sequoia" is the shortest word in the english language to contain all 5 vowels. Also, stewardesses is the longest word you can type with your left hand on a QWERTY keyboard.

[che630]

Crab sticks don't contain any crab, and since 1992 have been legally obliged to be labelled 'crab flavoured sticks'.

[FTVS]

For approx 20 (from 1979) years Neptune is furthest planet from Sun when Pluto swings inside its orbit It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open Lizards tails break off as a defence mechanism and they can grow them back Jordan has no water and has to import it all No countries "own" Antartica Greenland Sharks smell of wee (and that's not the least of their woes believe me)

[Ray the DJ]

Anagrams: Mother in law Woman Hitler Eleven plus two Twelve plus one Dormitory Dirty room Trivia: The Canary Islands were not named after the canary bird. The name came from the word canine. When the islands were discovered they were populated by wild dogs. Nelson's statue in Trafalgar Square is missing the eye patch. Westward Ho! is the only place name in Britain with an exclamation mark in it. All the gold in the world, wouldn't be enough to fill the Albert Hall. In the Oxford English dictionary, 'well' has more definitions than any other word. In the canine world, apart from being the fastest, greyhounds have the best eyesight. Goats sleep with their eyes open.