What's the most amazing bit of trivia you know?

[nick birch]

Here one to start: films on UK TV are shown 1 frame per second faster than the cinema. Does not sound much but a 100 min will run at 96 mins on TV.

I know can you do better than this.

Blow me away with your facts !!!!
The paper is not true: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0kmaNNg7BI

but I love the drunk statistic I may add t o that one today !!!
And thw world popn is not true. It's estimated that 60 - 100 bn have ever lived. But the world popn equals all the dead people since the pyramids were built !!!

[Little Miss Helellena]

a cow's tail always always always comes out of a black spot. look at any cow, and it's true

also, apparently, the kelloggs logo is a cockerel because "kellogg" comes from the welsh "keliogg" (or however it's spelt) which is cockerel... haha i don't know if this is really true though

[Marvin the Martian]

10 million people are currently having sex right now. This applies at any time in the day.

A dentist created the electric chair.

Humans and dolphins are the only animals which have sex for pleasure.

Robert Wadlow, the world's tallest man, continued to grow even after his death.

You'll consume 8 spiders this month.

If you have eaten Easter eggs today, chances are you've eaten at least 20 beetles.


The world's oldest person in history is Jeanne Calment, who died at 122.

The hottest temperature recorded was in Al Aziziyah, Libya.

The fastest car in the world is the Ultima GTR which can go 0-60mph in 2.6 seconds.

It is often said that no word in the English dictionary rhymes with purple. This is false. Curple rhymes with purple. Chilver rhymes with silver which means a baby lamb.

The smartest lady in the world according to IQ is Marilyn Von Savant.

It would take 23 men in theory to impregnate every female on this planet.

The world's richest man is NOT Bill Gates. It is Warren Buffet and Carlos Slim.

If Bill Gates' money were to increase at this rate, he would be a trillionaire by 2024.

The cleanest country in the world is Canada.

The most peaceful country in the world in terms of number of wars fought is Switzerland.

Einstein couldn't do his laces.

A day isn't 24 hours. It is 11 hours and 56 minutes.

The world eats enough bread to fill two skyscrapers side by side.

The world's biggest house resides in Surrey, England.

The world's most expensive shirt is Pele's football shirt.

We are living in Futurama. We have progressed more in the last 200 years than we have in the previous 5000.

The world's tallest skyscraper is in Taiwan.

The Great wall of China can not be seen in outer space.

The Bible is the world's best selling book. Then comes the Guiness Book of world records.

The average American watches 5.6 hours of TV a day.

South Korea has the most internet users. Per capita, it is New Zealand.

There are more sheep than people in New Zealand and Australia.

1 in 3 people on this planet are Chinese.

Russia has the most nuclear weapons.

Britain has had the biggest empire.

Leonardo Da Vinci was gay.

Jesus Christ has inspired more than 50 civil rights activists.

The world's most peaceful religion is Buddhism (in terms of it being affiliated with war). Christianity, Islam and Hinduism are regarded as the most violent but this carries little weight due to the sheer number of people in each respective religion.

Most Christian festivals date back to a Pagan festival.

Your more likely to die in Antartica than in the Sahara.

Jerry Springer is British.

Mankind originated from Africa.

Every 3 seconds someone dies.

[Grannyjill]

Marvin, I think you are wrong about the two species who get pleasure from sex. I'm sure that there are loads more - one in particular is a kind of chimpanzee where they indulge in sex all the time (including the very young ones)

[abediv]

The Bonobo (formerly called the Pygmy Chimpanzee) do not descriminate between gender or age when it comes to sex. The only sexual pairing that is taboo is between a female and her adult male offspring.

When they find a new food source or piece of territory they can become so excited that they all have sex.

[badger]

America has never lost a war were they used donkeys

[smudgeuk9]

A giraffes neck is so long that its arteries actually have one way valves, which are only found in the veins of other animals. They also have he highest blood pressure of any animal (that lst bits a guess but it must be true). Cheers.