I love reading these things, so I thought i'd try to compile one.
As some of you know, there is a trivia bot in the #tubearoo IRC channel. For those of you who haven't been there for a riveting round of trivia, here are some random facts that might give you an edge should you choose to get into a match.
- Eyes change colour after death, usually to greenish-brown.
- Hair grows slower at night.
- Orchids release a chemical that makes bees drunk.
- So far, 250000 Bibles have been sold in the Klingon language.
- A giant panda consumes 120 pounds of bamboo daily.
- 95% of us put our left sock on first.
- On average, a man will spend 40 seconds in a public restroom stall. It's 80 seconds for a woman.
- Coconut husks were once used as toilet paper in Hawaii.
- A single tiger can eat about six tons of meat a year (or 60,000 hamburgers).
- A mythomaniac is a person who lies constantly.
- The older a star is, the redder its colour.
- It takes about 1000 years for one drop of water to travel around the world.
- The average office worker spends 50 minutes per day looking for misplaced documents and other items.
- One third of electricity produced on earth is used to power light bulbs.
- The storage capacity of a human brain exceeds 4 terabytes.
- An ounce of platinum can be stretched 10,000 feet.
- Linen can absorb up to 20 times its weight before it will feel damp.
- German scientists made a replica of a trophy the size of one molecule.
- "Jedi" is a religion that claims 70,000 followers in Australia.
- "Vodka" is Russian for "little water."
- "Second Street" is the most common street name in the U.S.; "First Street" is the sixth.
- Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new automobiles.
- U-Haul is the world's largest advertiser in the Yellow Pages.
- There is a mushroom in Oregon that is over 2400 years old, covers 3.4 square miles and is still growing.
- If a lobster loses an eye, it grows another one.
- If a car is travelling 55 MPH, it will travel 56 feet in the time it takes for the driver to move his foot from the gas pedal to the brake pedal.
- Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.
- When Scott paper started making toilet paper, they were too embarrassed to put the company name on their product.
- Yellow homes sell faster and for more money.
- 40% of all indigestion medicine is bought by Americans.