Fascinating Facts and Trivia

Evel Knievel suffered 433 broken bones throughout his career.

Paris Syndrome is a mental disorder that leads to the sufferer having a breakdown due to France's capital not living up to expectations.

Approximately 1,000,000 dogs in the USA are named as the heirs of their owners wills.

2013 was the first year since 1987 to feature four different numbers.

A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.

There are others
A school of fish
A pod of whales
A murder of crows
A parliament of owls
A crash of rhinos or hippos
A shrewdness of apes.
A congregation of alligators.
A cauldron of bats. ...
A sloth or sleuth of bears. ...
A gang or an obstinacy of buffalo. ...
A clowder, clutter, pounce, dout, nuisance, glorying, or a glare of cats.
An army of caterpillars. ...
A caravan of camels.
And the rare one A completely useless collection of ministers!

If you yelled for over 8 and a half years, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

If you pet a cat 70 million times, you will have developed enough static electricity to light a 60-watt light bulb for one minute.

During your lifetime, you’ll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that’s the weight of about 6 elephants!

7% of Americans don’t know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem.

If you counted for 24 hours a day, it would take over 31,000 years to reach one trillion.

(04-12-2018 19:59 )Carl43a Wrote:  If you yelled for over 8 and a half years, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

You've not met my mom? Obviously...


Eon productions, who own the rights to the Bond Movie franchise; ran of course by Barbara Broccoli & her hubby, Michael G Wilson; have stated that Bond will never be portrayed by a woman.

Bastards... I quite liked the idea of kicking some Commie/Afghan ass!!

Kelly1066 for Bond .
Who will be Mr Moneypenny?