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RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - Carl-Gen X - 08-12-2019 20:19
In 2008, two Virginia sisters found a cornflake that was shaped like the state of Illinois and sold it on eBay for $1,350. Monty Kerr, the owner of a trivia website from Austin, Texas, was the buyer and explained that he wanted the special piece of cereal for his traveling museum. "We're starting a collection of pop culture and Americana items," he told the Associated Press. "We thought this was a fantastic one."
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - Carl-Gen X - 08-12-2019 20:22
Adult cats only meow at humans, not other cats.
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - Carl-Gen X - 08-12-2019 20:24
In March 2019, the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans decided to celebrate its 125th anniversary by offering a free seven-night stay in its presidential suite, along with complimentary private dinners and spa treatments worth a whopping $15,000. But this wasn't a standard giveaway. The prize was only available to the person who returned the "most outrageous" item ever stolen from the hotel.
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 08-12-2019 22:54
You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than 2 miles away
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 08-12-2019 22:56
The speed of a computer mouse is measured in "Mickeys."
A British scientist first invented the roller-ball device in 1946 while working for the Royal Navy, but the word "mouse" didn't get coined until 1965.
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - GMach1 - 09-12-2019 14:49
4th January is World Trivia Day so I expect this place to be flooded
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - GMach1 - 09-12-2019 19:25
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
The top butterfly flight speed is 12 miles per hour. Some moths can fly 25 miles per hour!
The Brimstone butterfly (Gonepterix rhamni) has the longest lifetime of the adult butterflies: 9-10 months.
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves.
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 09-12-2019 21:28
Defeated only once in roughly 300 matches, President Abraham Lincoln was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall Of Fame in 1992.
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 09-12-2019 21:30
King Henry VIII had a “Groom of the Stool”, whose job was to monitor and assist in the King’s bowel motions.
The role remained in existence until King Edward VII abolished it in 1901.
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 09-12-2019 21:33
The Vatican Bank is the world's only bank that allows ATM users to perform transactions in Latin.