Pub Trivia Thread

Birds have the right of way on all Utah highways.

The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.

Dachshunds were originally bred in 1600 to hunt dachs, which is German for badgers.

Houdini's real name was Ehrich Weiss.

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

S.O.S. doesn't stand for "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls" -- It was just chosen by an 1908 international conference on Morse Code because the letters S and O were easy to remember and just about anyone could key it and read it, S =dot dot dot, O = dash dash dash..

The desk of the President of United States in the Oval Office is known as the Resolute Desk because it was constructed from the timbers of HMS Resolute which was trapped in the Arctic ice and abandoned in 1854. The desk was a gift from Queen Victoria to President Hayes in 1880 after it had been salvaged and returned to her as a gesture of peace and good will in 1856.

Technically, zebras are black with white stripes; a shaved zebra would be completely black.

Humans and giraffes have the same number of neck bones, the giraffe's neck bones are just longer.

The word avocado comes from the Aztec word ahuacate, meaning testicle.

Sarah the cheetah is a feline phenom, setting the world cheetah speed record in the 100-meter dash — twice.
Sarah lives at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, and they recently clocked her chasing a stuffed dog across a field. She did it in 6.16 seconds.
The previous record of 6.19 seconds was set by a male South African cheetah named Nyana in 2001.
A few minutes later, Sarah broke her own new world record by making the dash again in 6.13 seconds without even breaking a sweat.
Photo - Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden
To put it in perspective, the fastest human, a Jamaican sprinter named Usain Bolt, ran the 100-meter dash in 9.58 seconds.

Although people in the majority of countries of the world drive on the right side of roads, there are some fifty nations in which people drive on the left. These include England and many of the former English colonies such as Australia and New Zealand -- but not the U.S. or Canada. There are several non-English countries where people also drive on the left including Japan.

Coca-Cola contains neither coca nor cola.

Pepsi originally contained pepsin, therefore the name!

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

Please dont test this at home
Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.

The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."

The electric chair was invented by a dentist

A frog can't empty its stomach by vomiting. To empty its stomach contents, a frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.


It snowed in the Sahara desert on February 18, 1979.

For every 'normal' webpage, there are five porn pages.