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Just Adventure+ Forum - Believeable Trivia
I followed a link the other day from here to somewhere else and then clicked on another link and found this cute list of 'facts'.
I don't know how many of them to believe because they are the sort of 'fact' that none of us can actually check.
See what you think.
Trivia
Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum!
This makes me ask - how much do the adults spend?
And do they ask for a person's age when buying gum?
I mean, how would they know?
The United States consumes more oil than any other country in the World.
In 2001, the US consumed as much as the entire European Union and Japan.
More than half of women in the United States will not leave their home without makeup on.
What this really means is that a shocking 50% or one out of ever two women is prepared to be seen in public without makeup yikes!
I'll bet the % of men who do that is a LOT higher!
Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
So how on earth do 90% of the passengers get delivered to the right place?
No wonder NYC is famous for it's gridlock - the cabbies are all lost
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
So, starting what year was that?
Because it must be at least a storey or two underground by now, eh?
As of July 2005, China was the largest country in the World with a population of over 1.3 billion people (over 20% of the World's population).
We all need to pause here and consider exactly what this means.
1 in 5 people on this planet is chinese.
Anyone who thinks China isn't going to throw that sort of weight around soon is living in cuckooland.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
100% of all cheating partners are married to someone else
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
So if you want your child to stand out in kindy - pick a different name.
The world's longest Coca-Cola truck is in Sweden.
It is 79 feet long with a four-axle trailer.
We'll get Petter to check this one out for us.
In 1886, sales of "Coca-Cola" averaged only 9 drinks per day.
Every second over 7,000 Coca-Cola products are consumed.
Mexico and Iceland have the highest per capita consumption of Coca-Cola.
40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
This is not going to catch on ~ I just know it.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
And not just goldfish either!
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.
Ivinia was telling me he tried this out and it's absolutely 100% TRUE.
However the cat scratched him badly, peed all over his bed for a week afterwards and refuses to climb up into his bunk bed with him anymore on account of it not being high enough for it to land on all paws.
Cats know these things you know.
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
You have to wonder about this one.
We only need one airliner to hit a mountain and we've got 400 dead people.
How many bloody donkeys are there in the world?
On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
Some kids will do anything to get out of doing their homework
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbook can be flattened into a sheet the size ofa tennis court.
As if anyone's going to do this.
Can you imagine the glare trying to return the ball?
Neat way to out-do the neighbours though.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
All those men who like to do both simultaneously - well, they're just getting one helluva workout - no?
So, how many do you believe?
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Speaking of China, here's a shocking truth I learned yesterday:
Good old, reliable Swedish fish-sticks, a common lunch food in average homes and schools all over the country, popular with the kids and easy to prepare.
How are they made?
Well, the cod they're made from is brought out of the North Sea by Norwegian fishermen.
So they just come from our good neighbors next doors, right?
Wrong!
The raw cod is transported not east, but westwards, all the way to China, where the average worker earn a Swedish daily pay in a month.
The cod is cleaned and cut up into fillets by Chinese workers.
Then it goes onto another ship that continues westwards around the Asian continent, through the Red Sea and the Mediterranean and finally arrives in Holland, where it is then driven to France.
There, the fillets are cut up into bits, panned and pre-fried.
They are then driven by truck up to Sweden, arriving in stores having gone around the world in 80 days!
So it is actually cheaper to transport food around the entire world, through various middlemen, than to hire Swedish or Norwegian factory workers to clean and cook the fish!
Sounds zany, but that's global market economy for you.
But it makes you think: What are the environmental impacts.
Freight ships and trucks are transporting frozen fish for two and a half months around the globe back to practically where it came from.
Is this really necessary for giving the kids their favorite dish on the plate for lunch?
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Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
Something must be done about this donkey menace!
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I don't care if it's cheaper, I just don't think going on holiday by donkey is safe enough.
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~ Late Evening News Bulletin ~
There has been another donkey death in @#$kistan.
A gang of 10 donkeys were believed to have got drunk on carrot juice and gone on a late night rampage through several villages causing several pounds worth of property damage.
The pursuing police had to call off the chase several times when it became a danger to the public.
Despite this, the out-of-control donkeys managed to knock over several old people and two children as well as severely damaging crops and a police vehicle.
One of the old people has since died in hospital.
This brings the donkey death toll this year to 586.
The police would like to remind everyone that it is illegal to sell carrot juice to unaccompanied donkeys and as a result of the rising number of complaints about this situation, the government has promised to look into introducing a donkey curfew in an effort to restore law and order to the streets once more.
In the meantime, police warn that you should only approach a donkey with extreme caution - if at all.
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What I want to know is if a donkey causes a plane crash, is that labelled as a donkey accident or a plane crash accident?
So, I hear you ask: How could a donkey possibly cause a plane crash?
Simple! Put it behind the controls and see what happens...
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There are some crazy experiments Petter that attract goodly amounts of Govt.
Grant money - this sounds like one of them.
We'll expect you to win a Nobel Prize for your thesis on this.
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Caroline, like a lot of generalist trivia, and assumptions made about them, it's too easy to misconstrue our culture from this.
[Quote: author=Caroline, Supreme Goddess link=1132490495/0#0 date=1132488695]More than half of women in the United States will not leave their home without makeup on.
What this really means is that a shocking 50% or one out of ever two women is prepared to be seen in public without makeup yikes!
I'll bet the % of men who do that is a LOT higher!
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This is probably universal (men being less made up), though I find European men are much more fashionable (and are expected to be).
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Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
So how on earth do 90% of the passengers get delivered to the right place?
No wonder NYC is famous for it's gridlock - the cabbies are all lost
NY cabbies haven't always been primarilly immigrants.
That aside, it's not so difficult to learn the streets.
The immigrants transportation drivers in my area know it well.
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As of July 2005, China was the largest country in the World with a population of over 1.3 billion people (over 20% of the World's population).
We all need to pause here and consider exactly what this means.
1 in 5 people on this planet is chinese.
Anyone who thinks China isn't going to throw that sort of weight around soon is living in cuckooland.
Believe me, the world markets are very well aware of China.
Eh?
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There are reports that the donkey-related deaths are not accidents but part of a world-wide donkey terrorist conspiracy led by the enigmatic figure Assama Bin-Overladen.
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[Quote: author=snowtime link=1132490495/0#8 date=1132562236]There are reports that the donkey-related deaths are not accidents but part of a world-wide donkey terrorist conspiracy led by the enigmatic figure Assama Bin-Overladen.
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<groan>
Boy that beats the one I was thinking of, about ranchers having a hard time using cattle prods on donkeys, because it ends up being a real pain in the @ss.
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