Interesting Facts and Trivia Thread.

A lot more women tell the truth about their age and weight than people think. Don't look at me i saw it in some magazine which had more glossy images than articles.

 

Chuck Norris doesn't play the lottery, it doesn't have nearly enough bals.

 

Romney's Flip Flops.

"The Arizona immigration policy is a good model" – Mitt Romney.
"I didn't really support the Arizona immigration policy" – Mitt Romney.

“The Massachusetts healthcare plan should be a model for the nation” – Mitt Romney.
“Healthcare reform should be left to the states” – Mitt Romney.

"Let Detroit go bankrupt" -Mitt Romney.
"I'll take a lot of credit for saving the auto industry" -Mitt Romney.

“I believe Roe v Wade has gone too far.” – Mitt Romney.
“Roe v Wade has been the law for 20 years we should sustain and support it.” – Mitt Romney.

“I respect and will protect a woman’s right to choose.” – Mitt Romney.
“I never really called myself pro-choice.” – Mitt Romney.

“It was not my desire to go off and serve in Vietnam.” – Mitt Romney.
“I longed in many respects to actually be in Vietnam and represent our country there.” – Mitt Romney.

“I’m not trying to return to Reagan-Bush.” – Mitt Romney.
“Ronald Reagan is… my hero.” – Mitt Romney.

“I think the minimum wage ought to keep pace with inflation.” – Mitt Romney.
"There’s no question raising the minimum wage excessively causes a loss of jobs.” – Mitt Romney.

“I saw my father march with Martin Luther King.” – Mitt Romney.
“I did not see it with my own eyes.” – Mitt Romney.

“I would like to have campaign spending limits.” – Mitt Romney.
“The American people should be free to advocate for their candidates without burdensome limitations.” – Mitt Romney.

“I supported the assault weapon ban.” – Mitt Romney.
"I don’t support any gun control legislation.” – Mitt Romney.

“Even if you have a child two years of age, you need to go to work to have the dignity of work.” – Mitt Romney.
"I happen to believe that all moms are working moms.” – Mitt Romney.

 

It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times.

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

Moisture, not air, causes superglue to dry.

The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that it breaks the sound barrier,
the crack of the whip is actually a tiny sonic boom.

Weird Laws Trivia:

MISSOURI: In Marquette, it is illegal for more than 4 unrelated persons to occupy the same living space.

CALIFORNIA: In San Francisco, it is illegal to wipe one’s car with used underwear.

MASSACHUSETTS: In Boston, two people may not kiss in front of a church.

NORTH DAKOTA: It is illegal to lie down and fall asleep with your shoes on.

 

On October 30, 1961, the largest nuclear bomb ever detonated was on an area called Novaya Zemlya. In Russia. The bomb was aircraft deliverable and had a yield of 57 megatons.

 

In Jamaica, when you fling poo at people while asleep, it means that you're granted good luck and great fortune.

 

Some interesting facts about sex, love and the related stuff:

The average person spends 2 weeks of its life kissing.

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

Sex is biochemically no different from eating large quantities of chocolate.

A man's beard grows fastest when he anticipates sex.

Sex is the safest tranquilizer in the world. It is 10 times more effective than valium!

Sex burns 360 calories per hour.

French kissing can prevent cavities.

94% of men lie about their penis size. According to condom manufacturers, only 6% of men use extra large condoms.

The average man is 5 inches long when erect.

95% of women shave their privates and only 16% of men do.

Humans are the only ones who have sex face-to-face.

Each day, there are over 120 million sexual intercourse taking place all over the world.

Women who read romance novels have sex twice as often as those who don't.

Males, on average, think about sex every 7 seconds.

85% of men who die of heartattacks during intercourse, are found to have been cheating on their wives.

The greatest recorded number of children one mother had was 69 children.

The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

25% of women think money makes a man sexier.

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were: Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

Donald Duck comics were once banned from Finland because Donald doesn't wear pants.

The average shelf-life of a latex condom is about two years.

The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.

The word "gymnasium" comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means "to exercise naked."

Humans, bonobo monkeys, and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

Male and female rats may have sex twenty times a day.

Male bats have the highest rate of homosexuality of any mammal.

When swans go on a date, they'll put their heads together. Then they stick together for life.

Turkeys can reproduce without having sex. It's called parthenogenesis.

Snakes have two sex organs.

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

Formicophilia is the fetish for having small insects crawl on your genitals.

Ithyphallophobia is a morbid fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect penis.

 

I'm still thinking about the pig....while eating LOTS of chocolate and digging out those old romance novels.

 

^^

Sh!t, I thought I had sex on the mind a lot, but if I thought about sex every seven seconds, I would never get anything done.

 

:shock:

Any one else surprised by this?!

 

Nope!

 

Apparently you've had good luck in that arena lol

 

Welcome to my world. There's a study that says "A person’s comfort level, not gender, is the largest determinant of how often they think about sex". Definitely not a gender issue, IMO.

 

that makes some sense. Even though I always wonder why the hell poor people are the ones with the most kids.

 

Haha never considered that until now. I'm a grateful girl

 

Uh, because they can't afford birth control? :smt115 Sadly, it doesn't occur to them that raising a child is a heck of alot more expensive than birth control.

 

i'm curious what's the biggest you've ever had. Other ladies can weigh in on this too

 

A lady doesn't....er....um...."kiss" and tell.....:smt018