Weird Facts and Trivia

[Ash]

I pride myself on my knowledge of weird facts and trivia. 
But occasionally I'll run across a bit of trivia or a fact I've never heard before.

For example, here's a weird fact that I just learned about 10 minutes ago that I did not know about:
There are about 120 dead bodies on Mt. Everest.

Yes, it's true.  Most of them are "frozen in time" because of the extremely cold weather there and still appear very much like they did on the day they died.  They still have their ropes and climbing gear attached to them.
Here's the page on it:  http://adventure.howstuffworks.com/dead-everest.htm

How about you?
Know of any weird facts or trivia?

[LilCerberus]

Hitler lost a testicle in World War 1

[Saucerman]

I'm a pretty big repository of useless information.  Makes me pretty popular for Trivia Pursuit. 

Let's see here...

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

In 1866, several hundred Irish American civil war veterans gathered in Buffalo NY, got very drunk, and invaded Canada.  The Canadian Militia rounded them up and sent them home. 

I'll have more later. 

[ghouck]

Many people think Nyquil has alcohol in it. It does, but not the kind we typically think of when we think of ingesting alcohol. It actually has TWO different form of alcohol: Propylene Glycol and Polyethylene Glycol.   

[Saucerman]

Many people think Nyquil has alcohol in it. It does, but not the kind we typically think of when we think of ingesting alcohol. It actually has TWO different form of alcohol: Propylene Glycol and Polyethylene Glycol.   

I'll have to let my roommate know.  He recently got over a horrific cold with the help of several bottles of Nyquil.

Not as funny as the former housemate who got so drunk, he drank a bottle of mouthwash and then later cursed the rest of us out for using his mouthwash. 

[indianasmith]

When Benjamin Harrison was a young medical student, he was supposed to dissect a cadaver for his advanced anatomy class. When the sheet was removed, to his horror, the body was that of his maternal grandfather, who had died a week before, and been dug up by grave robbers!  The shock was so great young Harrison abandoned the study of medicine and became a politician instead, later serving as our 23rd President.

[ER]

A family friend once lived in the 100-story John Hancock Center in Chicago. Because of Chicago's weather, people who live in the top third of the building occasionally wake up to early morning fog and cloud cover so dense they can't look out the window and tell what the weather is like, so for many years the building had a courtesy phone number set up so residents could call and find out what was actually going on outside.

[Allhallowsday]

The Punk Rock band THE RAMONES got their name by honoring PAUL McCARTNEY - who had used the pseudonym "Paul Ramone" in the very early days of THE BEATLES. 

[Raffine]

Fifi D'Orsay, who was Hollywood's perennial "Ooo-la-la!" French babe in the 30s and 40s, was Canadian - and never even visited France.

At age 57, Ronnie and Donnie Galyon are currently the world's oldest living conjoined twins. I saw on a news report the other day they weren't doing too well, though.

Bela Lugosi really was buried in his Dracula cape.

[WingedSerpent]

The creator of the comic book character Wonder Woman also invented the lie detector.

While many people use the term "Quantum Leap" to describe a great change, in physics its actually the smallest amount of change possible.

Male Angler fish are about 20 times smaller than the female.  They actually attach themselves to the female and become part of her body, even sharing circulation.

People have know the Earth was round since ancient Greece.  The myth comes from an author trying to spice up telling of the story of Christopher Columbus.

Domestic turkeys can't fly.  Wild turkeys can.

[Raffine]

What do camels, giraffes, and cats have uniquely in common?









There are only three quaduped mammals which walk by by moving the legs on one side, then the legs on the other side. All others alternate opposite front and back legs.

[Dave M]

All aphids are female, same with whiptail lizards.

The red spot on the bottom of a seagull's beak is where the baby seagulls peck when they're hungry, it makes the adult seagulls throw up.

Kangaroo Rats don't drink water.

The geoduck is neither a Geo, nor a duck.

[ER]

According to an episode of Matlock Magazine, classic radio legend Stan Matlock (think of a more liberal mid-20th century Paul Harvey) claimed Charlie Chaplin himself told him the main reason the movie industry settled in Hollywood had less to do with the area's climate and more to do with the fact that in the 1910's it was so remote there that movie stars could hide away from East Coast Treasury agents seeking back taxes and divorce attorneys looking for alimony. Until the secret got out and the industry grew, it was originally like a hidden colony for those cinema insiders who knew about it.

Shrug...

[Jim H]

According to an episode of Matlock Magazine, classic radio legend Stan Matlock (think of a more liberal mid-20th century Paul Harvey) claimed Charlie Chaplin himself told him the main reason the movie industry settled in Hollywood had less to do with the area's climate and more to do with the fact that in the 1910's it was so remote there that movie stars could hide away from East Coast Treasury agents seeking back taxes and divorce attorneys looking for alimony. Until the secret got out and the industry grew, it was originally like a hidden colony for those cinema insiders who knew about it.

Shrug...

That and they could duck into Mexico to avoid Edison's people coming after them for patent infringements.

Praying mantises are the only insects that can turn their head in the same way vertebrae do.

[BTM]

An albatross can fly even while asleep.

The son of John Wilkes Boothe SAVED one of Abraham Lincoln's son from being hit by a train years after Lincoln was assassinated.

Tampons are carried in med kits by soldiers war zones.