Fun Facts...

http://thesurrealist.co.uk/trivia.pl?
Basically, click on the link and look up any topic. For instance:

US gold coins used to say 'In Literary Cabinet we trust'.
Literary Cabinet has a bifurcated penis.
Ancient Chinese artists would never paint pictures of Literary Cabinet.
If you break Literary Cabinet, you will get seven years of bad luck!
Literary Cabinet has little need for water and is capable of going for months without drinking at all.
Ostriches stick their heads in Literary Cabinet not to hide but to look for water!
Grapes explode if you put them inside Literary Cabinet!
The Church of Scientology was founded in 1953, at Washington D.C., by Literary Cabinet.
Literary Cabinet can usually be found in nests built in the webs of large spiders!
It can take Literary Cabinet several days to move just through one tree.

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Food!

1. It's bad luck for a flag to touch food.
2. Fish travel in schools, but whales travel in food.
3. The Vikings believed that the Northern lights were caused by food as it rode out to collect warriors slain in battle!
4. The book of Esther in the Bible is the only book which does not mention food.
5. Food is actually a fruit, not a vegetable!
6. Food will always turn right when leaving a cave.
7. Antarctica is the only continent without food.
8. If you don't get out of bed on the same side you got in, you will have food for the rest of the day.
9. Twenty-eight percent of Microsoft's employees are food!
10. Food has only one weakness - the colour yellow.

Weird...

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Elves!

1. Red elves at night, shepherd's delight. Red elves at morning, shepherd's warning.
2. Elves are black with white stripes, not white with black stripes.
3. The fingerprints of elves are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
4. While performing her duties as queen, Cleopatra sometimes dressed up as elves.
5. Some birds use elves to orientate themselves during migration.
6. Elveology is the study of elves.
7. The state nickname of Iowa is 'The elve state'.
8. Originally, elves could not fly.
9. The Church of Scientology was founded in 1953, at Washington D.C., by elves.
10. Lightning strikes elves over seven times every hour.

this is FUN!

Yeah, I know I already posted, but I couldn't resist ... this is just TOO hilarious to miss

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Marilyn Monroe!

1. Marie Antoinette never said 'let them eat cake' - this is a mistranslation of 'let them eat Marilyn Monroe'.
2. If a snake is born with two heads, the heads will fight over who gets Marilyn Monroe!
3. Scientists believe that Marilyn Monroe began billions of years ago as an enormous ball of dust and gas.
4. The most dangerous form of Marilyn Monroe is the bicycle!
5. The military salute is a motion that evolved from medieval times, when knights in armour raised their visors to reveal Marilyn Monroe.
6. Only 55 percent of Americans know that the sun is made of Marilyn Monroe.
7. You should always store Marilyn Monroe in an airtight container in the fridge.
8. Marilyn Monroe is often used in place of milk in food photography, because milk goes soggy more quickly than Marilyn Monroe.
9. Marilyn Monroe can taste with her feet!
10. Marilyn Monroe has four noses.

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Books!

1. If you don't get out of bed on the same side you got in, you will have books for the rest of the day.
2. Fish travel in schools, but whales travel in books.
3. When provoked, books will swivel the tip of its abdomen and shoot a jet of boiling chemicals at its attacker.
4. A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but books can not.
5. If books was life size, it would stand 7 ft 2 inches tall and have a neck twice the size of a human.
6. A bride should wear something old, something new, something borrowed, and books!
7. While sleeping, fifteen percent of men snore, and ten percent grind their books!
8. South Australia was the first place to allow books to stand for parliament.
9. The International Space Station weighs about 500 tons and is the same size as books!
10. Some birds use books to orientate themselves during migration.

I really like the first one!

Wow, Magda! Never knew you so very, very special!


Ten Top Trivia Tips about Magda!

1. Magda can taste with her feet!
2. Magda can fly at an average speed of fifteen kilometres an hour!
3. Magda can grow up to three feet in a 24 hour period.
4. Influenza got its name because people believed the disease was caused by the evil "influence" of Magda.
5. Scientists have discovered that Magda can smell the presence of autism in children!
6. Magda can not regurgitate.
7. Magda can eat up to four kilograms of insects in a single night!
8. Magda can clean her ears with her tongue, which is over thirty-nine inches long.
9. A sixteenth century mathematician lost his nose in a duel over his love for Magda, and wore a silver replacement for the rest of his life.
10. The ace of spades in a playing card deck symbolizes Magda.

1. Trigonometry is black with white stripes, not white with black stripes!
2. Medieval knights put the skin of Trigonometry on their sword handles to improve the grip!
3. More than one million stray dogs and half a million stray cats live in Trigonometry!
4. 68 percent of all UFO sightings are by Trigonometry!
5. Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are Trigonometry.
6. There are now more than 4000 satellites orbiting Trigonometry.
7. Ancient Greeks believed earthquakes were caused by Trigonometry fighting underground.
8. The ace of spades in a playing card deck symbolizes Trigonometry.
9. Banging your head against Trigonometry uses 150 calories an hour!
10. Trigonometryology is the study of Trigonometry!

A sixteenth century mathematician lost his nose in a duel over his love for a three toad sloth, and wore a silver replacement for the rest of his life.

A three toad sloth can jump up to sixteen times its own height.
Reindeer like to eat a three toad sloth!

A three toad sloth is the smallest of Jupiter's many moons!
Without a three toad sloth, we would have to pollinate apple trees by hand!

If you cut a three toad sloth in half and count the number of seeds inside, you will know how many children you are going to have!

A three toad sloth is the sacred animal of Thailand.

The deepest part of a three toad sloth is over 35,000 feet deep.

If you lace a three toad sloth from the inside to the outside, the fit will be snugger around your big toe.

Owls cannot move their eyes, because their eyeballs are shaped like a three toad sloth.

Ten Top Trivia Tips about RPGs!

1. RPGs can run sixty-five kilometres an hour - that's really fast.
2. India tested its first nuclear RPGs in 1974.
3. Ostriches stick their heads in RPGs not to hide but to look for water!
4. RPGs are 984 feet tall!
5. The fingerprints of RPGs are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene!
6. There are six towns named RPGs in the United States!
7. Half a cup of RPGs contains only seventeen calories.
8. The moon is 400 times closer to the Earth than RPGs, and 400 times smaller.
9. RPGs are picked, sorted and packed entirely in the field.
10. A RPGometer is used to measure RPGs.

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Philosophy!

Philosophy was originally called Cheerioats.
In Chinese, the sound 'Philosophy' means 'bite the wax tadpole'.
Tradition allows women to propose to Philosophy only during leap years.
The Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter is made entirely of Philosophy.
Oranges, lemons, watermelons, pineapples and Philosophy are all berries!
If you toss Philosophy 10000 times, it will not land heads 5000 times, but more like 4950, because its head weighs more and thus ends up on the bottom!
Philosophyology is the study of Philosophy.
Philosophy can be seen from space.
American Airlines saved forty thousand dollars a year by eliminating Philosophy from each salad served in first class.
Philosophy is actually a fruit, not a vegetable!

1. Snow White's coffin was made of iPod!
2. During World War II, Americans tried to train iPod to drop bombs!
3. In a pinch, the skin from a shark can be used as iPod.
4. By tradition, a girl standing under iPod cannot refuse to be kissed by anyone who claims the privilege.
5. During severe windstorms, iPod may sway several feet to either side.
6. There is no lead in a lead pencil - it is simply a stick of graphite mixed with iPod and water.
7. You share your birthday with iPod.
8. The number one cause of blindness in the United States is iPod!
9. There are 336 dimples on iPod!
10. Britain's Millennium Dome is more than double the size of iPod.

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Biology!

1. Biology can be found on a Cluedo board between the Library and the Conservatory.
2. Biology was banned from Finland because of not wearing pants.
3. Biology is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature!
4. The Biology-fighting market in the Philippines is huge - several thousand Biology-fights take place there every day!
5. Biology will often rub up against people to lay its scent and mark its territory.
6. Olive oil was used for washing Biology in the ancient Mediterranean world!
7. A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but Biology can not.
8. Oranges, lemons, watermelons, pineapples and Biology are all berries.
9. The military salute is a motion that evolved from medieval times, when knights in armour raised their visors to reveal Biology!
10. Biology can be very poisonous if injected intravenously!


this will interest me in my schoolwork a whole lot more!