19 Completely Useless Pieces Of Trivia That Will Make You Go 'DFAQ?!'
Can anyone resist the lure of trivia? In fact, the more pointless it is, the more fun it becomes. Deny it all you want, it¡¯s a great conversation starter. People love talking about random things, and so the next time you are out at a party, be the centre of attraction with these completely useless bits of trivia. These were collated by Reddit users and some of them are hilarious:
Can anyone resist the lure of trivia? In fact, the more pointless it is, the more fun it becomes. Deny it all you want, it¡¯s a great conversation starter. People love talking about random things, and so the next time you are out at a party, be the centre of attraction with these completely useless bits of trivia. These were collated by Reddit users and some of them are hilarious:
1. ¡°Stretched out at full length a slinky is 82 feet long¡±
2. ¡°The official sign language of Madagascar is Norwegian Sign Language. This also means that the majority (~85%) of practitioners of Norwegian Sign Language, are from Madagascar¡±
3. ¡°The ZIP in zip code stands for Zone Improvement Plan"
4. ¡°Qat pronounced ¡®cat¡¯ is a small type of shrub and is also a perfect Scrabble word, because it¡¯s a q without a u and there¡¯s not many of those!¡±
5. ¡°Karaoke means empty orchestra."
6. ¡°Cleopatra lived closer to the time of the moon landings than she did to the building of the Great Pyramids.¡±
. "The grandson of the woman who designed Hitler's bunker designed Saddam Hussein's bunker."
8. "The longest English word having only a single vowel is strengths."
9. "Otters often have a favorite rock. They store it under their arm in a little pouch when not in use."
10. ¡°Pineapples grow as a bush. For the longest time I thought they came from a tree.¡±
11. "Sharks have been on the planet longer than trees."
12. ¡°According to some cannibals, human flesh tastes like pork. Also, human skin is very similar to pigs.¡±
13. "Everyone has a unique tongue print, just like fingerprints.
14. ¡°Dogs have an actual bone in their penis called the os penis.¡±
15. ¡°If you force a living sponge through a fine mesh screen, it will rearrange itself in a few hours.¡±
16. "There was a Roman Emperor named Pupienus Maximus, pronounced 'poopy-anus.'
17. ¡°You can see the eyeball of an owl through its ear.¡±
18. ¡°Approximately a quarter of all known species of mammals are bats.
19. ¡°There are anywhere between 10 and 200 sextillion stars in the universe, that is a 2 with 23 zeros. If you compare this to grains of sand there are anywhere between 2 and 10 times more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on the beaches in the entire world.