Trivia, Trivia And More Trivia

Want to be the hit of the party and have them talking long after the party is over? Well read on and feel free to use it as your own.

1. A 1951 census in India indicated there were nearly 3 million husbands and more than 6 million wives between 5 & 14 years old.
2. A seahorse can hold objects with its tail.
3. A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
4. A group of ravens is called a murder.
5. Donald Duck was banned in Finland for failure to wear pants.
6. A polar Bear's skin is actually black.
7. Nabisco's "Oreo's" are the world's best-selling brand of cookie at a rate of about 6 billion sold each year. The first Oreo was sold in 1912
8. In Cleveland, Ohio, USA, it's illegal to catch mice without a license.
9. Dogs can die from eating chocolate.
10. Tipping in Iceland is an insult.
11. In England the speaker of the house is not allowed to speak.
12. Miss Kitty, Amanda Blake, of Gunsmoke,(American TV western series from 1955-1975) fame, died of AIDS in 1989, contracted, from her Bisexual husband.
13. There was once an undersea post office in the Bahamas.
14. The flea can jump 350 times its body length.
15. No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."
16. TYPEWRITER is the longest word in the English language than can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
17. Vanilla is the extract of fermented and dried pods of several species of orchids.
18. Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."
19. The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
20. Mushrooms were reserved in Ancient Eygpt for the Pharoahs.
21. When honey is swallowed, it enters the blood stream within a period of 20 minutes.
22. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
23. The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.
24. A group of whales is called a pod.
25. No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half.
26. The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is its plural, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses.
27. Butterflies tastes like feet.
28. The dot over the 'I' is called a tittle.
29. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
30. A group of larks is called an exaltation.
31. Since Hindus don't eat beef, the McDonald's in New Delhi makes its burgers with mutton.
32. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
33. A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbook can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
34. The "L.L." in L.L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood.
35. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months two rats could conceivably have over a million descendants.
    
36. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
37. The province of Alberta Canada is completely free of rats.
38. In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes.
39. Between 1500 & 1700, tobacco was prescribed by doctors to treat a variety of ailments such as headaches, arthritis, bad breath, and toothaches.
40. A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile.
41. The Prudential Life Insurance Company in the USA stopped using their slogan 'Own A Piece Of The Rock' after the American actor Rock Hudson died of AIDS and many jokes were made about him and the slogan.
42. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
43. Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the morning.
44. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
45. The English sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the English alphabet, (a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y,z.).
46. It's physically impossible for pigs to look up at the sky.
47. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
48. A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.
49. All 17 children of Queen Anne died before her.
50. Sugar was added to chewing gum by a dentist named, William Semple in 1869.
    

This is really the end, I won't write another hub about this, I promise. But go over and read the other two here: Trivia, trivia, trivia, we love trivia, and, 50 Trivia conversation starters.