Full of trivial trivia? I bet everyone knows at least 1 fact that will probably never come in handy unless you get lucky & it happens to be worth a pie piece in Trivial Pursuit.

Let's see what we can come up with. Post whichever pointless facts you know off the top of your head.

Here are 3 that come to mind:

- Corn is a grass.

- A rhino's horn is made of hair.

- The letters in the word ALMOST are in alphabetical order.

In 1969, a law was passed that made it illegal for US citizens to have any contact with spaceships or aliens

The average human eats 8 spiders in their sleep

Dolphins sleep with one eye open

Porcupines float in water

A scrabble board has 225 squares. 15 high and 15 wide

January is National Soup Month

Polar bear fur isn't white - it's actually transparent.

A horse can't breathe through its mouth.

Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."

The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times

I wish I could think of something right now, but I always say that the years of useless knowledge that I accumulated led to my appearance on "Jeopardy." It was seven years ago, and I won second place. At least that useless knowledge paid off!

A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks, otherwise it will digest itself.

The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino

Daniel Boone detested coonskin caps

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!

and for those looking for some good diet food........
Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to digest a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with

I feel smarter already just by ready all of your posts!

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.

The tip of a 1/3 inch long hour-hand on a wristwatch travels at 0.00000275 mph

The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.

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

Caesar salad has nothing to do with any of the Caesar. It was first concocted in a bar in Tijuana, Mexico, in the 1920's.

German police dogs are now required to wear booties when they're on duty do to the number of paw injuries


........and they're blue to match the officers uniforms!!!

a birds feathers weigh more than its bones, because a birds bones a hollow

If a human eats polar bear liver it will kill them due to it's high concentration of vitamin A.

I am a human that testifies the 8 spiders thing is true! Ugh...not cool to wake up with a smashed spider half way out your mouth...I remember my mouth itching and smacking it in the middle of the night...so gross!

Ooh...*cringing with mouth squeezed shut* *hand over mouth*

good source of protein?



A dime has 118 ridges around the edge

President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.

In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.

Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.

The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.

In the early days of the telephone, operators would pick up a call and use the phrase, "Well, are you there?". It wasn't until 1895 that someone suggested answering the phone with the phrase "number please?"

The surface area of an average-sized brick is 79 cm squared.

Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.