Trivia Thread!

[Erestor Arcamen]

Have a favorite piece of trivia you're dying to share? Here's your chance!

Here's mine:
Tic Tac mints are named after the sound their container makes.

 

[Ent]

There is a significant difference in meaning and application between the words 'effect' and 'affect'.
Many in positions of hiring others look for proper use of these words in their decision making.

 

[Ent]

Spiders have from zero to 8 eyes. The number varies from species to species... and even within the same species.
But the number is always an even number when they have them.

I was never able to count Shelob's eyes I'm afraid...

(p.s. - there is much more to know about spider's eyes but I'll leave that to you.)

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

If you bite into Wint-O-Green Lifesavers in the dark, they make green sparks. Some coworkers and I chewed up three packs one day, confirming the fact.

 

[Ent]

Speaking of the Great Worms (which I note, we're not) -
The longest earthworm is Microchaetus rappi of South Africa. The longest recorded was 21 ft. but they normally average only around 6 feet.
Poor representatives, the descendants of Ancalagon..!

(OK, I'll quit now.)

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

In the 1980s, Fredric Baur, the founder of Pringles, requested to be buried in a Pringles can. His children honored the request.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

He must have been a very small man. 🤔

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

He must have been a very small man. 🤔

I was wondering what flavor...cheddar, pizza, bbq

 

[Ent]

I was wondering what flavor...cheddar, pizza, bbq

I would guess 'original' because he was buried in one of the "iconic cans", one of his stated reasons being he was "proud of his design of it."
Only some of his ashes went into it, most of the rest being in an urn buried beside it, with some put in an urn and given to his grandson - so his daughter Linda Baur is proclaimed to have said.

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

Nutmeg is a hallucinogen. The spice contains myristicin, a natural compound that has mind-altering effects if ingested in large doses.

 

[Elbereth Vala Varda]

The largest galaxy is IC-1101 at 4 million light years in diameter.

 

[Áramandë Amaniel]

Tomorrow never comes.

 

[Elbereth Vala Varda]

Oh no... You went there....

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

Tomorrow never comes.

Is that a fact? 😋

 

[Áramandë Amaniel]

Oh no... You went there....

I went to where, I wonder?

 

[Áramandë Amaniel]

Is that a fact? 😋

It's more of a saying, actually.

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

In the time it took for you to read this sentence, around 50,000 cells in your body died and were replaced by new ones.

 

[Áramandë Amaniel]

In the time it took for you to read this sentence, around 50,000 cells in your body died and were replaced by new ones.

May White shores embrace - oh wait, it probably doesn't work like that...

 

[Ent]

I went to where, I wonder?

So do we all..!🤪

 

[Ent]

It's more of a saying, actually.

And yet also a fact.