Antigone's Amazing Caboodle of Trivia

[Antigone]

Fact of the day: the Mongolian Navy consists of seven guys in a tugboat, and six of them can't swim.

 

[Anhelyna]

Now that's a really good item of trivia

<< Goes off on the hunt >>

 

[S.ilvio]

The majority of people, if they had a choice, would get out of bed on the left hand side...

 

[Anhelyna]

Sigurd, Viking King of Orkney, died in 892 while invading Scotland. He chopped off the Pictish king's head in battle and fastened it to the saddle of his horse - then cut his leg on its teeth, the wound turned septic and he died. Dead head bites king, that's better than Man bites dog!

 

[S.ilvio]

Lovely people, those Vikings...

 

[Michie]

Cool thread! *subscribing*

 

[Antigone]

Saudi-Arabia imports its camels from Australia.

Camels, by the way, have three eyelids to protect them from sandstorms.

 

[Romans 13:3]

There are 10 kinds of people in the world; those who understand binary and those who don't.

 

[Dylan Michael]

A pound of feathers weighs more than a pound of Gold.

 

[Genersis]

Chocolate demand is set to eventually outstrip supply in the next...twenty years? If I remember right.

Also, remember those power loaders, from the film Aliens?

The technology might not be as far off as it seems:

 

[BeachSun]

There are 10 kinds of people in the world; those who understand binary and those who don't.

Ok, you win post of the day!

 

[Dylan Michael]

There are 10 kinds of people in the world; those who understand binary and those who don't.

There are two kinds of people in this world: Those that can extrapolate from incomplete data.

 

[Michie]

Vincent Van Gogh only sold 1 painting his whole life and that was to his brother.

 

[Antigone]

Fact of the day: most people falsely presume the Sahara desert is the largest desert in the world. In fact, it's Antarctica.

 

[Dylan Michael]

There is a small group of people that the Panhandle of Florida is illegally occupied by the US. They maintain that because of several treaties, that the area actually is still a dominion of the UK, the so-called Dominion of British West Florida. This view is not held by Historians nor the British Government.

I kinda wish it was a thing, I need some excitement in my life.

 

[Dylan Michael]

Also, Cleopatra lived closer to today than she did the building of the Great Pyramid.

 

[Antigone]

Fact of the day: during World War I, Hitler and JJR Tolkien fought against each other in the battle of the Somme.

 

[Antigone]

Fact of the day: John Tyler, who was the 10th president of the USA, was born in 1790. He currently has two living grandsons.

 

[Sumwear]

mario doesn't use his head to break blocks.

he uses his fist.

 

[Dylan Michael]

(Authentic Traditional) Haggis is illegal in the United States.