Trivia You Didn't Know You Wanted To Know

I am on one of those binges again. It doesn’t involve food, drugs, alcohol or sex - sorry to disappoint you. It’s a trivia binge.

Every time I research one subject, I get bombarded with so many captivating tidbits about various subjects that it makes my initial research take a lot longer.

Since you all are the intelligentsia - the movers of thoughts - the shakers of ideals, the dividers of reason and concur(er)s of meaning - (I know, that was a slippery one), I know that these brain boosters won’t fall on deaf ears.

So get ready to learn more things you didn’t know you wanted to know. Remember them. There will be a test later.

More people die from eating sharks than from being eaten by them. This is due to a poison in the shark meat.

The DNA of humans is closer to a rat than a cat.

The kidneys filter 400 gallons of blood a day.

The longest engagement lasted 67 years and the couple married when they were 82 years old.

Queen Victoria used marijuana to relieve menstrual cramps.

Abe Lincoln bought 50 cents worth of cocaine in 1860.

The most expensive perfume in the world is Parfum VI, which was made by Arthur Burnham. It is a 4 inch bottle covered with diamonds and 24-carat gold and costs around $85,000. Only 173 bottles of the scent - a tribute to the Rolls-Royce Phantom VI - were made.

The smallest bone in the human body is the stirrup bone which is located in the ear.

It takes 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.

Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower,' because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored smaller, 'lower case' letters.

Sailors once thought that wearing a gold earring would improve their eyesight.

Early Romans used porcupine quills as toothpicks.

There are six million parts in the Boeing 747-400.

More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.

Every day is about 55 billionths of a second longer than the day before it.

Men with a certain rare medical condition can breast-feed babies.

Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.

Hong Kong has the most Rolls Royces per capita.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.

The Taj Mahal was actually built to use as a tomb.

There are 1,665 total number of steps in the Eiffel Tower.

The most expensive shoes in the world are ruby slippers located in Harrods in London, which costs 1.6 million and has a full time security guard. The shoes are made from platinum thread and contains 642 rubies.

The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon because the foot swells around this time.

There is about 200 times more gold in the worlds oceans, than has been mined in our entire history.

Four sunken nuclear submarines sit at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. One, a Russian sub resting in deep water off of Bermuda, holds 16 live nuclear warheads. Scientists and oceanographers are unsure what the impact of the escaping plutonium will have, but warn that corrosion could create the proper chemical environment for a massive nuclear chain reaction.