Got any weird but true trivia?

Owls never sleep.

An obscure subset of chemically reactive clays, they are known collectively as Fuller’s Earths. These odd materials are exceptionally porous and find many applications in the refining and filtering of various compounds.

A single CUBIC INCH of this material may have the surface area of AN ENTIRE FOOTBALL FIELD.

The robot “Maximilian” from the movie “The Black Hole”…

…is the first and only villain to disembowel another character in a Disney movie. :eek:

there is always an even number of rows on an ear of corn.

I’m pretty sure they do.

this one is old and well-known but it still cracks me up…

Virginia is actually further west than West Virginia.

You have to tell us the rest!

The marine snail genus Conus, has evolved the rock-scraping radula structure of many common snail species, into a predatorily propelled harpoon, able to inject a neuropeptide cocktail 13 times potent enough to imobilize and kill many vertebrate species (including an adult human) within seconds. Of course the 4 or 5 inch snail is only able to eat animals small enouth for it to swallow, but that is a helluva puch to pack. Some species entice fish prey towards it by wiggling a anatomical lure.

Nope. Someone I know personally keeps owls and other birds of prey. If an owl looks like it’s sleeping, it’s dead.

Really? Where did it say that?

More people have died as a result of injuries incurred from playing first-class cricket than Major League Baseball. (And there have probably been fewer first-class cricket games than MLB games played.)

Guinastasia: I could have sworn that I read that on the IMDb trivia page, but now I can’t find it, and some websearching has turned up zilch. Since I haven’t seen the episode in which we supposedly saw his family, I’ll have to retract that statement due to lack of evidence.

Holland once went into an economic depression because of a tulip

The only place in the Uk that Elvis ever visited (not counting the fact that he’s now living in Worthing) is the transit lounge at Prestwick Airport.

Arsenal are the only English league team not named after a place (not any more they’re not - filthy nomads)

Corinthian Casuals are the only club to provide all eleven England players.

Hull City is the only football team name you can’t colour in.

The Duke of Westminster owns the American Embassy in London - he won’t sell the freehold as (apparently) he is holding out for his families holdings in the USA to be returned to him - ie most of New York.

Jimmy Greaves is the only man to score in all rounds of the FA cup.

I read the other day that you exhale a pint of water in your breath every day.

apparantly, a study in DNA and specifically mitochondrial DNA suggests that ALL human beings outside of Africa, have the same ancestral mother…

here’s a link:
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20020225/eve.html

He actually said “I have to get home to my wife and kids,” but the episode ran long, so the line was cut.

I’m glad. The whole “Smithers” thing ladds a lovely dimension to the show.