Who likes trivia? Here's a place where people can post random trivial facts and maybe simultaneously learn random trivial facts that other people know.

I'll start the ball rolling with some random historical facts. Hope you find them interesting!

Did you know...

* Adolf Hitler was Time magazine's "Man of the Year" in 1938 - the year before World War Two began.

* You've probably heard about Einstein's theory of relativity. Have you heard of Einstein's refrigerator? It required no electricity or moving parts.

* Notorious gangster Al Capone ran soup kitchens for the needy during the Great Depression.

* Tea bags were an accidental invention. Thomas Sullivan was a tea importer based in New York City, who sent his clients their tea in metal tins by post. However, he soon realised that this was costing him too much money, as the tins were heavy and cost more to post. So he began sending the tea in little silk bags instead. His clients misunderstood his reason for sending the bags and assumed that the bags were intended to go in their teapots. And lo and behold, we have tea bags! =)

... No, I didn't know any of the above!

• The word 'trivia' comes from the word 'trivial,' which means of little importance or consequence. Trivia is... general, random stuff about the world, history, science, anything really... that is of little practical importance to most people but is fun to share.
• By law, most shops in Germany are closed on Sundays. If you lived near the German - Dutch border you'd find many German shoppers in Dutch supermarkets doing their weekly shopping, since the Netherlands don't have that law.
• An electric current is the movement of charge, usually in the form of electrons. While electricity can move very fast down a wire, the electrons themselves are moving quite slowly. If you could mark an electron hopping on to the wire at one end, it could take a very long time before it pops out the other. However, if the electricity is in the form of alternating current (AC), the electrons aren't going anywhere, they're all just bumping to and fro in sync - kinda like a choir singing "we are one, but we are many..."

Thanks, Andy! I only knew the first fact and didn't know the others. But now I do.

Not sure if people are actually interested in this topic, but I'll post up a few more facts, anyway. I find them interesting, although I realise that's a very subjective point of view!

* There were several spelling mistakes in the Declaration of Independence -- including the word "British", which was spelt "Brittish."

* Adolf Hitler's childhood dream was to become an architect.

* Italy's national flag was designed by Napoleon Bonaparte.

* There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos -- even dealers are even forbidden to wear watches.

* The phrase "rule of thumb" apparently derived from an old English law, which stated that men could not beat their wives with anything larger/wider than their thumbs.

Some aussie facts

The average Australian will consume 165,000 eggs in his or her lifetime

The most medals Australia has ever won at an Olympic Games was in the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, a total of 58 medals.

Australia's Parliament House in Canberra is one of the largest buildings in the southern hemisphere at over 300,000 cubic metres.

Melbourne has the largest remaining tram public transport system in the world.

One in every four persons is either a first or second generation settler to Australia, a trend started after World War II.

The second largest source of immigrants is from Australia's neighbour New Zealand; making 1.70% of all immigrants.

In 1954 Bob Hawke made it into the Guinness Record Book: he sculled 2.5 pints of beer in 11 seconds. Bob Hawke went on to become the Prime Minister of Australia.

There are 1500 species of Australian spiders.

Australia has the world's largest population of wild camels with one hump.

Australia has the world's largest cattle station (ranch). At 30,028 km² it is almost the same size as Belgium.

Tasmania has the cleanest air in the world.

The Great Barrier Reef is the longest reef in the world at over 2010 kilometres.

Melbourne has the second largest Greek population in the world, after Athens.

Well, whoever reads this next, whenever that may be, I just heard a funny trivia from someone at work.

I want to make it a question & ask you guys.

There is a group of people who are legally allowed to urinate at any part of the streets, anywhere in Britain.

Who are they?  

Males!

Ha ha ha! That's funny. But NO! WRONG answer. Males are not legally "ALLOWED" to urinate (Not getting away with) in the middle of the streets in Britain.

Hmmm... pregnant women?!? I have no idea.

Oh, well, at least there is ONE other person still coming to this website still. =)

And you are right! It's the pregnant women. But how did you guess that? You are not a women. And surely have not expreinced pregnancy. You are not even a doctor or a nurse. So, how did you know that? Or did Gin guess that?

Hmmm... how did I get that? I don't remember. I also don't recall ever being pregnant... but yeah, I'm getting forgetful nowadays...

;)

Trivia: More people (accidentally) fell into the river in the 2010 cold camp than in any of the previous seven cold camps! :D

i'm sure Andy that you would remember if you were pregnant!

i didn't fall into the water this time at cold camp ! YAY!!!!!! but i have before....brrrrrrr *COLD*