Trivia Thread

[PaulSmith69]

There are now more hominids in the U.S. of voting age OVER 65, than under.

 

[PaulSmith69]

Englishmen drink about 20 times as much tea as Americanmen.

 

[PaulSmith69]

Approx. 85% of water in URINE is recycled on board the International Space Station.

 

[PaulSmith69]

In the series of James Bond films, he has killed over 400 people.

 

[PaulSmith69]

The Volkswagen Touareg (German pronunciation: [ˈtuːaʁɛk]) is an mid-size luxury SUV produced by German automaker Volkswagen since 2002 at the Volkswagen Bratislava Plant. The vehicle was named after the nomadic Tuareg people, inhabitants of the Saharan interior in North Africa.

 

[PaulSmith69]

Idaho was the 1st State to put graphics on their license plate, way back in 1924!

 

[PaulSmith69]

In the U.S., a train collides with another vehicle approx. every 90 minutes.

 

[PaulSmith69]

The U.S. is the LARGEST consumer of Irish Whiskey.

 

[RickyCusack]

The U.S. city with the largest native American population is.....

 

[RickyCusack]

It takes an average of $183,000 to fully train a military canine.

 

[RickyCusack]

The Empire State building weighs 350,000 tons.

I so incredibly smart! This was a trivia question with NO multiple choice answers. I 1st was thinking 300-400KT, but settled for 400KT for my final answer. Not bad, eh?

 

[RickyCusack]

Whilst treating a skin fungus on my chest with Selsun Blue shampoo, I was curious about how many actual types of fungus there are, so I looked it up:

Fungal habitats include soil, water, and organisms that may harbor large numbers of understudied fungi, estimated to outnumber plants by at least 6 to 1. More recent estimates based on high-throughput sequencing methods suggest that as many as 5.1 million fungal species currently exist.

Stock photo (not me):

 

[RickyCusack]

60% of American prefer smooth over crunchy peanut butter.

This is the same percentage as the percentage of those convicted of smuggling illegals into the U.S. are Americans.