My my my my.... you could be on Jeopardy! Or maybe not...

Anyway, we now present to you random knowledge, useful for impressing drunk relatives at parties!

Q: What is the most useless/ridiculous/obscure piece of trivia you possess?

develin@fas.harvard.edu (Michael Lee Develin):
Note to Krissy: how odd. i got this as we were about to play trivial pursuit.
The average giraffe's tongue is 17 inches long.

Vibe526@aol.com:
If you mix PEPSI with Coca-Cola and it tastes just like RC cola with the caffiene level of JOLT.

MMAYS@wvnvaxa.wvnet.edu:
Hrm. I would say 'bananas are a good source of potassium', but this has actually come in handy at times. I would say the name of those things on the end of your shoelaces, but I have no idea what they're called.
So... Pigeons explode if you feed them alka-seltzer.

II STaN II@aol.com:
how many popcorn cornals, popped in SCREAM, you know, when drew barrymore is being tortured on the phone..

answer.. 37!

FTFOI@aol.com:
The word "Taxi" is spelled and pronounced the same in EVERY language where applicable. Just think: you can hail a cab in any country without learning any of the language at all! (and they way the cabbies speak in NY, you might not need another language AFTER hailing it either...)

CBreakr@aol.com:
hmmmmm, useless trivia......the 177th word in "Gulliver's Travels" is: Houyhnhnm
and the 666th word is: learning - the word of the devil

Faisal the 2nd of Iraq was educated at the Harrow school in England

The specific gravity of Feldspar is between 2.55 and 2.75

The horologium was a time measuring instrument used in the 14th century

Topeka, KA is about 55 miles west of Kansas City

Call 1-800-258-6728 to get nutritional information about the Nestle Crunch bar...or 1-800-468-1714 for Almond Joy

The population of Aruba in 1994 was 65,545

The Jets went 6-10 in 1994

( I'm just giving you a choice here, take whatever you like )

DarkGlory@aol.com:
I know exactly how long a day is. Tis 23 hours and 56 minutes, hence, all those 4 minutes add up every four years to add another day (leap year) I also know the coy mating call of the male lemu (thanks to Renie,sadly)

Nikki Tyr@aol.com:
If you stretch out all the DNA from all the cells in a baby's body and lay it end to end, it's enough for 15 round trips from the sun to Pluto. Oh yeah, and homosexuality in fruit flies is controlled by a single gene pair. The gene for having six fingers on each hand rather than five is dominant.

dhg5@cornell.edu (David Gold):
Well, if you were to go up to Antarctica, and stand at the South Pole, whatever way you walk would be north. But that's not a fact, that's an oddity of human map-making. (Yet another proof, by the way, that humans are the lowest form of life on Earth. What other species would pick a point about 350 miles north fromn where it should be, and call that the South Pole? A mistake that hasn't been corrected in about 700 years...)

Anyway, if you were at the South pole, and happened to see a polar bear, you would be startled to know that... dum dum DUM...

A POLAR BEAR'S SKIN IS ACTUALLY BLACK.

This is the undeniable truth. The only white part of a polar bear is it's fur, Mother Nature's invention for the fucking coldest place on Earth. The skin is black as ink, for reasons totally unknown to me. I suspect Mother Nature got plastered and decided and ralfed up beer all over the original polar bear. Since nothing gets beer out of whites, (beleive me, I know) she decided to just dye the thing black. But, since that made the polar obvious to it's natural enemies, the... uh... the Bengal tigers (as opposed to the Detroit Tigers), she covered that up with fur.

Another... (thunk!) Useless Fact.

FeyPiper@aol.com:
SPELL FOR THE MANUFACTURE AND USE OF A MAGIC CARPET:

"Let a virgin girl weave a carpet of white and new wool, in the hour of the sun, when the moon is full and when the sun is in Capricorn. Go into the country, to an uninhabited place, where you will suffer no disturbances; spread your carpet east and west, and, having made a circle to enclose it, hold your wand in the air, and call upon Michael to the East, Raphael to the North, Gabriel to the West, and Miniel to the South. Then turn to the East and invoke the name of Agla. Take in your left hand the point of the carpet that is to the East, then turn towards the North and do the same, repeating it similarly for the South and the West, until you have raised all four corners. Then turning toward the East, say, reverently,

Agla, Agla, Agla: O God almighty, who art the life of the universe, and who ruleth over the four divisions of its vast form by the strength and virtue of the four letters of Thy Holy Name, Tetragrammaton Yod He Vau He. Bless in Thy name this covering which I hold, as thou hast blessed the mantle of Elijah in the hands of Elisha, so that, being covered by thy wings, nothing may be able to injure me, even as it is said "He shall hide thee under his wings, and beneath His feathers shall thou trust.

Then fold it up, saying Recabustira, Cabustira, Bustira, Tira, Ra, A; and keep it carefully until you next need it. Choose a night of full or new moon. Go to a place where you will suffer no interruption, having written the following characters on a strip of azure blue virgin parchment with the feather of a dove:

RAZIEL (and some wacky characters which I cannot reproduce)
Then prostrate yourself, after casting some incense on the fire; holding the wand in your left hand, the parchment in your right, say:

Vegale, Hamicata, Umsa, Terata, Yeh, Dah, Ma, Baxasoxa, Un, Hora, Himsere O God, Thou Vast One, send unto me the inspiration of Thy light, and make me to discover the secret thing which I ask of Thee, whatsoever such and such a thing may be. Make me to search it out, by the aid of Thy Holy ministers Raziel, Tzaphniel, Matmoniel, Io.

It also takes 14 miles at 60 mph to fully heat and fry a can of Spam attached with wire to the exhaust pipe of a snowmobile.

"There are more synonyms for being intoxicated than for any other condition or object in the English language."
- The Guinness Book of World Records