August 09, 2007

Pointless Trivia

How about a few facts that are absolutely and completely unimportant?

Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that make them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"?

A. One thousand

In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase mind your P's and Q's" (Hey, it could be true!)

Almost 1/3 of all water usage can be attributed to flushing toilets.

There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are human beings on Earth.

Posted by: Ogre at 05:05 PM | Comments (4) | Add Comment
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1 I don't know about that water usage fact. Since we went to those low flush commodes... good grief. I think "One third of American's time is now using plungers". ;-)

Posted by: Bou at August 12, 2007 08:58 PM (2zVEj)

2 And flushing more and more and more. I've gotten so I hardly use home toilets any more because I'm tired of standing there flushing 10 times. Instead, I head to a business, which somehow has permission to use toilets that really flush.

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