Interesting Trivia

[Artemisia]

This Thread is to look at bits of trivia that no one really cares about but it is interesting to know.
I could think of no where else to put this thread.

for example, Even Twilight pays a slight homage to the Alp
In the movie when Bella is looking for information on the "Cold ones" one of the things that come up says "Alp drank blood" of course this is hard to notice because the bit that is highlighted is Drank blood.
I thought this was interesting even if it is not actually useful

[Demon]

interesting trivia: light is as much a particle as it is a wave, and it comes in small packets called quantums that make me be unable to sleep trying to understand how the universe works! D: *head implosion*

[Amelius]

Haha, I did notice that (I was watching it with RiffTrax on though ^_^) and was little annoyed because I don't want to see a bunch of sparkly alps drawn by misinformed fangirls now @_@ I already had to start that club because there were too many non-hat wearing, tall elfy vampire boys that they were calling Alps on Deviant art!
*strains mind for interesting trivia* buuuhhh....
Cool anagrams for dictionaries!
The Oxford English Dictionary Online=
Lexicon: done in tight, orderly fashion

Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary=
Remains my best word-criteria.
May cite brainier word terms.

[Odin]

Fun fact: If you turn the subtitles on in the popular game Portal (if you don't have this get it it's short but endlessly entertaining) you will notice several lines of text that aren't said showing up and some that are said do not match the written text.

[Demon]

hehe, sparkly alps
XDDDDD
fun fact: if you eat silver you'll turn blue!

[Odin]

That reminds me of annother interesting bit of trivia.

Ivory silverware was made popular by the fact that it changed color when it came into contact with most known poisons at the height of it's popularity.

[Demon]

speaking of poisons, rat poison is usually an anticoagulant, which makes the rats bleed to death, it's easily countered by vitamin K

[Artemisia]

I actually think it would be fun to draw a sparkly Alp with a masquerade mask and a big hat with a feather in it (the hat is crucial) as long as the person drawing it knows what an Alp is. If you do figure that creatures of the night and other praeturnatural oddities are connected to the moon then having them sparkle like the night sky makes perfect sense. As long as the artist rationalizes farther than "they were on Twilight"

Fun Fact: English gets a lot from Greek
English:Greek
History:Historea=Inquiry/research
Ocean:Oceanos= the river ocean which is apparently unnavigable and surrounds the world
Atlas: Atlas = the titan sentenced to hold up the sky (then later the earth)
Laconic:=the Spartans and their allies were called the lacadaimoneans and they spoke harshly
there are many more but i cannot remember what they are

[Demon]

fun factoid: atlas was turned to stone by medusas severed head

[Artemisia]

interesting vampire trivia:
in a recent survey of pop culture vampires, the only vampire which acknowledges the Vampire's pathological need to count is the Count on Sesame street.

in my own experience there are 3:
CTV, Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett, and as above the Count

[Artemisia]

Apparently the ancient Greek Heroes are actually is closer to the undead a dead person who retains amazing powers and can be called upon at need. "The only good hero is a dead hero" I thought this very interesting.

[rezie]

The true green of paints and pigments have been completely discontinued in the art world, due to the fact that the most beautiful greens can only achieved with arsenic in their recipe.

In developing countries however you can still find these paints; being used as pesticides.

[Odin]

CTV appears to be one of the few popular things that has not been touched by Rule 34.

[Artemisia]

rule 34??
you know they used to use unearthed E
gyptian mummies to make paint, and other such amenities... they used dried up dead people as fertiliser... yeuch... thats practically cannibalism...

[rezie]

You are sadly mistaken

Did you know it's considered bad luck to place a hat on a bed?

The majority of diamonds in the world will never be set on a piece of jewelry; industrial grade diamonds earn their worth in aiding mining deep in the Earth.

Bismuth is only important because it is a good substitute for lead.

[Artemisia]

It is Standard medical practice to give babies, on birth, a shot to counteract a possibly fatal complication that affects 1 in 1000 infants. The Shot itself has been proven to cause Leukemia in 1 in 750 People later in life.
The mother and father are not allowed a choice or even to Know whether the child gets the shot regardless of symptoms.
we could cut Leukemia rates in half if we were more cautious about shoving Needles in babies

[the1truesushiboy]

Ok, so here I am... the unofficial "trivia king"... a title recognized by many. Let's see what I've got.

The soundtrack for the first Playstation game to fully require the modern DualShock controller, Ape Escape, was composed by Souichi Terada.

Caffeine works by replacing the chemical, adenosine, which is produced when awake. Adenosine shuts off neurons causing you to feel drowsy. Caffeine reacts the same way to neurons as adenosine, but doesn't actually shut them off, causing to to feel awake if enough is consumed, as it overpowers the adenosine.

Fire is not a substance, but the visual effect of rapid oxidization.

Contrary to popular belief, "antidisestablishmentarianism" is not the longest word in the english language. First of all, in adverb form, it is longer, secondly, "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" is even longer still, and lastly, the full name for the protein known as"titin" is tens of thousands of letters long.

White chocolate is not technically chocolate, as its main flavoring agent is actually vanilla and its fat content is too high to fit the standards of the FDA.

Mercury's symbol "Hg" comes from its other name "Hydragyrum", hydra meaning water and gyrum meaning silver.

The number 666 in other number systems:
Binary-1010011010
Base 6-3030
Base 7-1641
Base 8-1232
Hexadecimal-29A
Base 32-KQ
Base 36-II
Roman numerals-DCLXVI (which is the first six in reverse order)

Coca-Cola was invented by Johnathan Stith Pemberton.

Terms:

Nyx-The Greek god of darkness

Solidus- Technical name for a slash( / )

Gnomon- The part of a sundial that casts a shadow.

Ideo locator- The "you are here" thing on a map.

"Snap crackle pop" in German is "Knisper knasper knusper"

Alektorophobia- The fear of chickens

Aglets- The little plastic bits on the ends of shoelaces are called

Interrobang- a symbol made from an overlapping question mark and exclamation point.