What is your favorite bit of useless trivia?

Cucumbers are native to India, but have been cultivated for thousands of years. They even appeared in the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Roman emperor Tiberius had them on his table all year round.

Oyster crackers were invented by Adam Exton in 1847 to complement oyster stew. They do not contain oysters.

Chickens are native to Southeast Asia.

Cyprus is the only country to have it's map on it's flag. It was settled by the Myceaneans (the original inventors of the safety pin) in 1400 BC. There were large metal deposits on the island that earned the name Cyprus metal, or "cyprium." Cyprium was shortened to "cuprium" and is now called copper.

John Lennon's middle name was Winston (for Churchill) before he changed it to Ono.

There is no such thing as a brontosaurus.

No witches were burned at the stake in the Salem Witch Trials. First, none of them were *really* witches, now were they? Second, everyone who was convicted of being a witch was hanged.

The plural of graffiti is graffito.

Mexico City is the oldest city in North America.

**A penny dropped from any building, no matter how tall, lacks the mass to cause serious damage, according to Mythbusters**

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Archie Bunker's address: 704 Howser Street

Not exactly FAVOURITE but I learnt this today in class and it was rather funny, the way my teacher said it. Here you go!

We were talking about the atmospheres of Venus and Saturn, and Venus' atmosphere is much denser than Earth while Saturn's one is much thinner than Earth's.

She said

"Venus' atmosphere is very dense, so before you can even breathe you will be squashed like a pancake because the pressure is so strong that you will be squashed" [class laughs].

"But Saturn has a much thinner atmosphere so you CAN breathe. But once you breathe your lungs will burst [class giggles] because the pressure in your lungs is much higher than outside so your lungs will burst." [class laughs out loud]

I don't know you find it funny but my teacher is generally quite straight laced and no nonsense so to hear her say such words like "squashed like a pancake" and "lungs burst' is really quite funny and unexpected!

Merv Griffin write the Jeopardy theme song

A woodpeckers' tongue wraps around its brain

A penny dropped from the CN tower would bore a hole through a human skull

the longest word in the english language (at least at the time I learned this) is pneumonoultramicropscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, which is a medical term for volcanic ash in the lungs

You can't lick your elbow...

(I bet you try to)