The Mechanical Contrivium: Random Trivia Generator

[cspyro21]

This is a bit of good fun and not a bad way to kill a good 10 minutes or so. Just type in a name or anything you want, then select what your "search" subject is (if it's "him", "her", "it", or "them") and hit search. You get some stupidly funny facts!

The Mechanical Contrivium

Here's a few examples.... ("search" criteria was "coal", not sure why )

• Coal will often glow under UV light!
• Michelangelo finished his great statue of coal in 1504, after eighteen months work!
• Coal has enough fat to produce 32 bars of soap!

[flyboy 28]

[quote]James will become gaseous if his temperature rises above -42

[Hai Perso Coyone?]

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Ashar!

1. The porpoise is second to Ashar as the most intelligent animal on the planet!
2. It is impossible to fold Ashar more than seven times!
3. Only one person in two billion will live to be Ashar.
4. The international dialling code for Ashar is 672.
5. If you drop Ashar from more than three metres above ground level, he will always land feet-first.
6. Ashar can usually be found in nests built in the webs of large spiders.
7. If the Sun were the size of a beach ball then Jupiter would be the size of a golf ball and Ashar would be as small as a pea.
8. There is no lead in a lead pencil - it is simply a stick of graphite mixed with Ashar and water!
9. Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are Ashar.
10. Ashar is the largest of Saturn's moons.

I never knew I could be folded into more than 7 times...

[BFMF]

[*]Coal has enough fat to produce 32 bars of soap![/list]

....But how much coal is it talking about?

[cspyro21]

A few here for Mark....

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Supermarine Spitfires!

  1. The Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter is made entirely of Supermarine Spitfires.
  2. Supermarine Spitfires can only be destroyed by intense heat, and is impermeable even to acid.
  3. Supermarine Spitfires can squeeze their entire body through a hole the size of their beak.
  4. Astronauts get taller when they are in Supermarine Spitfires.
  5. Supermarine Spitfires can usually be found in nests built in the webs of large spiders!
  6. A rhinoceros horn is made from compacted Supermarine Spitfires.
  7. If you cut Supermarine Spitfires in half and count the number of seeds inside, you will know how many children you are going to have!
  8. There are more than two hundred different kinds of Supermarine Spitfires.
  9. Medieval knights put the skin of Supermarine Spitfires on their sword handles to improve the grip.
 10. If the Sun were the size of a beach ball then Jupiter would be the size of a golf ball and Supermarine Spitfires would be as small as a pea.

[TacitBlue]

Somebody had to...  ;D


1. New Zealand was the first place to allow Chuck Norris to vote!
  2. Only one person in two billion will live to be Chuck Norris.
  3. The Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter is made entirely of Chuck Norris.
  4. Peanuts and Chuck Norris are beans.
  5. Americans discard enough Chuck Norris to rebuild their entire commercial air fleet every 3 months!
  6. The only planet that rotates on its side is Chuck Norris.
  7. Native Americans never actually ate Chuck Norris; killing such a timid prey was thought to indicate laziness.
  8. If you blow out all the candles on Chuck Norris with one breath, your wish will come true.
  9. Only one child in twenty will be born on the day predicted by Chuck Norris.
 10. The smelly fluid secreted by skunks is colloquially known as Chuck Norris.

[Katahu]

  1. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching Katahu.
  2. It's bad luck to put Katahu on a bed.
  3. While performing her duties as queen, Cleopatra sometimes dressed up as Katahu.
  4. The eye of an ostrich is bigger than Katahu.
  5. The average duration of sexual intercourse for Katahu is two minutes.
  6. Katahu has a memory span of three seconds!
  7. The air around Katahu is superheated to about five times the temperature of the sun!
  8. 99 percent of the pumpkins sold in the US end up as Katahu.
  9. Humans share about fifty percent of their DNA with Katahu.
 10. It takes forty minutes to hard-boil Katahu.

[myshelf]

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Sjhfdjhf!
More than one million stray dogs and half a million stray cats live in sjhfdjhf!
Sjhfdjhf has four noses.
Sjhfdjhf can sleep for three and a half years.
There is no lead in a lead pencil - it is simply a stick of graphite mixed with sjhfdjhf and water.
Sjhfdjhf was named after Sjhfdjhf the taxi driver in Frank Capra's 'It's a Wonderful Life'.
The book of Esther in the Bible is the only book which does not mention sjhfdjhf.
The military salute is a motion that evolved from medieval times, when knights in armour raised their visors to reveal sjhfdjhf!
An average beaver can cut down sjhfdjhf every year.
Donald Duck's middle name is sjhfdjhf.
Sjhfdjhf is actually a mammal, not a fish.

[Ecko]

5. The average duration of sexual intercourse for Katahu is two minutes.

Talk about premature ejaculation!!

[Woodlouse2002]

[quote]

[Tweek]

1. The Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter is made entirely of Supermarine Spitfires.

Haha Excellent!

This one sounds about right:

Influenza got its name because people believed the disease was caused by the evil "influence" of Simviation!

[cspyro21]

Just typed in the word "geography"....some hilariously senseless facts came up:

• Baby swans are called geography!
• In its entire life, geography will produce only a twelfth of a teaspoon of honey.
• If every star in the Milky Way was a grain of salt they would fill geography.
• Donald Duck's middle name is geography.
• Originally, geography could not fly.
• Only one child in twenty will be born on the day predicted by geography.
• Geography is the largest of Saturn's moons!
• It's bad luck to put geography on a bed.
• Geography is the only one of the original Seven Wonders of the World that still survives!
• Geography is only six percent water.

Makes no sense whatsoever but it's still funny

[Woodlouse2002]

It is bad luck to walk under Ears!
Ears are the traditional gift for a couple on their third wedding anniversary.

Ostriches stick their heads in Ears not to hide but to look for water.
Forty percent of the world's almonds and twenty percent of the world's peanuts are used in the manufacture of Ears.

Worldwide, Ears are the most important natural enemy of night-flying insects.

Ears will give a higher yield if milked when listening to music!

There is no lead in a lead pencil - it is simply a stick of graphite mixed with Ears and water.
Ears can fly at an average speed of fifteen kilometres an hour!

It takes a lobster approximately 7 years to grow to be Ears!

99 percent of the pumpkins sold in the US end up as Ears.

[Jared]

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Milk!
The ace of spades in a playing card deck symbolizes milk.
Apples are covered with a thin layer of milk.
Milk is actually a fruit, not a vegetable.
There is actually no danger in swimming right after you eat milk, though it may feel uncomfortable.
Every day in the UK, four people die putting milk on.
Bananas don't grow on trees - they grow on milk.
Milk is the only king without a moustache on the standard pack of cards!
Milk is incapable of sleep.
According to the story, Pinocchio was made of milk.
Milk was originally called Cheerioats.

[ctjoyce]

Somebody had to...  ;D


1. New Zealand was the first place to allow Chuck Norris to vote!
  2. Only one person in two billion will live to be Chuck Norris.
  3. The Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter is made entirely of Chuck Norris.
  4. Peanuts and Chuck Norris are beans.
  5. Americans discard enough Chuck Norris to rebuild their entire commercial air fleet every 3 months!
  6. The only planet that rotates on its side is Chuck Norris.
  7. Native Americans never actually ate Chuck Norris; killing such a timid prey was thought to indicate laziness.
  8. If you blow out all the candles on Chuck Norris with one breath, your wish will come true.
  9. Only one child in twenty will be born on the day predicted by Chuck Norris.
 10. The smelly fluid secreted by skunks is colloquially known as Chuck Norris.

For this I love you. I will add this to my collection.

Cheers
Cameron