1,000 Random Facts Everyone Should Know Quotes

“It is against the law to put pretzels in bags in Philadelphia.”
― Tyler Backhause, 1,000 Random Facts Everyone Should Know: A collection of random facts useful for the bar trivia night, get-together or as conversation starter.

“Diamonds aren’t EVERY girl’s best friend… Male penguins propose to females by giving them a pebble. Gentoo Penguins look for the smoothest, shiniest pebble to present to the female he chooses. If she accepts his proposal, she will place the pebble in her nest as a symbol of accepting him as her mate.”
― Tyler Backhause, 1,000 Random Facts Everyone Should Know: A collection of random facts useful for the bar trivia night, get-together or as conversation starter.

“Traffic in Moscow is so bad that wealthy Russians hire fake ambulances to beat the jams.”
― Tyler Backhause, 1,000 Random Facts Everyone Should Know: A collection of random facts useful for the bar trivia night, get-together or as conversation starter.

“The two golf balls that Alan Shephard hit on the moon with a six-iron are still there.”
― Tyler Backhause, 1,000 Random Facts Everyone Should Know: A collection of random facts useful for the bar trivia night, get-together or as conversation starter.

“Justin Timberlake is the voice of the "I'm Lovin' It" campaign for McDonald’s.”
― Tyler Backhause, 1,000 Random Facts Everyone Should Know: A collection of random facts useful for the bar trivia night, get-together or as conversation starter.

“The number of jars of Nutella sold in a year could cover The Great Wall of China eight times. Sounds like a delicious idea!”
― Tyler Backhause, 1,000 Random Facts Everyone Should Know: A collection of random facts useful for the bar trivia night, get-together or as conversation starter.

“Thousands of people attended Andrew Jackson’s funeral in 1845, including his pet parrot that was removed for allegedly swearing too much.”
― Tyler Backhause, 1,000 Random Facts Everyone Should Know: A collection of random facts useful for the bar trivia night, get-together or as conversation starter.

“In ancient Egypt, being a servant was not exactly the most appealing job. They were smeared with honey in order to attract flies away from the pharaoh. Their service didn’t end after their pharaoh’s death either. Some pharaoh’s chose to be sealed in their tombs alongside their living servants, pets and concubines.”
― Tyler Backhause, 1,000 Random Facts Everyone Should Know: A collection of random facts useful for the bar trivia night, get-together or as conversation starter.

“early forms of hockey were played with frozen cow dung for a puck!”
― Tyler Backhause, 1,000 Random Facts Everyone Should Know: A collection of random facts useful for the bar trivia night, get-together or as conversation starter.

“This gives turkeys a 360-degree range of vision.”
― Tyler Backhause, 1,000 Random Facts Everyone Should Know: A collection of random facts useful for the bar trivia night, get-together or as conversation starter.

“After Leonardo da Vinci's death, King Francis I of France hung the Mona Lisa in his bathroom.”
― Tyler Backhause, 1,000 Random Facts Everyone Should Know: A collection of random facts useful for the bar trivia night, get-together or as conversation starter.

“In 2011, a woman named Aimee Davison purchased a “non-visible” piece of art titled “Fresh Air” for $10,000.”
― Tyler Backhause, 1,000 Random Facts Everyone Should Know: A collection of random facts useful for the bar trivia night, get-together or as conversation starter.

“The Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona is taking longer to build than the pyramids. Iit was started in 1882 and it is still under construnction.”
― Tyler Backhause, 1,000 Random Facts Everyone Should Know: A collection of random facts useful for the bar trivia night, get-together or as conversation starter.

“In Taiwan, there are prison and hospital-themed restaurants. The most peculiar of them all, however, is a restaurant called “Modern Toilet” that serves food on miniature toilets.”
― Tyler Backhause, 1,000 Random Facts Everyone Should Know: A collection of random facts useful for the bar trivia night, get-together or as conversation starter.

“When traveling to Switzerland there is one rule that you must know before you get there. Using salt and pepper to season your food at a restaurant is considered to be very offensive to the ones preparing the meal.  Don’t insult your chef by reaching for the seasoning!”
― Tyler Backhause, 1,000 Random Facts Everyone Should Know: A collection of random facts useful for the bar trivia night, get-together or as conversation starter.

“There are no laws against public nudity in Spain.”
― Tyler Backhause, 1,000 Random Facts Everyone Should Know: A collection of random facts useful for the bar trivia night, get-together or as conversation starter.

“The most expensive hotel room in the world costs $83,200 a night at the Royal Penthouse Suite in Geneva at Hotel President Wilson. It has 12 bedrooms, 12 bathrooms and a wrap-around terrace with impressive views of the Alps.”
― Tyler Backhause, 1,000 Random Facts Everyone Should Know: A collection of random facts useful for the bar trivia night, get-together or as conversation starter.

“In Singapore, selling, importing or spitting out chewing gum is illegal. Minister Lee Kuan Yew believed gum would trash the country’s pavement and subway carts.”
― Tyler Backhause, 1,000 Random Facts Everyone Should Know: A collection of random facts useful for the bar trivia night, get-together or as conversation starter.

“Ethiopia follows a calendar that is seven years behind the rest of the world.”
― Tyler Backhause, 1,000 Random Facts Everyone Should Know: A collection of random facts useful for the bar trivia night, get-together or as conversation starter.

“In Bern, Switzerland, there is a 500-year-old statue of a man eating a sack of babies and nobody is sure why. But everyone is sure that it is creepy.”
― Tyler Backhause, 1,000 Random Facts Everyone Should Know: A collection of random facts useful for the bar trivia night, get-together or as conversation starter.

“The German city of Konstanz, which sits on the Swiss border, survived World War 2 without being bombed by leaving all house and streetlights lit at night, making Allied bombers raiding nearby Dornier and Zeppelin aircraft factories think it was part of Switzerland.”
― Tyler Backhause, 1,000 Random Facts Everyone Should Know: A collection of random facts useful for the bar trivia night, get-together or as conversation starter.

“Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu" is the longest name of a place on Earth. It translates roughly as "The summit where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, the slider, climber of mountains, the land-swallower who travelled about, played his nose flute to his loved one".”
― Tyler Backhause, 1,000 Random Facts Everyone Should Know: A collection of random facts useful for the bar trivia night, get-together or as conversation starter.

“Rapper NoClue set the world record in 2005 for fastest rapper by rapping 723 syllables in 51.27 seconds.”
― Tyler Backhause, 1,000 Random Facts Everyone Should Know: A collection of random facts useful for the bar trivia night, get-together or as conversation starter.

“Jimi Hendrix created the song "Little Wing" in 145 seconds”
― Tyler Backhause, 1,000 Random Facts Everyone Should Know: A collection of random facts useful for the bar trivia night, get-together or as conversation starter.

“When John Lennon was asked if Ringo Starr was the best drummer in the world he replied “In the world? He’s not even the best drummer in The Beatles!”
― Tyler Backhause, 1,000 Random Facts Everyone Should Know: A collection of random facts useful for the bar trivia night, get-together or as conversation starter.

“Renaissance composer Orlando de Lassus was kidnapped three times as a boy because of his beautiful singing voice.”
― Tyler Backhause, 1,000 Random Facts Everyone Should Know: A collection of random facts useful for the bar trivia night, get-together or as conversation starter.

“Krystian Zimerman, an accomplished Polish pianist is known for traveling with his own Steinway grand piano. He was headed to play at Carnegie Hall shortly after 9/11, but his piano was confiscated at JFK Airport by customs officials because the glue smelled “funny”. They destroyed the instrument.”
― Tyler Backhause, 1,000 Random Facts Everyone Should Know: A collection of random facts useful for the bar trivia night, get-together or as conversation starter.

“There is a metal band called Hatebeak whose lead singer is an African grey parrot.”
― Tyler Backhause, 1,000 Random Facts Everyone Should Know: A collection of random facts useful for the bar trivia night, get-together or as conversation starter.

“Every single person has an individual, unique smell. Identical twins, however, share the same smell.”
― Tyler Backhause, 1,000 Random Facts Everyone Should Know: A collection of random facts useful for the bar trivia night, get-together or as conversation starter.

“It IS possible to sneeze with your eyes open, but in most cases your body’s response to blink kicks in.”
― Tyler Backhause, 1,000 Random Facts Everyone Should Know: A collection of random facts useful for the bar trivia night, get-together or as conversation starter.