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A chameleon’s tongue is twice the length of its body.
A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
A cat’s jaw cannot move sideways.
An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
All polar bears are left handed.
Ants don’t sleep.
Dragonflies can fly at up to 30 mph.
Flamingos are not naturally pink. They get their color from their food.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint. No two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
That is a keeper.
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle. 😯
The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint. No two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.
That only because you can only check one lion before you get your head bitten off.
umm the border between canada and usa is not a linear line.
I got it now 😳
All polar bears are left handed.
Polar Bears don't have hands
organic355 - MemberThe dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
And the cross on a 't' is called a jot.
Flamingos are not naturally pink. They get their color from their food.
why is their food pink?
why is their food pink?
Raspberries generally are
Hedgehog's can happily live without their flea's, opposed to the "well-known" urban myth that they can't. Hedgehog flea's tend to be a specific hedgehog type but not always, and you use a bird lice/flea treatment on hedgehog's not a cat/dog one.
They can also travel up to 2miles a night in search of food.
Paperclips will be trombones from now on at my desk
I have a rusty paperclip on my desk 😯
Wow these facts are Amaaaaazin
Hyperpolysyllabicomania is a fondness for big words.
When people tell you that we fought the First Wortld War to protect democracy, remind them that we were the only major power that entered the conflict without universal male suffrage.
Weebles wobble, but they don't fall down
Glenmorangie boasts that it is handcrafted by "The Sixteen Men of Tain." This is actually a lie. Why?
I'll give you the answer to this, as no-one cares. (-:
Glenmorangie is currently hand-crafted by the fifteen men and one woman of Tain, but that doesn't scan so well.
A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
Not all woodpeckers do the high speed drilling thing. Indeed, I believe that in the UK you can tell which pecker it is by the sound of its drilling. But I can't remember which way round it is.
When people tell you that we fought the First Wortld War to protect democracy
Tell them they are clueless - surely? WWI had nothing to do with democracy, did it?
The barnacle goose is so named because its feet look like barnacles
I thought it was because people assumed they hatched from barnacles? They do have striking similarities.
Longest word in the dictionary is Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, which is a lung disease you can get from standing too close to an erupting Volcano.
If you spin two certain metals in opposite directions you can create anti-gravity, I can't remember the metals and it took a guy his whole lifetime to find the right ones.
The dry valley in Antarctica is the driest place on earth. The Attacama Desert is 2nd.
this woodpecker is hard as nails 😀
The female Tasmanian Devil has 30-40 young at a time but has only four teats... Tough start to life.
It isn't possible to make a jelly that is self-supporting more then 18 inches tall.
You're more likely to be kicked to death by a donkey then die in an aircrash.
The average length of the male, er, member is 4 inches. Sex on average lasts 4 minutes. Intercourse is, on average, done at a rate of 30 strokes per minute. So an average shag covers 40 feet. So you'd, on average, need to do it 132 times to cover a mile.
the term trivia comes from the the latin trivium [crossroads] or the three roads in to rome depending on etimology where people used to exchange gossip.
It also formed the trivia of medieval education of grammar, rhetoric and logic.
Quadrivium was geometry, music , arithmetic and astronomy and was more advanced that triva or the basics
If you put nutella and marmalade in a butty it tastes a bit like a jaffa cake
Completely useless but think it counts. The chef/caretaker in The Shining was also the voice of Hong Kong Phuey. I was worse for wear when I got told this so wasn't sure if I dreamt it or not and never bothered to look it up. The things you discuss in the pub!
Bob Greaves went bonkers, and whilst in a mental home he tried to flush some puppies down the toilet. RIP Bob Greaves.
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If you put nutella and marmalade in a butty it tastes a bit like a jaffa cake
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moreso if you swap the bread for a sponge finger
Completely useless but think it counts. The chef/caretaker in The Shining was also the voice of Hong Kong Phuey. I was worse for wear when I got told this so wasn't sure if I dreamt it or not and never bothered to look it up. The things you discuss in the pub!
I think this is what you'd call a near miss.
The unfortunately named Scatman Crothers voiced Hong Kong Phooey and played Dick Hallorann in The Shining. Dick Hallorann, however, wasn't the Indian Chief bloke, he was the bald-headed black guy who shows them around at the beginning.
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Hong Kong Phooey, yesterday.
Bob Greaves went bonkers, and whilst in a mental home he tried to flush some puppies down the toilet.
I fear this may be a fib.
The unfortunately named Scatman Crothers voiced Hong Kong Phooey and played Dick Hallorann in The Shining. Dick Hallorann, however, wasn't the Indian Chief bloke, he was the bald-headed black guy who shows them around at the beginning.
He also played the voice of Jazz in the cartoon of transfomers!
water is most dense at 4 deg C
Hot water freezes in less time than cold water. It's called the Mpemba effect
many of the play ground rhymes we knew as kids (70's / 80's) were written by an advertising copy writer.
he wondered how things would spread by word of mouth, (pre-interweb the playground was the social network) so he'd send his kids into school with a rhyme he wrote,
one of his that i remember was "my uncle billy had a 10 foot willy...."
Cheers cougar. In my defence I was three sheets to the wind at the time 🙂
Three_Fish - MemberEdinburgh is further west than Carlisle.
Itz also further west than Bristol
Tartiflette,nom,nom,nom.
Ian
Cheers cougar. In my defence I was three sheets to the wind at the time
As trivia goes, that's a good one.
many of the play ground rhymes we knew as kids (70's / 80's) were written by an advertising copy writer.
If that's not an urban myth I'll be very shocked.
[i]Sex on average lasts 4 minutes[/i]
*feels slightly sorry for the straights.*
If you leave a pub drunk, you're more likely to die walking home than driving.
I read somewhere that the NHS is the worlds second largest employer, with the Chinese Army being the largest.
Maybe I saw it on TV...I might have dreamt it, or perhaps I read it in this thread.
Sex on average lasts 4 minutes*feels slightly sorry for the straights.*
I don't think it matters if it's straight or has a slight curve in it, I doubt it affects the duration.
the average cloud weighs 10,000 tons or so i heard.
mountain bikers are the second most amazing group of people on the planet
Barack Obama said in his inauguration speech that he was the 44th president of the USA. Even Wikipedia supports his claim, but he isn't. He's the 43rd. Grover Cleveland was president twice, but for some reason he's counted as two different presidents.
After the Army, MacDonald's is the second largest landowner in USA.
After the Army, MacDonald's is the second largest landowner in USA.
Nope.