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  • Random facts that surprised you.
  • SurroundedByZulus
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    Both of the Klitschko brothers having PhDs surprised me.

    climbingkev
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    A hamsters terminal velocity is not enough to kill it on impact.

    SurroundedByZulus
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    What about a hedgehog?

    downshep
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    Why would a hedgehog need a PhD?

    Drac
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    Depends if it lands on the hamster spine side down.

    boxfish
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    8 of of 10 owners who expressed a preference said their cats preferred it.

    CaptainFlashheart
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    Six out of seven dwarves aren’t happy.

    burnsybhoy
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    You can walk a cow upstairs but not downstairs because of the way the legs bend at the knee

    Junkyard
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    Drac has a sense of humour 😉

    ton
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    jones spaceframes are infact, not for life.

    couldashouldawoulda
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    burnsybhoy – Member
    You can walk a cow upstairs but not downstairs because of the way the legs bend at the knee

    That explains a lot! Cheers.

    twohats
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    Giraffes can’t swim.

    couldashouldawoulda
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    Giraffes dont need to swim as their neck is so long. 🙂

    #Edit – Sorry that’s me being cheeky.

    Does anyone know what sound a giraffe makes?

    twohats
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    My kids do!

    neilsonwheels
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    A group of jellyfish is called a smack.
    A group of baboons is called a flange.

    I have no idea what a load of flanges is called though.

    The the cure for persistent hick ups is digital rectal massage.

    project
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    EGGS wearing a pink helmet dont smash,

    nick1962
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    Does anyone know what sound a giraffe makes?

    When it’s drowning?

    higthepig
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    A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won’t.

    matt_outandabout
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    A plane won’t take off on a conveyor belt.

    Junkyard
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    it will
    [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YORCk1BN7QY[/video]

    matt_outandabout
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    😉

    CaptJon
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    People are often surprised when you tell them Greenland is 14 times smaller than Africa

    yossarian
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    There are more goldfish than bicycles in Pplans

    Cougar
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    You can walk a cow upstairs but not downstairs because of the way the legs bend at the knee

    You need the services of a mate of mine.

    bencooper
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    Theologically, baby rabbits are a kind of fish.

    maccruiskeen
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    You can walk a cow upstairs but not downstairs because of the way the legs bend at the knee

    That explains a lot! Cheers.

    getting crowded up there is it?

    couldashouldawoulda
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    getting crowded up there is it?

    No – I was once asked to walk a cow downstairs, it didnt end well. A proper cow – bovine like. She wasnt having it. I never knew why til today!

    stevewhyte
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    Cannibalisim is not illegal…

    tazzymtb
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    I have no idea what a load of flanges is called though

    MBR

    AnyExcuseToRide
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    it was not black and white in the olden days

    weirdnumber
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    Three lefts make a right

    FeeFoo
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    That 80s comedy programmes can invent terms that virtually everyone uses instead of the original term:

    A group of baboons is called a flange.

    catfood
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    In Roman times Cs in latin were pronounced hard, so Caesar was pronounces Kaesar. They only became softened when the French started to speak latin in the middle ages.

    el_diablo
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    There were 4000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire

    and

    There are 9,000,000 bicycles in Beijing, that’s a fact, that’s a thing you can’t ignore!

    easygroove
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    The moon does not follow me

    zokes
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    There were 4000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire

    You can get holes inside a large hole.

    el_diablo
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    the longest word you can spell by using just one row of a keyboard is….

    typewriter

    oneoneoneone
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    all crisps sell by date is a Saturday. because of bar stock rotation.

    Drac
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    Caesar hated the Roman postal service.

    maccruiskeen
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    The earliest attestable accounts of mathematical infinity come from Zeno of Elea (ca. 490 BCE – ca. 430 BCE), a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher of southern Italy and member of the Eleatic School founded by Parmenides. Aristotle called him the inventor of the dialectic. He is best known for his paradoxes, which Bertrand Russell has described as “immeasurably subtle and profound”.

    In accordance with the traditional view of Aristotle, the Hellenistic Greeks generally preferred to distinguish the potential infinity from the actual infinity; for example, instead of saying that there are an infinity of primes, Euclid prefers instead to say that there are more prime numbers than contained in any given collection of prime numbers (Elements, Book IX, Proposition 20).

    However, recent readings of the Archimedes Palimpsest have hinted that at least Archimedes had an intuition about actual infinite quantities, but what Zeno, Archimedes and Aristotle were actually trying to articulate is how much firewood Mcmoonter can chop and pile.

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