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Random facts

just post random facts that come to mind here e.g. honey is bee's vomit
and stuff like that which most peepz dont really give a crap about...
also horses can't vomit and rats can go longer than camels without water

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Permalink Reply by Grey Wolf DarkHeart† on August 26, 2009 at 6:34am: I like the last fact! lolz
and it's really true! haha you shouldn't have stopped!
and that sucks... what If I had a pet swan and wanted to move to england with it?

also... another fact -- Scarlett swans are good luck (are they even real? well, either way, they're supposed to be!)
and the
"In York, excluding Sundays, it is legal to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow (This is in the UK - just so all you American's that live in York don't go shooting up Scotsmen with a bow and arrow on sunday's and claim that it's legal)."

if it's EXCLUDING sundays, then on sundays it would be illegal.... so i tihnk you mean ON sunday, don't ya?

umm... what other facts.....
well I heard that a mans index finger is the same length as his penis
(Men, 'fess up! you just looked at your finger, didn't you? and anyway, it might not be true, but I DID hear that!)
Umm....
you're a liar if you say the fastest earth creature is the cheetah
The cheetah is the fastest LAND MAMMEL (can go 100km/h, or 60mph)
the peregrine falcon is the fastest earth creature (and bird obviously)
they often go round 140mph (not sure what that is km/h) and, in a dive, they spin to gather more speed, and can hit 200mph (322 km/h)
thats faster than gravity! (though, please do NOT ask me how fast gravity is!); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ophelia on August 26, 2009 at 5:47pm: Whoops, yeah, that's what I meant... I may have just caused the death of hundreds of Scotsmen, and no one will be able to get off (excuse the pun) scott free! =O
Lol, I'm a girl, and I just looked at my index finger... It's not that big ='[
Okay, here are some more then ^_^
... I don't know why I know any of these.
Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult.
Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill.
Porcupines float in water.
A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein.
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times.
Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206.
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
The state of Florida is bigger than England =[
In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits... So, Dorothy, go throw some knives!
Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old... ew...
Owls are one of the only birds that can see the colour blue.. and I have no idea how they tested that.
Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes.
The starfish is one of the few animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out.
The elephant is one of the few mammals that can't jump... there'd probably be global catastrophes if it could.
The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly.
Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States.
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head.
In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs... I wanna buy one for my dad, lmao.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Grey Wolf DarkHeart† on August 28, 2009 at 10:39am: I think the reason forest firs travel faster uphill than downhill is cuz heat rises, and the top of the flame is the hottest point, so the trees/bush will be heated up wuicker from bottom-]top
and I knew the jiffy... well, I heard it before a few years ago lolz
and I knew you ended up with 200something bones and that you were born with more... couldn't remember how many though

Also, i knowthat one strand of hair is stronger than the same thickness of steel, or iron, or some other stron-as-anything metal

well, hair IS really strong! if it was one cm round then... well, could you even break it? lolz; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Alek (Ego Amor Tu) on September 1, 2009 at 2:05pm: God killed millions of more people in the bible than satan ever did
Lucifer isnt actually Satan and nor is he equal to him; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ophelia on September 2, 2009 at 8:37pm: Satan doesn't actually kill anyone in the Bible, as far as I know. He just torments them (eg. Job), tries to get them to renounce God, and tempts them with evil and sin... I don't think he actually kills anyone...
And, if you count the Flood... God's killed billions of people...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Grey Wolf DarkHeart† on September 3, 2009 at 9:16am: never realised that!!!!!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Holly on September 2, 2009 at 8:21pm: Do you know there is a bee that lays its eggs in cattipillars they hatch and eat the catapillar from the inside out. Pretty gastly the catippilar doesn't even know they are there until it's too late.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ophelia on September 2, 2009 at 8:35pm: Actually, that's pretty common among nature. And bees don't do it - their queen lays the eggs - wasps (the largest Hymenoptera group) do and also the ichneumon flies.
In fact, there's this one type of orb spider called the Plesiometa argrya, found in Costa Rica. It's also preyed upon by wasps, but in an interesting way (interesting, morbid... same thing). The wasp attacks the spider, temporarily paralyzing the spdier while it lays it's eggs in the tip of the spider's abdomen. Then it leaves, and the spider's mobility is restored. It continues to function as it always has done, building its webs, trapping insects, even as the wasp larvae cling to its abdomen and feed on its juices through small punctures. This continues for perhaps two weeks, and then something very odd occurs - the spider's behaviour changes. Somehow, by means unknown, the larvae, using chemical secretions, compel the spider to alter its web construction. Instead of a round web, the spider builds a smaller, reinforced platform. Once that's complete, the larvae kill their host and cocoon themselves in the new web, safe from wind, rain and predatory ants, and the next stage of their developement begins...
I find it awesome that mind control even happens within the natural world (minus The Jungle Book).
*checks facts and changes names... I can never remember the correct names!*; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Grey Wolf DarkHeart† on September 3, 2009 at 9:34am: omg no way! lolz
umm.....

you could drop a small animal from higher up, (eg. an ant from 100times it's body height) and it won't die, but if you drop a cow from 100 times it;'s height, it'll probably go SPLAT!
it's cuz the mass makes it heavier, it falls faster...... and hits the ground harder
haha and cockroaches only die if you cuz their heads off cuz they can't eat/drink anythin.....
and umm......
Spiders aren't insects they're arachnids. insects = 3 pairs of legs + 3 body segments
arachnids = 4peairs of legs and 2 body segments; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by NAYxna on October 8, 2009 at 12:11am: ok..hm..something random and interesting..thinking ...
oh! remember that kids movie finding nemo *the fish story*?well for those of you who don't actually know it, nemo's mom goes missing or dies or smthg like that, and he somehow (idk how) finds his dad and they both look for his mom. In any case the story portraits the nuclear family,right?mom,dad, son...well in reality, those fish, called teleostei, have attributes like sequential hermaphrodite, which means that whenever the female in the cuple goes missing, or dies, the male in line "dad" becomes female, it simply changes sex. So really the moment nemo found his dad, the male should've undergone a phase of sex change...i found that funny,and i was litterally laughing,while my nephew was all sad because of the mom missing and all...
but yea, thats some random fact :P; ▶ Reply to This