What amazing fact can you tell?

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Originally posted by JamieWednesday:
... the interesting fact about your Arab is that he can live for a whole year on one grain of rice.

I can't :S

Sorry, sorry. It's the mosquito that can live for a whole year on one grain of rice...I get those two muddled up because they're next to each other in the dictionary

Mosquito and mosque.

Dear departed Peter Cook!

Bruce

Earth is the only planet not named after a god.

The TV Scifi programme Torchwood is an anagram of Doctor Who

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Originally posted by musfed:
Earth is the only planet not named after a god.

Only since Pluto was downgraded! Woof! Woof!

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Originally posted by musfed:
Earth is the only planet not named after a god.

Isn’t it named after the Greek goddess Gea or Gaea

It was intended that the SR-71 Blackbird would be fuelled by COAL.

John Peel was in the Dallas Jailhouse basement and witnessed Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald.

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Originally posted by fatcat:

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Originally posted by musfed:
Earth is the only planet not named after a god.

Isn’t it named after the Greek goddess Gea or Gaea

or Gaia which means land or earth, a mother goddess, Terra Mater is the Roman equivalent.

If you find your brown sugar has formed itself into a solid lump, add a piece of bread to the packet, seal up, then the next day the sugar will run freely!

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Originally posted by Bruce Woodhouse:

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Originally posted by JamieWednesday:

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Originally posted by Flame:

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Originally posted by JamieWednesday:
... the interesting fact about your Arab is that he can live for a whole year on one grain of rice.

I can't :S

Sorry, sorry. It's the mosquito that can live for a whole year on one grain of rice...I get those two muddled up because they're next to each other in the dictionary

Mosquito and mosque.

Dear departed Peter Cook!

Bruce

How interesting

Japanese knotweed can grow 6 inches a day and take over the space size of a tennis court in less than a year. It can grow through walls and concerete and the roots can go down 6/7 meters.

It has to be buried 10 meters below ground to stop it re-growing!
IN BRITAIN -
Don't break the law. Remember, if you cause Japanese Knotweed to spread you are guilty of an offence under the Wildlife and Countryside Act, 1981.

Normal ballpoint pens do work in space.

If you want to persuade people in an audience (e.g. to buy something off you), you have a higher chance of being successful with people sat to your left than people sat to your right.

(As the light and images from you pass to the right-hemispheres of the brains, and this side is most widely involved with artistic thoughts.)

Just discovered that Naim also sounds great when reproducing a ball hitting the net

All mammals have 7 neck bones regardless whether it's a human or a giraffe.

The DIN in DIN plugs stands for "Deutsches Institut für Normung"

Guy Pratts' father was 50% of Randall & Hopkirk ( decd) AND wrote Little White Bull.

In measureable time, the Andromeda galaxy will collide into ours.

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In measureable time, the Andromeda galaxy will collide into ours.

Bet that will make your speakers wobble.
Don

Most sea turtles, despite being non-too-bright, and swimming thousands of miles (like Kilometers, only a bit bigger), somehow navigate back to the beach of their birth to lay their eggs.

The sex of the subsequent eggs is determined by the temperature of the sand.

The temperature of the sand is determined by the sun.

You produce about 2,000,000 new red blood cells every second. Each one contains about 270,000,000 haemaglobin molecules.

Arsenal have been in the top English division since 1919, so haven't been relegated in 90 years the closest to this is Everton who have been in the top division since 1953.



GoonerDean...

The earth is at its warmest when it is furthest from the sun (aphelion).

The reason for this is because at aphelion, the northern hemisphere faces the sun, and it has more land mass than the southern hemisphere. Land absorbs more heat than water.

The 2% distance difference between aphelion and perihelion (closest point) does not affect the temperature much.

The term "put a sock in it" supposedly comes from the earliest form of hifi volume control...putting a sock in the Gramaphone horn !

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The first Oxford v Cambridge boat race was on the Thames at Henley.

In 1829 (and no, I didn't just look that up).