Well I never knew that

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Sharks are independent from birth. I always thought their mums took care of them but apparently not.
Anyone else got anything they were surprised to discover.

I read your title as the frog from oy frog 😂

That's interesting!

Your thread has reminded me of sweets which I still cannot find any evidence of existing, they were probably called Sea Monsters, I think made by starburst and in an aqua blue - coloured packet, all different little chewy sweets in the shapes of sea creatures. They were out about 2004. Does anyone reading along remember them!?!?

Going back to sharks. IIRC, some sharks do actually develop inside the mother who then gives birth to live young. However, each baby is self contained in a sac and there is no placenta as there is with mammals.

A Narwhal tusk is a lengthened tooth. Canine, I think.

Can you tell that DS had a serious marine wildlife obsession...

PrincessHoneysuckle, thenightsky
slightly different, but I had caps on two of my teeth twenty years ago, was told I'd need to get them replaced after ten years - and they are still fine.

I heard about the wombat poo cube thing quite recently too.

Edinburgh is further west than Bristol.

Elephants can't jump.

Edinburgh is further west than Bristol.

Norwich is further north than Birmingham.

Oliver Bonas, not a charity shop - who knew?!

Young Children don't have knee caps
They start forming from anything between 2-6 years and even some 8-10 years olds are newly forming

Oh and planes can't reverse. When it taxis out from a gate it's being pushed not reversing

I just mentioned this thread to my DP and read out the jelly tot post and he sung The Jelly Tot song he'd remembered from his childhood .

I was 35 when I found out that capers aren’t tiny fish...

I found out yesterday that pine nuts come from pine cones - my mind was absolutely blown, don’t know where I thought they came from before that!

If you mouth "elephant juice" into a mirror it looks as if you are saying I love you

Try mouthing, 'Van Goff'.

Going back to sharks. IIRC, some sharks do actually develop inside the mother who then gives birth to live young. However, each baby is self contained in a sac and there is no placenta as there is with mammals.

Some sharks have a pregnancy with multiple embryos, but as they grow one kills the others.

The education curriculum is different around the world, my cousins sister in law is South African, she's come over to attend uni but has to do a 6 month bridging course first. I was amazed that there isn't a minimum standard that the world has to reach.

I don't think it is so much a minimum standard, but different subjects are more relevant to different populations. South Africa is a multilingual country so children learn at least two languages. From about age 10 most subjects are taught in English of Aricaans, so most children are learning in their second language.

They also teach a lot of history and social studies/equalities due to the fairly recent history of racism.

If you have A Levels you can miss 101 classes in a US college, not because English education is better but because we specialise sooner.

In the UK we do not learn what to do in an earthquake, in Japan and New Zealand ift is a fairly basic skill, almost like learning to cross the road.

Norwich is further north than Birmingham.

And if you drive from Birmingham to Norwich, you're travelling from one side (hemisphere) of the world to the other.

@doodlejump1980, I only found that out about 5 years ago. I thought they were like anchovies. I still do t know what they are. I was too embarrassed to ask 😳

@StegosaurusRex think they’re flower buds?

lostsouls my Dad was one of the families that slept in Chislehurst Caves nightly during WWII.

tssdncop my Dad was one of the families that slept in Chislehurst Caves nightly during WWII.*

You should get him to write down or record his memories of it if he'll talk about it, it's a fascinating place.

And if you drive from Birmingham to Norwich, you're travelling from one side (hemisphere) of the world to the other.

I know I'm hardly unique in this but I live in the eastern hemisphere and cross over to the western hemisphere every day for work.

The correct term for the opposite of albino is melanistic.

I knew about panthers. Think it was from a fiction books I read as a teenager about shapeshifters
Bungee jumping was invented in Bristol. I always assumed it was somewhere a bit more exotic than that.

Even if you wrote out all of the numbers up to a trillion in words, there's only one single number that has the same number of letters in its English name as the value that it represents.

When written out as words, the lowest number containing an 'A' is either 100 (if written as A hundred) or 101 (if written as ONE hundred and one).

@DryIce I just had to google the panther fact, I had no idea and thought it was a proper breed. Hats off to you 🎩