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What's the best/most outlandish/favourite fact in your repatoire?

And male kangaroos have 2 penises. Something very odd going on in that reproductive system.

Perfect unforgettable fact. I hope it is a fact. I'm off to find out...

I used to know a deaf man who suffered from schizophrenia. He believed that he was getting messages from his TV. However, since he couldn't hear it, he saw these messages as subtitles.

The wide Sargasso Sea.

Such a romantic sounding place and full of eels!

All Russian railway station buildings are called 'вокзал' (pronounced 'vokzal'). This is because they’re named after Vauxhall in London, where the famous pleasure-gardens were situated in the 18th century. An Englishman who taught the heir to the Russian throne eventually opened a pleasure-garden in Moscow which was named 'Vokzal', after the original, and this spawned several others, including a particularly lavish one in Pavlovsk, in St Petersburg, in the 1830s which was at the end of a new railway-line. After this, all Russian station buildings came to be called 'Vokzal'.

(There's another theory sometimes put about that a Russian delegation came to London to study the railway network in the 19thc and mistakenly thought 'Vauxhall' was the word for 'railway station', but that seems to be an urban myth)

Do they use one hole at a time? Or two?

Never thought I'd be pondering that on a Sunday morning

Genuinely fascinating. Thank you.

Seems legit

It does. I found a video of an otter tucking snacks into its pocket.

I told DS, all excited, on a walk this morning, but he already knew. Apparently otters also hold each others flippers while snoozing on their backs so they don;t drift away from each other, he told me. Another fun fact.

The rarest hair/eye combination is a blue eyed redhead. Only about 0.17 % of people are.
Blue eyes and red hair are both a mutation.
Both parents have to carry the mutated gene to have a redhead together.
DH and I are both from families which are almost all brown /black haired.
But we have 2 blue eyed redheads !

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The Easter island head statues are not just heads. They are attached to bodies buried under the ground.

We are due for a pole shift on earth. GPS has had to be updated more rapidly in the last few years which is the clue it is coming up.I won’t say any more, too scary and it isn’t something anyone is really talking about.

Oh ffs now I've googled it. Looks like I'm not sleeping tonight or possibly ever again

@coldcallerbaiter @partiallydeflatedbutoptimistic I'm scared to look it up now!! I do tend to worry about things I have very little control over (climate change being a great example. Do my best but the level of stress vs the impact feels completely not worth it!) I remember a few years ago though there was an article 'updating' the star signs because everything has moved so much, including us. I wonder if it's similar to that!

Oops sorry to scare, it could be minor as in migrating birds being confused or major like the land stands still but all else shifts (v bad) or something in between.

Interesting point in relation to the the Artic and shifts. There is an old map in existence that shows it, impossible as covered in ice for millennia and the land outlined under the ice cannot be seen without modern methods. They say the map is from before a prior shift, no/not much ice. 55 km a year it is shifting at the current rate, so whose turn next to be the pole?

so weird to think the UK could be in the southern hemisphere!!

Worse is if North Korea decides to do a live nuclear missile test, the earth shifts round 90 degrees and the missile accidentally hits Sydney or Mumbai. That really would not go down well.

Just popping in to see if @coldcallerbaiter has done any more interesting but frightening posts. 😅

😂This made me guffaw. DS asked what I laughed at so I read your post and he would like you to know that his most interesting spooky fact is that spiders have clear blood!

They what!?

What does that even mean, why clear blood? I think I might block this thread. 😂😫

We've been on quite the journey of discovery in this house in the last few minutes!

Update, they do not have clear blood. However they don't have hemoglobin, which is what gives our blood the colour. So it kinda appears grey/clear when not oxygenated and blue when it is.

So...spiders are technically blue blooded, which has made me laugh!

There is however an animal which genuinely does have clear blood - the crocodile ice fish. Who knew!

Is this true? They see hands in the air?? Of connected to people?

What would it mean?