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Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.

Its illegal for a woman to eat chocolate on a bus.

111,111 x 111,111 = 12345654321

Crabs can grow back broken/missing claws.

When moths fly they use the moon to keep them going in a straight line by keeping the light on one side of their body.

So when they are flying into your light it is because they are keeping the light on the same side of their body causing them to fly in circles closer and closer to the light until they hit it.

To think until I read this yesterday in a book my son was given I thought that they just loved light.
=].

loopylou6 and SecretNutellaFix you are both wrong which is a shame really But if you do accidently kill somebody whilst practicing archery (as long as all proper precautions have been taken and they wander in front of you) and you 'accidentally' kill them you can't be prosecuted for it

Every 3 days a human stomach replaces it's lining.

It takes the Hubble telescope 97 minutes to orbit the Earth.

ExCityOfChesterArcherTiggaxx

oh gosh! So human light pollution has serious impact on moth navigation!

Cod fish have a spike under their chin called a barble.
Barble is my favourite word to say out loud, ever.

Daddy long legs thingys are actually so venomous they could kill you. fortunately, their teeth cannot pierce human skin.

Add message | Report | Message poster SarahStratton Sun 05-Jun-11 19:47:10
Sorry, sorry amberleaf. I was doing the horses. Yes that's the stuff, it looks green but comes out clear. Brilliant stiff

Titters and sniggers because I'm childish and have been thinking about dirty sex. But not as dirty as Sarah

Stop a threatened sneeze, you know the one that makes you look odd waiting for it, by rubbing your tongue on the roof of your mouth.

The round discs on a tambourine are called jingles.

When you're riding a motorbike at speeds over 15-20mph, to steer left you turn the handlebars slightly to the right and vice-versa.

The SysRq key on a PC's keyboard dates back to IBM mainframes from the 1970s.

Measure the actual length of a river including all the meanders. Measure the straight-line distance from the river's start to its end and divide the actual length by the straight-line length. Do that for a lot of rivers. The answer averages out to Pi.

The groove between your nose and upper lip is called a philtrum. It serves no purpose.

fruit flies have a courtship ritual that involves the male "singing" to the female by way of buzzing its wings, he follows this with oral sex - i kid you not!

girls who look after horses don't bite their fingernails.

Garlic

Have to confess was taking the pee.

Was hoping you would realise it as reference to earlier in the thread using the word 'gullible'.

Was in silly mood last night, perhaps a good thing you ignored !

Kennypowers, the philtrum is where your face molded togther as a feotus.
Before that, your mouth was in two parts on your neck, ready to grow into gills, then your face pulls itself together to form your nose and mouth. This leaves the groove and a faint line down the roof of your mouth.

My only weird fact is that humans are the only speacies that need help to give birth

The "myth" that carrots allow you to see in the dark was started during the battle of Britain by the RAF as an excuse to explain why our pilots could see the German fighters at night - this was in order to hide the invention of radar.

Bees are democratic. The queen will make a suggestion to the hive, and if the bees like it, they jump up and down in a little dance to show approval. If they don't like, they sit quietly. If enough bees like it, the suggestion is approved.

The commonly used vulgarity "Cunt" is a derivative of the middle English word "Quaynte" (without Google I don't know if spelt it right), which was very similar to the word "cute", and usually used to describe something small and pleasing. It was first used as a description of the female genetals circa 1310 in Chaucers "The Millers Tale":

"Prively he grabbed her by the quaynte".

The spelling has changed to it's current form & meaning. So never use the word as an insult, you saying they are cute and pleasing.

JemimaMuddleFuck

And proud of it.

Shame it's forgotten what it's used for :(

Ooh Atomic! Liking that...I also heard it's related to 'coney', you prob know, another word for rabbit - think furry, hidden, hole. And 'cunning' - hidden.

PigletJohn

Girls who look after horses do bite their fingernails. Sadly, there doesn't seem to be a lot of handwashing going on first.

Girls who look after horses may bite their fingernails. If so they, possibly, possess the strongest constitutions ever.

Using the word 'gay' to describe homosexuals started in the 1970's after an equality march in New York where the participants carried banners saying I'm as Good As You.

Gap stands for Gay And Proud.

What, Gap the shop?

A two fingered kitkat is a biscuit but a four fingered kitkat is a chocolate bar.

And on that note...

In ancient Rome, what would now be considered homasexual sex was often conducted by heterosexual men as a show of the level of their station and to gain favour with their superiors. He who was lower in station would be the "taker". It showed submission to your social betters.