Ahhh I'm a sucker for random facts, my favourite ones are the ones that make people say "no...really?!". I think everytime my family hear me say "Did you know..." they want to disown me.
Sharks have an immune system which makes it virtually impossible for them to contract cancer. Also, their livers are good for treating piles. I don't want to think how that was discovered. A pile-suffering scientist discovering a washed-up shark on a beach and thinking, I wonder if...
Lol I did not know this! And now I have a head full of scenarios about how they figured this out. Apparently the bull frog never sleeps? I'm asking you this as you're like Dr.Dolittle (I don't think it's been scientifically proven)
Also food for thought that you'd appreciate; Earth is the only planet not named after a god or goddess!
Ooh, don't get me started on astronomy. The earth, the moon and the sun all have names that virtually nobody uses (Terra, Luna, and Sol). Plus the earth has two moons (Cruithne is our second, tiny moon).
Jupiter's satellites are all named after mythological characters who have a connection with Zeus. And all of Uranus' satellites are named after characters of Shakespeare or Alexander Pope.
There you go - a bumper crop of mini-factoids. On the animal side, when a woodpecker retracts its tongue, it coils around its brain and this protects its head when it's pecking wood.
This might sound like a really dumb question but aren't Terra, Luna and Sol their latin names and is this the reason we don't call them by that?
Dappled my little space geek!
Did you know cats can make over 100 verbal sounds where as a dog can only make about 10?
Hehe, I wrote a story on here last year about how my dog could talk but after learning woof, howl and bark, he'd got really lazy about learning any new words.
P.S. On Venus, a day is longer than a year so you really do get all four seasons in a day.
Your Bono fact actually made me burst out laughing, and for a split second I considered googling it (I can't believe I admitted that)
Did you know the reason that chimps can't talk is because of just one gene called FOXP2? And did you know the Queen is actually a reptile? On a serious note people honestly believe the latter...
Nope - Terra, Luna and Sol are their real names (but yes, from Latin roots). Astrophysicists often use Sol and occasionally Luna, but never Terra.
Another one for you is the one about why Bono always wears sunglasses. It's because he was born without eyes and actually just has two maltesers in his eye sockets.
Is it normal to be a "know it all"?
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Ahhh I'm a sucker for random facts, my favourite ones are the ones that make people say "no...really?!". I think everytime my family hear me say "Did you know..." they want to disown me.
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Sharks have an immune system which makes it virtually impossible for them to contract cancer. Also, their livers are good for treating piles. I don't want to think how that was discovered. A pile-suffering scientist discovering a washed-up shark on a beach and thinking, I wonder if...
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Lol I did not know this! And now I have a head full of scenarios about how they figured this out. Apparently the bull frog never sleeps? I'm asking you this as you're like Dr.Dolittle (I don't think it's been scientifically proven)
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Ooh, don't get me started on astronomy. The earth, the moon and the sun all have names that virtually nobody uses (Terra, Luna, and Sol). Plus the earth has two moons (Cruithne is our second, tiny moon).
Jupiter's satellites are all named after mythological characters who have a connection with Zeus. And all of Uranus' satellites are named after characters of Shakespeare or Alexander Pope.
There you go - a bumper crop of mini-factoids. On the animal side, when a woodpecker retracts its tongue, it coils around its brain and this protects its head when it's pecking wood.
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This might sound like a really dumb question but aren't Terra, Luna and Sol their latin names and is this the reason we don't call them by that?
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Hehe, I wrote a story on here last year about how my dog could talk but after learning woof, howl and bark, he'd got really lazy about learning any new words.
P.S. On Venus, a day is longer than a year so you really do get all four seasons in a day.
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Your Bono fact actually made me burst out laughing, and for a split second I considered googling it (I can't believe I admitted that)
Did you know the reason that chimps can't talk is because of just one gene called FOXP2? And did you know the Queen is actually a reptile? On a serious note people honestly believe the latter...
Nope - Terra, Luna and Sol are their real names (but yes, from Latin roots). Astrophysicists often use Sol and occasionally Luna, but never Terra.
Another one for you is the one about why Bono always wears sunglasses. It's because he was born without eyes and actually just has two maltesers in his eye sockets.
Cats are very talkative lol.