Random Facts.

Little Miss Magic's Mama · April 6, 2007 7:57 pm

CaptainP wrote:Your brain is 80% water

This explains the day that I've had...

bravedave · Post by **bravedave** » April 6, 2007 10:02 pm

CaptainP wrote:Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy

Also the only vector...

bravedave · Post by **bravedave** » April 6, 2007 10:04 pm

Time flies like the wind.
Fruit flies like bananas.

(My apologies if you're PWI.)

CaptainP · Post by **CaptainP** » April 9, 2007 10:21 am

The mad Emperor Caligula once decided to go to war with the Roman God of the sea, Poseidon, and ordered his soldiers to throw their spears into the water at random.

CaptainP · Post by **CaptainP** » April 9, 2007 10:21 am

More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.

CaptainP · Post by **CaptainP** » April 9, 2007 10:21 am

Average speed of Heinz ketchup from the mouth of an opened bottle: 25 miles per year

CaptainP · Post by **CaptainP** » April 9, 2007 10:21 am

During it's lifetime an oyster changes its sex from male to female and back several times

CaptainP · Post by **CaptainP** » April 9, 2007 10:22 am

There is a 1 in 685,000 chance that you will accidentally drown in your own bath

phjrsaunt · Post by **phjrsaunt** » April 9, 2007 10:26 am

This is one of the cutest danged babies I've ever seen!

flyboy55 · Post by **flyboy55** » April 9, 2007 10:38 am

I miss the goat.

Capt.Flock · Post by **Capt.Flock** » April 9, 2007 10:44 am

flyboy55 wrote:I miss the goat.

A female goat (called a doe) usually has 2 kids a year.
Most births occur in the spring after a 5 month gestation period.
A male goat is called a buck, and a neutered male is called a whether.
Baby goats are referred to as kids. Also, goats have only two teats (cows have 4).
Goats don't have any upper front teeth!
Both male and female goats can have beards

LIPH · Post by **LIPH** » April 9, 2007 10:45 am

CaptainP wrote:During it's lifetime an oyster changes its sex from male to female and back several times

So if you tell an oyster to go ***** itself, it can?

chippewa · Post by **chippewa** » April 17, 2007 8:58 am

The first documented use of the word Nerd is in the 1950 Dr. Seuss story, If I Ran the Zoo.

CaptainP · Post by **CaptainP** » April 17, 2007 9:31 am

Mosquitos have forty-seven teeth

bravedave · Post by **bravedave** » April 17, 2007 9:50 am

Steely Dan's 1976 Don't Take Me Alive was inspired by Charles Whitman, the Texas clock tower shooter.

On the same album, Royal Scam, they paid tribute to Owlsey Stanley, soundman for the Grateful Dead and San Francisco's Top Chef, with Kid Charlemagne.

lovin_jimmy · Post by **lovin_jimmy** » April 17, 2007 12:14 pm

for evry 5 lbs. of excess fat, you have 1 MILE worth of capillaries

chippewa · Post by **chippewa** » April 17, 2007 12:17 pm

lovin_jimmy wrote:for evry 5 lbs. of excess fat, you have 1 MILE worth of capillaries

I felt better not knowing that random fact.

Capt.Flock · Post by **Capt.Flock** » April 17, 2007 12:58 pm

Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down -- hence the expression "to get fired

CaptainP · Post by **CaptainP** » April 20, 2007 10:43 am

The quartz crystal in your wristwatch vibrates 32768 times a second

CaptainP · Post by **CaptainP** » April 20, 2007 10:43 am

Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants