You learn something new every day...

[Kaysea]

Cabbage is 91% water.  

Cows, rice fields and garbage dumps are the largest producers of methane gas.  

The statuettes on Rolls Royces are called The Spirit of Ecstasy!

In ancient times, parsley wreaths were used to ward off drunkenness.

A Boeing 747 plane holds about 216,846 litres of fuel. (I'd hate to pay that fuel bill!)

The garfish has green bones.

Hair grows slowest at night.

The skeleton of a 70kg body weighs about 13kg.  (There goes my excuse!!)

If you have ozostomia, you are suffering from halitosis, or bad breath.

[Jane]

The statuettes on Rolls Royces are called The Spirit of Ecstasy!

:: preens :: I knew that one!

[Patrick]

Cabbage is 91% water.  

Cows, rice fields and garbage dumps are the largest producers of methane gas.  

Hair grows slowest at night.

I knew all those! Go random knowledge that can never be practically used unless I go on Jepordy!

[Kaysea]

If all the gold suspended in the worlds seawater were mined, each person on earth would receive about 4kg.  (I'm off to the beach - anyone wanna join me?)

When born, the white whale is black!

The bird that lays the largest egg in relation to its own size is the Kiwi.

When first born, a shrimp is male. Over time it gradually evolves into a female.

Argentinians eat more meat than any other nation in the world.

Americans consume about 100 acres of pizza a day.

It is estimated that a plastic container will not decompose for as long as 50,000 years.

The only part of the human anatomy that has no blood supply is the cornea.

[PastMember]

On average people fear spiders more than they do death. You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

You are more likely to be killed by a bee sting, or an attact by a wildboar than by a shark.

A group of doves is called a salvation.

A ducks quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.

When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.

An Ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.

[Mikel]

A ducks quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.

Call me a party pooper, but I know why

[PastMember]

A ducks quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.

Call me a party pooper, but I know why

Ok! Tell us then!!!  

[Mikel]

A ducks quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.

Call me a party pooper, but I know why

Ok! Tell us then!!!  

You only hear ducks out in filed or on water, where  there is nothing for sound to bounce off of to cause an echo.

[Patrick]

A ducks quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.

Call me a party pooper, but I know why

Ok! Tell us then!!!  

You only hear ducks out in filed or on water, where  there is nothing for sound to bounce off of to cause an echo.

Haha Very funny.  I don't think thats what she meant.

[Mikel]

A ducks quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.

Call me a party pooper, but I know why

Ok! Tell us then!!!  

You only hear ducks out in filed or on water, where  there is nothing for sound to bounce off of to cause an echo.

Haha Very funny.  I don't think thats what she meant.

Maybe not, but it is true.  If you put a duck in an echo-likely environment, it will echo just like any other sound.

[Vix]

Are you sure?

[Mikel]

Yeah, I read it in Scientific America a few decades ago

[Jane]

On average people fear spiders more than they do death. You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

I would just like to say, from somebody who agrees with the first part of this, that phobias about spiders have naff all to do with them being poisonous.  We don't have deadly spiders here, and all the ones we do have are small (compared to some found overseas) and that makes NOT ONE BIT OF DIFFERENCE TO ME.  If it was rational, it wouldn't be a phobia.

[Eimi]

I hate spiders, but I'm not afraid of being bitten by one.  It's their eight legs and eight eyes that get me, and their speed and unpredicatblility.  Thankfully, living in Japan has helped me somewhat.  I figure its rather hard to be afraid of a spider as big as my thumbnail when I've run into ones as big as my face...

[Patrick]

Oh yeah spiders scare the crap out of me.  And its not like I'm scared of getting bitten or anything.  No I'm very respectful of spiders in their natural habitat, but if I see one anywhere near me in MY house.  Its dead.  Its just the way they move.  *shivers*