Odd factoids

[Dirk]

Moles have been timed at 9mph when negotiating their tunnels.
They have kitchens, as well, in tunnel chambers. They eat mostly earthworms, and keep them alive and immobile by biting their heads, and then store them in the chamber. As many as 470 worms have been recorded in one chamber, according to the Mammal Society.

 

[bruce1530]

Christmas tree light bulbs are designed to fail randomly, ensuring that the owner has a fun-filled evening tracking down the faulty bulb in the string.

 

[Drago]

Navy SEALs are fed raw fish.

 

[Dirk]

Navy SEALs are fed raw fish.

And part of their training is to balance a beach ball on their noses.

 

[Beebo]

Quick arithmetic trick

your age + the year you were born = 2017!

Doesn’t work for me or anyone else with a birthday in December, which hasn’t happened yet.

 

[TVC]

The phone number for Amazon Prime is 35711 131719

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Also; turtles have the short legs, not for the walking .... But only a handful of people Can recognise the source of this quote

99% of readers have now googled this.

Edit, and 99% of those are still none the wiser.

 

[Drago]

It took 6 years for Churchill to defeat Hitler in the 1939 Pan-European Cheroot Smoke-Off.

 

[Drago]

The Yamaha FJ1200 was the first vehicle to fail the DoT noise test because it wheelspan past both microphones. The test had to be revised after that.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Jesus never died on the cross. He's alive and well, and working on a far less ambitious project.

 

[Drago]

Jesus never died on the cross. He's alive and well, and working on a far less ambitious project.

But he is cross.

 

[bruce1530]

The Christmas Tree was invented by (and named after) Mr Arthur H Christmas in November, 1879, as a novelty. He never anticipated that it would be adopted as a seasonal symbolic decoration.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Early historians would eat the meat off any carcasses they recovered, which is why there are only bones in museums.

Apparently tyrannosaurs tastes like chicken.

 

[jefmcg]

Dirk seems very knowledgeable about drag acts, not that there's anything wrong with that.

Be careful. That's the sort of territory that's out of bounds, for the moment at least. #NotPolitics.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

The Christmas Tree was invented by (and named after) Mr Arthur H Christmas in November, 1879, as a novelty. He never anticipated that it would be adopted as a seasonal symbolic decoration.

It's not often spoken about, but one of his favoured perversions is still celebrated by the juxtaposition of the fairy and the tree.