One of my favourite facts is

[VinceNoir]

Another Elephant fact..

They are the only animal to have 4 knees.

Besides a pantomime horse.

 

[Over The Hill]

that Edinburgh is west of Carlisle, Manchester and Bristol.

I think it is just about north of all three!

(It may be further west)



What if you put 1000 volts through the elephant? That should make it jump.

 

[Hover Fly]

There is a proper name for the back of the knee.

Popliteal fossa

 

[montage]

Heard it said many times, my Tibetan Terrier must be an abberation, because she can see squirrels in the trees while walking along

Yes but it looks up by moving its whole head...not by rolling its eye's upwards

 

[Landslide]

The dot on a letter i is called a tittle.
I don't know if this also applies to the letter j.

 

[Cubist]

it does. And the line across a lower case "t" is a jot. Hence the expression "every jot and tittle", sometimes paraphrased as "crossing the t's and dotting the i's"

 

[Cubist]

Eskimos cannot fart.

 

[cyclenic]

Eskimos cannot fart.

why not?

 

[Fnaar]

One of my riper windy offerings could melt an igloo

 

[Auntie Helen]

it does. And the line across a lower case "t" is a jot. Hence the expression "every jot and tittle", sometimes paraphrased as "crossing the t's and dotting the i's"

Although I thought that came from Hebrew Yodh (not sure about the tittle), Matthew 5:18. In the Greek it is an 'iota' (name for letter i) and a 'dot' which would presumably refer to pointing in Hebrew (if it was around then).

 

[bonj2]

More people are alive today than have ever died in the history of the world.

This is bollocks. The total amount of people alive today is about ONE TENTH of the amount of people who have ever lived.

 

[bonj2]

Eskimos cannot fart.

why not?[/QUOTE]

it's illegal in eskimo-land. Carries a maximum fine of £500 or seven days in prison. Didn't you know that? Christ it's a good job you haven't gone there and tested it out!

 

[bonj2]

This is bollocks. The total amount of people alive today is about ONE TENTH of the amount of people who have ever lived.

What definitely is true though: there are more mobile phones in britain than there are people.

 

[Keith Oates]

I don't think that's exclusive to Britain!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Auntie Helen]

More people are alive today than have ever died in the history of the world.

I recall reading about 20 years ago that the dead outnumber the living 30 to 1.