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shootthebandit said:
actually this is apparently false.. they can pierce our skin.. if i remember correctly it was on myth busters <3
Ah, now that you mention it, I do vaguely remember a Mythbusters episode about that.MetalBride said:
Damn.
After she ruined duckies, kitties and puppies, I dared not ask.Pandalisk said:
Seriously. She went into detail.
Horrifying detail.
Koala Bears are not born with the bacteria they need to digest Eucalyptus leaves and as cubs must eat their mothers feces in order to get the necessary bacteria, talk about taking shit from mom.Monkfish Acc. said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdQPPXqpfPQ
Did you know that sea otters can have more than a million hairs per square inch in their fur coat? They also eat 25% of their body weight every day, and spend about a third of their life grooming.
Kinda doubt it's true, but apparently whale ejaculate could behead a man.
Kinda doubt it's true, but apparently whale ejaculate could behead a man.
The bullet actually descends right as it's shot (assuming it's shot parallel to the ground). They receive none, if very little, lift from being fired. It will just travel much further horizontally than the still object.deanoxxx said:
Jonah was noclipping! HAX!sooperman said:
... What did I do to deserve this?Rigs83 said:
Was it the murderin'?
But I really like murderin'...
(I actually had already heard this. Koalas are a fountain of odd facts, aren't they?)
Some people in my school a few years ago entered a "science fair" kind of thing (BT Young Scientist, if you must know). There project was training a goldfish to swim through hoops. proving that they do retain some information.PureChaos said:
If it shot perfectly horizontally it begins its decent immediately after leaving the barrel, and accelerates at 9.8 meters per second per second until it hits the floor. The muzzle velocity will determine the horizontal distance traveled, the height off the ground determines the time of flight. I can put that algebraically but its kind of hard to write algebra in text form!deanoxxx said:
The first recorded use of this "fact" was in an internet article describing all sorts of stupid stuff that people believe, this was one that the author made up herself.Supraliminal said:
(http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/spiders.asp)
The koala is not a bear. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koala) Although hardly anyone outside Australia cares to make the distinction, so I'll let this one slide.Rigs83 said:
Technically no. He ate very little meat, but was not vegetarian and had a love of Bavarian sausages.Rickyvantof said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler's_vegetarianism
Jonah was actually swallowed by a fish, not a whale.ShotgunShaman said:
The Daddy-Long legs issue is made more complicated by the fact that there are several species that go by that name. In britain it's a crane-fly, in Australia Pholcidae. Crane-flies are non-venomous. Pholcidae IS, can penetrate human skin, but is incredibly mild.shootthebandit said:
This is the most wrong fact I have ever seen. If this were true the population would halve every generation (unless they have MASSIVE litters)Triple AD said:
In fact, they are serially monogamous (one partner a year. Inter-year monogamy of 15%) and lay one egg at a time.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emporer_penguin#Courtship_and_breeding)
Apparently, there is a one in 200 billion chance of dying by tea cosy.
And daddy-long-legs are called that in Britain as well.
And daddy-long-legs are called that in Britain as well.