[Alandriel (OP)]

Learn (or re-discover) something new every day  []



Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200

[Alandriel (OP)]

There are 1600 calories in a pint of Hippopotamus milk.

... now you know why....  []

[JimBob]

In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!

[Quantum_Vaccuum]

Chuck norris can belive its not butter,
Chuck Norris is not Politically Correct. He is just Correct. Always.


lol

well anyway heres one

Did you know that An elephant trunk has no bone but 40,000 muscles?
A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation.
Ocean waves can travel as fast as a JET Plane.
The cicada, a fly found in Africa, spends 17 years of its life sleeping; and only two weeks is awake during which mates and then dies.

[paul.fr]

Chuck Norris is not Politically Correct. He is just Correct. Always.

Chuck Norris, has just come out in support of one of the presidentual hopfulls. So time will tell if he is politically correct or not.

[Alandriel (OP)]

In a full grown rye plant, the total length of roots may reach 380 miles (613 km)




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for a friend

[Alandriel (OP)]

One more before I log out


In Vienna, after playing the Moor of Venice in the opera Othello, Placcido Domingo received 80 minutes of solid clapping and took 101 curtain calls.



What a voice!

Recommended: To hear him sing, listen to http://www.musicremedy.com/p/Placido_Domingo/videos/TAmo_Piu-5483.html



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for a friend

[Alandriel (OP)]

I swear.... this is the last for today


The world's longest acronym was found in the USSR:

NIIOMTPLABOPARMBETZHELBETRABSBOMONIMONKONOTDTEKHSTROMONT

Meaning:
Laboratory for Shuttering, Reinforcement, Concrete and Ferroconcrete Operations for Composite-monolithic and Monolithic Constructions of the Department of Technology of Building Assembly Operations of the Scientific Research Institute of the Organization for Building Mechanization and Technical Aid of the Academy of Building and Architecture of the USSR.

That's easy to remember. Now just tell me what it means!


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for a friend

[JimBob]

In a full grown rye plant, the total length of roots may reach 380 miles (613 km)




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for a friend

Ergot, that is a LOT of root.     

[Bass]

Sperm whales have the heaviest brain of any presently living animal.

[Alandriel (OP)]

on the topic of brains and furrows and such......






Wrinkles Are Good





I'm NOT kidding ~ you can relax now  []





Your brain is folded in on itself which gives it a wrinkled look


Scientific fact - the more wrinkles, the better off (smarter) you are


So there  []

[JimBob]

During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!

See the Native Amreican elephants at http://www.tappedintoelephants.com/asp/index.php

These elephants also enjoy scientific puns, UNLIKE "certain" people whose name starts with "A" on this site.

[JimBob]

Slugs have 4 noses.

[Alandriel (OP)]

Elephants and slugs.....what made you pick those I wonder?



And there we are thinking we know ourselves so very well..... or do we?


- It is impossible to lick your elbow [edited to add, *after* boredChemists post] THE OUTSIDE !!!  []

- Your brain operates on the same amount of power that would light a 10-watt light bulb

- You use 200 muscles to take one step

- There are 5 million hair follicles on an average adult

- Your brain is more active during the night than the day


Sweet dreams  []

[Alandriel (OP)]

Now be honest.... who's just tried to DO the first one listed above??


PS: I just noticed - this has become a sticky  []! Thanks - it's an honour  []

[Bored chemist]

Me, and it's perfectly possible to lick the inside of your elbow.

[JimBob]

PS: I just noticed - this has become a sticky  []! Thanks - it's an honour  []

Yes, it is getting to be rather popular. SO ....

                           

[Karen W.]

Now be honest.... who's just tried to DO the first one listed above??


PS: I just noticed - this has become a sticky  []! Thanks - it's an honour  []

Me too, and I was only about an inch away from the outside of my elbow! LOL.. My arm is short! LOL!

[Alandriel (OP)]

Bored Chemist is ever so smart of course, so much so I had to go and edit the post LOL

Short arm, aye, Karen? Almost did it then What do they say about practice.....LOLOLOL




Nature power for you today:



Seeds from a wild flower, the Arctic Lupine, found in Alaska, have grown in the lab after being frozen in the ground for 10,000 years.




On February 20, 1943 in a cornfield near the village of Paricutin, Mexico, the ground cracked open and began to spew red-hot rocks. A volcano was born. It grew to 35 feet the first day. By 1952, it had soared to 1,352 feet.




There are giant waterfalls under the ocean!
The largest cataract exists beneath the Denmark Strait between Greenland and Iceland. This underwater waterfall drops nearly 11,500 feet, more than three times Venezuela’s Angel Falls, the earth’s highest waterfall at 3,212 feet. The submarine waterfall carries at least 175 million cubic feet of water per second, making it 350 times as voluminous as Guaira Falls on the border of Brazil and Paraguay which was once considered to carry more water than any other waterfall on the earth’s surface.
[sorry - no photo  []]

[opus]

The largest nematode can grow up to 6 ft long and lives in a sperm whale.