Did You Know.....

[elphaba91]

Did you know the platypus is a mammal but lays eggs.

As is the echidna. They are called monotremes and are the only species of their kind, although there is evidence that they were once far more widespread.

 

[jevs]

As is the echidna. They are called monotremes and are the only species of their kind, although there is evidence that they were once far more widespread.

I had forgotten about the echidna.

 

[elphaba91]

- Crocodile dung was used in ancient Egypt as the first form of contraceptive.

- Babies are born with over 300 bones, but adults only have 206.

- You can't fold a piece of paper in half more than 7 times.

- Donald Duck was banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

- Your thigh bone is as strong as concrete.

- A dentist invented the electric chair.

- The toilet was invented by a man named Thomas Crapper.

- The first VCR was made in 1956 and was the size of a piano.

- There are more plastic flamingoes in America than real ones.

- Honey doesn't have a use-by date because it never spoils.

By the way, do you American ladies get random facts on your pad wrappers too? Or is that just an Aussie thing and you'll think I'm really weird?

 

[jevs]

- Crocodile dung was used in ancient Egypt as the first form of contraceptive.

- Babies are born with over 300 bones, but adults only have 206.

- You can't fold a piece of paper in half more than 7 times.

- Donald Duck was banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

- Your thigh bone is as strong as concrete.

- A dentist invented the electric chair.

- The toilet was invented by a man named Thomas Crapper.

- The first VCR was made in 1956 and was the size of a piano.

- There are more plastic flamingoes in America than real ones.

- Honey doesn't have a use-by date because it never spoils.

By the way, do you American ladies get random facts on your pad wrappers too? Or is that just an Aussie thing and you'll think I'm really weird?

I knew I had seen some of them before

 

[ronandannette]

- Crocodile dung was used in ancient Egypt as the first form of contraceptive.

- Babies are born with over 300 bones, but adults only have 206.

- You can't fold a piece of paper in half more than 7 times.

- Donald Duck was banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

- Your thigh bone is as strong as concrete.

- A dentist invented the electric chair.

- The toilet was invented by a man named Thomas Crapper.

- The first VCR was made in 1956 and was the size of a piano.

- There are more plastic flamingoes in America than real ones.

- Honey doesn't have a use-by date because it never spoils.

By the way, do you American ladies get random facts on your pad wrappers too? Or is that just an Aussie thing and you'll think I'm really weird?

Oh good gravy...can somebody please tell me where the other +/- 96 go and how they get there? Anybody? Please...

 

[Goofy_Disney_Dad]

Oh good gravy...can somebody please tell me where the other +/- 96 go and how they get there? Anybody? Please...

I think some multiples join together and become one.

 

[jevs]

Oh good gravy...can somebody please tell me where the other +/- 96 go and how they get there? Anybody? Please...

Some of them fuse together before adulthood - that's about all I know about it, and it may not even be correct.

ETA: The bones - not the children lol.

 

[jevs]

I think some multiples join together and become one.

As awful as that sounds some multiples do fuse together, kind of: one may die and then they get absorbed by the other, it's called vanishing twin syndrome. It was one of my (many) worries when pregnant with my twins.

 

[ronandannette]

As awful as that sounds some multiples do fuse together, kind of: one may die and then they get absorbed by the other, it's called vanishing twin syndrome. It was one of my (many) worries when pregnant with my twins.

OK, enough!! Now not only do I need to know why this happens, I also need statistics on how common it is thought to be ...yawn - I hope tomorrow is a slow day at work so I can nap at my desk.

 

[Clifton Tesh]

Contrary to a popular southern tall tale, the granddaddy long legs (Opilionids) is not the most venomous spider in the world. It isn't even a spider, and it doesn't even have venom glands.

However it's look alike, the cellar spider (Pholcidae), is a spider, does have venom glands, and can bite a human, but their venom does not have an adverse effect on a human.

So if you ever hear someone telling you that the granddaddy long legs is the most venomous spider in the world, one bite could kill a human, but their fangs are too small to bite a human... you can now inform them that they are incorrect

 

[Cantw8]

- Crocodile dung was used in ancient Egypt as the first form of contraceptive.

- Babies are born with over 300 bones, but adults only have 206.

- You can't fold a piece of paper in half more than 7 times.

- Donald Duck was banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

- Your thigh bone is as strong as concrete.

- A dentist invented the electric chair.

- The toilet was invented by a man named Thomas Crapper.

- The first VCR was made in 1956 and was the size of a piano.

- There are more plastic flamingoes in America than real ones.

- Honey doesn't have a use-by date because it never spoils.

By the way, do you American ladies get random facts on your pad wrappers too? Or is that just an Aussie thing and you'll think I'm really weird?

Really? You Aussies get fun facts on your pads???? How cool is that?????

 

[Cantw8]

Did You Know....

1. If you somehow found a way to extract all of the gold from the bubbling core of our lovely little planet, you would be able to cover all of the land in a layer of gold up to your knees.
2. McDonalds calls frequent buyers of their food “heavy users.”
3. The average person spends 6 months of their lifetime waiting on a red light to turn green.
4. The largest recorded snowflake was in Keogh, MT during year 1887, and was 15 inches wide.
5. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
6. There are more lifeforms living on your skin than there are people on the planet.
7. Southern sea otters have flaps of skin under their forelegs that act as pockets. When diving, they use these pouches to store rocks and food.
8. In 1386 a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.

 

[CPanther95]

6% of all the people that have ever lived on Earth are alive today.

 

[Goofy_Disney_Dad]

As awful as that sounds some multiples do fuse together, kind of: one may die and then they get absorbed by the other, it's called vanishing twin syndrome. It was one of my (many) worries when pregnant with my twins.

Context is everything...

 

[PollyannaMom]