does anyone have any weird facts?
 

if you do post them! probably sounding really stupid now :dunce: ....but is this true?
A ducks quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why?

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i just felt like confusing myself more than usual today!

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"Eskimos use Bauxite as snuff"

Don't even know if it is true, but we had it made into a poster on the living roon wall when I was a student.

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The duck's quack not echoing is one of those internet myths / urban legends.
See these links amongst others.
http://www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk/a.../duck/duck.htm

http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae482.cfm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3086890.stm

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Hemerocallis (day Lily's) are edible (taste like lettuce).:scratch:

Also you could always check here to see if facts presented are really true or not http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax

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If you swallow chewing gum it takes 6 months to digest :erm:

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http://www.justtoiletpaper.com/

not really a fact....but it is random!

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Haha! :) thats what I used to thinl/heard but when watching sky's brainiac science abuse, they made some guy take a duck to a cathedral to prove it does echo.... :)
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Dolphins sleep with one eye open!!!

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The 'click' you sometimes get from joints is caused by a bubble of nitrogen imploding...............

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I think you may have been smoking just a few too many of them :p: :D

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Japan nearly ran out of 200 yen coins when space invaders was released.

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mole rats use the earths magnetic field to help navigate over longer distances, while underground - apparently the only mammal with this ability.

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Didn't they empty the machines then? ;) :D

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97.8% of statistics are made up on the fly.... :D

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100% of flys deny their role in 'made up' statistics :D

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Have you tried writing on flies?:D "not zips"!!!