does anyone have any weird facts?

[shredder]

if you do post them! probably sounding really stupid now ....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!

"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.

[MetaWraith]

Originally Posted by shredder

if you do post them! probably sounding really stupid now ....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!

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

[Angua]

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

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

If you swallow chewing gum it takes 6 months to digest

[shredder]

http://www.justtoiletpaper.com/

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

[leef78]

Originally Posted by shredder

if you do post them! probably sounding really stupid now ....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!

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!!!

[Ramrod]

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

[danielf]

Originally Posted by Ramrod

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

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

[robtufts]

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

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

[Mal]

Originally Posted by robtufts

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

Didn't they empty the machines then?

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

Originally Posted by Tuftus

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

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

[Angua]

Originally Posted by homealone

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

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