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Post-A-Random-Fact Thread

The world Koala means Bear and the word Avon means River:

Koala Bear = Bear Bear
River Avon = River River
Koala's are not called a bear over here.
Koala is an aboriginal word for "No drink", since they get their moisture from eucalyptus leaves! :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koala

Oh, and the word Kangaroo means "I don't understand". White fella points at bouncing Roo and asks black fella "What do you call that animal".

Black fella stares back blankly and replies "Kangaroo".

Nobody cares about you in particular! :p
I'll wear that, but my daughter? :mad:

Just kidding. :D
 
[FONT=trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica]A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

A snail can sleep for three years.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand; "lollipop" with your right.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts.

The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."

There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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All the Gummie bears sold in the world in one year would stretch around the world 3 1/2 times around the world.
The Romans used aniseed paste as a treatment for epilepsy.
Westies were bred to be white due to the number of accidents where their owners shot them during hunts.
The language of the ancient Aztecs is Nauhtal. They believed the sun and moon were born when two gods sacrificed themselves in a fire at the creation of the world.
The ancient Greeks had their own version of the guitar and bass, called the kithara and barbiton. The barbiton was tuned an octave lower than the kithara.
Fear of vegtables is lachanophobia.
The current record for a simultaneous jamming session invloved over 1600 guitarists playing Smoke On The Water.
The average drum skin is beaten 25000 times before breaking.
The Emperor Nero had an affair with his own mother.
In the Bible, the book of Daniel contains a mathmatical formula which when followed gives the PRECISE number of years between the exile of the Jews by the Romans and the foundation of Israel in 1948.
The biggest selling UK 12" disc of all time, Blue Monday, lost 20p for the record company when it was released in 1983.
Japanese has 22 words for suicide.
The band Depeche Mode have never got past number 4 in the UK singles charts.
Only three people have survived going over the Niagra Falls in a barrel. The last one was in 1981.
When Pompei was excavated, archaelogists found wine in one of the bottles in a villa.
The Vatican city has a 0 birthrate, and is the only country to do so.
The worlds smallest alphabet is 16 letters long,and the biggest has 125 letter sounds.
The Pantheon of Rome was the worlds largest unsuppported concrete structure until 1979.
You can eat nettles.
A neutron star is so dense, a teaspoonful is the weight of a battleship.
A worm has no spine.
An ostrich egg can support 15 stones of weight.
The track bike used by Chris Baordman for his Hour record cost almost £500,000 to develop and make.
Geisha in Japan never take money unless it is placed in an envelope or purse before being given to them.
The average child in a Western country costs roughly $350,000 to raise from birth to eighteen.
The worlds youngest recorded mother was five when she gave birth.
The nectar of the datura or brugmansia is a potent hallucinogen. The plant itself is highly toxic.
You can die/commit suicide by drinking too much water.
The average student has £4,500 of possessions.
The record for the most extras needed in one film is 36000, for the film Ghandi.
The film Metropolis inspired the band Kraftwerk, and also Adolf Hitler.
If all the bugs in the world were shared out, there would be 12000 for each person.
It was believed in Georgian England that gold earrings would give you better sight.
The word oligarchy means rule of the few. Oligos is Greek for few, and arche the word for rule.
The first sport to be filmed on a camera was a cricket match.
The Tour de france cycle race was a massive publicity stunt for a magazine.
Breton and Welsh come from the same language root.
Flour can explode.
LSD was discovered in 1938 by accident. It was originally used in psychiatric treatment.
Eureka is the Greek word for 'I have found it'.
The bassst Mark King was originally a drummer.