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The Fact of the Day Thread!! Post a fact that you find useful here :)

Australian rock band Men At Work will have to pay royalties for plagiarising a folk song when they wrote their number one hit Down Under.
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Who gets the royalties for a folk song?
 
if you turn a ladder upside down, you can use it to get down from things


manatees don't have eyelids, instead they have sphincter type muscles round their eyes.
 
Fun fact for today:

The Last Airbender is one of the worst films ever made.....biggest fail ever!!!

How could the same guy who directed The sixth sense, the village, and signs direct this? I guess I should have figured it would suck since his last movie was garbage as well.
 
^ That's a bit subjective more than 'fact'.

Come on, you must have some good sources of information! ;)
 
How could the same guy who directed The sixth sense, the village, and signs direct this? I guess I should have figured it would suck since his last movie was garbage as well.
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Well, as "Signs" and "The Village" also both suck, it's not a huge surprise...
 
To pay tribute to our great Aussie mod Klue here are is an Aussie fact that I have floating around in my brain :)

There are 1500 species of Australian spiders.
On average Aussie's swallow three spiders a year.
 
On average Aussie's swallow three spiders a year.
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The whole "people swallow x spiders a year" thing was a hoax devised to demonstrate that people will believe any absurd statistic they read on the internet. Link.

OK, I'm going to build up instead of tearing down for a change: A female turkey can reproduce asexually. Even more astounding, the offspring is usually male.
 
^ Heh, cool mate :D

Here is a couple more Aussie ones I found (and have heard before)...

In 1954, Bob Hawke was immortalised by the Guinness Book of Records for sculling 2.5 pints of beer in 11 seconds. Bob later became the Prime Minister of Australia.

Police force - Australia's first police force was a band of 12 of the most well behaved Convicts.

This 10 percent of the population consume 80 percent of the beer drunk in Australia.
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That's so cool about the Spider sociological experiment, I would have believed that I suppose :D
 
I whacked that link in NSFW tags, I'm having trouble keeping my breakfast down after watching that :(
 
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