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

Hello,

theotherside26 said:
Yet another fun one:

What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.
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I am french and I've never heard anything about "English kiss" (we don't name it, we just do it!).

We say french kiss too!
Or sometimes "baiser avec la langue" (kiss with the tongue).

Best regards K.
 
I would call it a pash, or if I was at the pub with my mates... I would call it a 'Tonguey'

Australia, the home of beer and Tongueys =D
 
Directed energy weapons (that is, lasers) have been successfully tested, and used to shoot down missiles from a plane. Link. The age of the ray-gun is nigh.
 
Male seahorses carry and birth their own offspring. The male germinates the female then she transfers the "babies" to the male to birth. Imagine how socially different things would be if that were the case in humans...
 
Is 'germinates' the right word? :D

In plants, yeah. But maybe "Fertilizes the egg" or "Impregnates" would be better? Just saying!
 
Cicadas in the USA spend most of their lives as nymphs underground, surfacing in 13 or 17 year cycles. These numbers are prime, an adaptation that is believed to prevent predators from being able to rely on the cicadas for food.

They're damned interesting creatures anyway, but that fact is IMO just incredible.
 
Klue said:
Is 'germinates' the right word? :D

In plants, yeah. But maybe "Fertilizes the egg" or "Impregnates" would be better? Just saying!
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Oh no it's germinate. The female shoves white widow seeds in him and waits 12 weeks and they a happy fam! lol =D
 
The European earwig has two penises. This was discovered when scientists accidentally ripped off the penis of a male when trying to separate him from his mate, only to find that the male was still capable of reproduction. it is theorised that this mechanism has evolved in order to obstruct the female's reproductive organs in order to prevent further mating and maximise the chances of passing on the male's genes.

I told you I had a lot of animal penis facts.
 
More fun facts yeaaah!!

Every square inch of the human body has about 19,000,000 skin cells.

If you ever feel like a small fish in a big pond.....imagine was what single skin cell feels like :)
 
After a spinal cord injury your body loses the ability to sweat below the level of injury and thus control body temperature, if the injury is high C7 (cervical) or above then in most cases you lose the ability to sweat completely!
 
/\_/\__FlatLine__ said:
After a spinal cord injury your body loses the ability to sweat below the level of injury and thus control body temperature, if the injury is high C7 (cervical) or above then in most cases you lose the ability to sweat completely!
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That's pretty interesting :)

I wonder how wheelchair athletes overcome problems this may cause...
 
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