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

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Come one come all to the Fact of the Day Thread. Know anything interesting? Are you a walking encyclopedia and need a place to spread your knowledge? Then this is the thread for you!!
 
Fact of the day-6/29/10
In the Middle Ages, the belief that birds chose their mates on St. Valentine's Day led to the idea that boys and girls would do the same. Up through the early 1900's, the Ozark hill people in the U.S. thought that birds and rabbits started mating on February 14, a day for them which was not only Valentine's Day but Groundhog Day as well.
 
I'm not a walking encyl

But did you know that the Present World Cup of Soccer was originally the Rimmel Cup ? The present cup (of a different design) was stolen in Brazil in the 80s.

This only has current relevance.
 
According to some statistics, hippopotamuses cause hundreds of deaths a year in Africa.

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Fact of the day for Saturday, July 3rd



"Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country, so it has not one drug law!"

Maybe all the drug users should get badass pads in the freeze of antarctica so we can be free....oh wait, does the mail come there?? :)
 
I have a fact for today:

Australia has some of the world's longest fences. The longest is 5500 km, longer than the width of the USA.
 
Fact of the day for Monday July 5th 2010

The striped mittenfish, a reccently discovered deepwater species that lives in the Java sea, can change its sex at will by turning its entire body inside out!!!

If only I could do that......
 
^ Most deep sea creatures are pretty bizzare. How crazy are giant squid!

Check out this little fella!

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You could think it was a drawing from someones imagination :)
 
Here is an Aussie fact for you Klue!!!

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.

Men at work...one of the great Aussie bands :) Them along with silverchair are the only two I can name....anyone else? :)
 
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