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

[Fix8Sed8Hallucin8]

Elephants have their own form of intelligent language, but it is at the subsonic level, which caused this interesting tidbit to be unknown to zoologists until the past few years.
Oh, you said USEFUL.

 

[Vader]

^IMO the usefulness of a fact is often inversely proportional to it's capacity to fascinate.

Flatline, I'm afraid I have no interesting facts pertaining to the reproductive organs of ants.

My fact for today is:
Water is an excellent insulator of electricity. The high conductivity we observe is a result of dissolved compounds. If one were to purify water enough, it would be possible to drop a toaster into one's bathtub and suffer no ill effect.

 

[theotherside]

^^Maybe if Johnny Depp would have thrown that radio in the bathtub at the peak of white rabbit benicio could have still lived

 

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Gecko's can support up to eight times its weight hanging from just one toe on glass.%)

Each square milimeter of a gecko's foot pad contains aprox 14,000 hair like bristles, those bristles are then tipped with between 100-1000 spatula that are used to grip the actual surface without the use of sticky secretions or surface tension.

Teflon is the only known surface that gecko's can't stick to!

 

[Klue]

^ I read that Teflon was invented by accident.

 

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/\maybe whilst finding somthing geckos cant stick to lol

 

[Seeddrill]

Fire ants live 7 years.
WD-40 is the 40th attempt by the inventor to make a good water displaser.

 

[Seeddrill]

It has been scientifikly proven that spelling and penmanship are not indicitive of your intellegence.

 

[theotherside]

^^^Goode becauz sumtimez i spelll wroung

 

[Vader]

Everybody ready for another invertebrate penis fact?
Certain species of flatworm engage in penis fencing. The worms are hermaphroditic, and two individuals fight using their penises. The "loser" will be penetrated (literally, there's no orifice, the penis just tears the skin) and inseminated. This is because both individuals desire to mate, but motherhood requires many more resources than fatherhood.

While we're (I'm) on the subject, the common earthworm is also hermaphroditic. Mating occurs with both individuals in a 69 position (sort of), having sex at both ends at once.

 

[theotherside]

^^^I still like the whole forked/sporked penis thing

 

[Vader]

Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were both born on the 12th of February 1809.

 

[Tisdale445]

In early drafts of Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones initially had brass knuckles instead of a whip

 

[theotherside]

^^^I almost posted that fact about a week ago...bo bs!!! How strange

 

[NoOnesHome]

But the lights are on

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??

Somebody has to be paying the light bill.

 

[PureFire]

Racecar spelled backwards is racecar!

 

[Klue]

:D

 

[theotherside]

Ants began farming about 50 million years before humans thought to raise their own crops.

I don't know about you guys but I'm going to buy another ant farm

 

[Klue]

^ I'd love to have a bee hive at home, don't know if I can in my town or if I have enough sun here. Because.....


One out of every three bites we take of food is a result of bee crop pollination

 

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The female Queen bumble bee stores the sperm after mating, and chooses when laying eggs to fertilize, which would become a female or queen or not fertilize an egg which would be a male.