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Apparently a flea can jump higher than an elephant!

Now call me old fashioned, but I didn’t know an elephant could jump at all!
 
Nod said:
Just think what damage a boat load of humans could do there...
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They already have done. Before man arrived, there were no placental mammals, marsupials had evolved to fill the ecological niches such as a marsupial lion and wolf in Australia. It is thought that competition from introduced placental mammals such as the Dingo have caused at least part of their extinction.

Tasmania had thylacines, or marsupial wolves into the 20th century, there were plans for large scale sheep farming which failed, the thylacine was blamed and humted to extinction. Ironically, there was trading with zoos worldwide, including thylacines, the last proven survivor of the species died of exposure in a zoo in Hobart.

There are some who are convinced the animal is not extinct, six months ago, a series of photographs were taken. the irony is that shortly before the death of Benjamin the name given to the zoo animal, the species became officially protected
 
Water expands by approximately 10% in volume when it freezes which is why ~90% of an iceberg is under water.

So, if the North Pole, being sea ice, were to melt, it wouldn't actually affect sea levels. But the South Pole on the other hand being ice in land would raise sea levels if it melted.

Unfortunately its all or nothing so best to avoid it if we can.
 
Jimmy White is the only winner of the UK snooker championship to have his nickname engraved on the trophy.
 
The oldest person to have a valid passport was allegedly born in 1303 B.C..

Ramases II needed some restorative work doing in the '70s and he was shipped to Paris for it to be done. French law requires any human, living or dead, to have a passport...
 
Apparently, kingfishers have very few predators as their meat tastes bad.
 
Dale. said:
Apparently, kingfishers have very few predators as their meat tastes bad.
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But they still taste better than buzzards

:D
 
boyfalldown said:
The last person to be executed by guillotine in France died after the film Jaws was released
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Yes, and the last public execution in France was in June 1939, which is just within living memory. They were carried out inside prisons after that, because of the unruly behaviour of the crowd. I think public executions were stopped in England (1868) for much the same reason. Goverment felt that the 'spectators' enjoyed them as entertainment, rather than them being a deterrent.
 
especially when fried in a secret coating of 11 herbs and spices.

Fact: The Kentucky Fried Chicken twitter account follows 11 people. Geri Horner, Melanie Chisholm, Mel Brown, Emma Bunton and Victoria Beckham and 6 guys called Herb.
Nod said:
Crane is delicious as was dodo.
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Something I found hard to believe, but the earliest know reference of the term 'mullet' (referring to the hairstyle) is from the 90's. Lots of people are convinced it was around earlier, but no evidence has yet been found.
 
Back in the '80s, one of the big bike clubs favoured what came to be known as a mullet - we called it an "NCC" haircut (National Chopper Club).
 
One of the kids in my school was called Mullet because of the stupid haircut his mother insisted on giving him (poor sod). That was in the early '70s so it was in use long before the 90s.

I imagine, it has to be in some sort of written publication before it gets 'recognised'.
 
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Rapscallion said:
Something I found hard to believe, but the earliest know reference of the term 'mullet' (referring to the hairstyle) is from the 90's. Lots of people are convinced it was around earlier, but no evidence has yet been found.
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Hmmmm that's curious I'll mullet over ..

( sorry :coat: )
 
Sky said:
One of the kids in my school was called Mullet because of the stupid haircut his mother insisted on giving him (poor sod). That was in the early '70s so it was in use long before the 90s.

I imagine, it has to be in some sort of written publication before it gets 'recognised'.
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I imagine any recording would suffice, be it written or filmed etc.

Apparently no evidence of any type before the nineties of the word mullet referring to a haircut.
 
Rapscallion said:
Apparently no evidence of any type before the nineties of the word mullet referring to a haircut.
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Well trust me it did, but it was referring to a different type of haircut then - the 'pudding basin'. The trouble is we didn't all have video recorders in our pockets back then, so it couldn't have happened. :rolleyes:

We were all gay as kids whilst playing, but no one under fifty will remember using that word because of today's changed meaning.
 
Sky said:
We were all gay as kids whilst playing, but no one under fifty will remember using that word because of today's changed meaning.
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Herman's Hermits no milk today.. 1967 ( seriously? )

No milk today, it wasn't always so
The company was gay, we'd turn night into day ♪♪♪
 
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Sky said:
Well trust me it did, but it was referring to a different type of haircut then - the 'pudding basin'. The trouble is we didn't all have video recorders in our pockets back then, so it couldn't have happened. :rolleyes:

We were all gay as kids whilst playing, but no one under fifty will remember using that word because of today's changed meaning.
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Cobra said:
Herman's Hermits no milk today.. 1967 ( seriously? )

No milk today, it wasn't always so
The company was gay, we'd turn night into day ♪♪♪
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The English language is littered with words that have fallen into different (common) usage or perhaps in some uses misappropriated.

This has included swear words, from the cultural lingo in regard to family member relationships to an explicit word of a biological function that was in common non-swear usage (AFAIK?) though perhaps a "low & uncouth term" now used very widely and in a way has lost even it's invective swear word 'weight' :thinking: :banghead:

PS I had a relative whose name was Gladys......her family diminutive name, used by her sister, was Gay.
 
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One penny doubled everyday becomes over 5 million dollars in just 30 days. :)
 
"No milk today" was performed by Herman's Hermits, but written by Graham Gouldman.
 
Pound Coin said:
"No milk today" was performed by Herman's Hermits, but written by Graham Gouldman.
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Lots of bands perform songs they didn't write.
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Pound Coin said:
Just because you didn't know that, No need to be upset.

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I'm not upset, I just didn't care who wrote it.
It's hardly an interesting fact that bands play songs by "writers" ...
 
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It's hardly an interesting fact ...

Hmmm..not sure about that.

Graham Gouldman also wrote
Bus Stop - The Hollies
For Your Love - The Yardbirds
Stronger - Gary Barlow

And many others.

He was also, along with other members of 10cc, instrumental in reviving the career of Neil Sedaka.

Ooh, edit. :)
 
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simon ess said:
Hmmm..not sure about that.
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And I could real off 100's of songs NOT written by the band that played them, hardly interesting at all...

Its more about "pop memorabilia"
 
simon ess said:
The Rolling Stones first hit was written by Lennon and McCartney.

Not interesting at all.
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Yes, you are right not interesting at all, as I already knew that I wanna be your man was sung by the stones and later the beatles
 
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