Can you tell me something Quite Interesting?

Question

Nothing from the programme, please... and does anyone know when it's back on the tellybox? Apparently they just finished filming it!

Answer 1

the colour of your poo is dependant on how healthy your blood is.
the darker the poo the more toxins your expelling,
the lighter the poo then your just getting rid of it with not much blood in it.
poo is the way your body gets rid of all your old dead blood cells.

Answer 2

The common house-fly takes off backwards.

John Logie Baird not only invented TV, but he also was the first to demonstrate colour TV and a home recorder for TV signals.

The first movie ever shot was of a bridge in Leeds.

A harrier (the plane, not the bird) can only hover for 80 seconds before its engine water injection tanks are empty, forcing it to fly "normally".

Buzz Aldrin fluffed the "Thats one small step for man.... and one giant leap for mankind" line. Before transmission it had to be hastly edited.

Rats produce the richest milk of all mamals.

The first textured choccy bar was the Flake.

Dogs can only see in black and white.... or at least their colour vision is very poorly developed.

Concorde (when it flew) grew 8 inch longer during Mach2 flight because of heat build up.

A factory in China called Great Wall Zippers produces 90% of all the world's zips.

The upright supports on the Humber Bridge are 1 and a half inch further apart at the top than the bottom, due to the curvature of the earth.

Its been reciently proven that the T Rex was the only dinosaur to have fully working binocuilar vision.

When the Canadian air force was using the Mosquito light bomber (which was made mostly out of plywood) pilots would jokingly pour little heaps of sawdust under the plane along with a sign saying "Caution: Woodworm".

Rhyno horn is made from hair.

I cant spell.

Answer 3

Lee Orchard, 27, snatched a woman's handbag in a Gloucester street on 19 November, but was in such a hurry to escape he ran into a wall and knocked himself out. He was taken to hospital and then arrested.

The 21-year-old victim was uninjured.

Answer 4

The Bulgarian weather service has blamed the recent heat wave on; "Unfavourable astrological and geological conditions". Scientists were previously unaware of the effect on climate of wannabe magians hammering rocks...

Answer 5

There's a type of worm that you can train to move toward a heat source, then put it in a blender, feed it to another of its species, and the second worm will know how to move toward the heat source. I find that kinda interesting in a slightly macabre way.

Answer 6

a giraffe has seven bones in it's neck. they can't cough but they can clean their own ears out with their tongue.
bat's always turn left when exiting a cave.
charlie chaplin once entered a charlie chaplin look-a-like contest, he came third.
in the US, 4 people a year are killed by pianos.
frogs can only swallow with their eyes closed.
flamingos can only drink with their heads upside down.

Answer 7

The next solar system that's closest to ours is called 'Andomeda' and would take over an hour to get there in a taxi.

Answer 8

Yes.
I've just realised, after 36 years on this planet, that I can pick up a beer bottle with my toes.
Never tried before.
Now there's a thing.

Answer 9

a brochenspectre is a circular rainbow, and you see your own shadow inside it. You can only see it in certain conditions, and I saw one of the top of the mountain Hellvelyn in the Lake District in 1993!

Answer 10

A turttle lived to be 176 years old.