tell me something interesting i didn't already know?

Question

best answer goes to the most interesting

Answer 1

My oldest hamster is still a virgin.

Answer 2

The guy who shot John Lennon of the Beatles-- his idol was Holden Caulfield. At the scene of the murder, he was reading the book the Catcher in the Rye.

Most people don't know how they look like from the neck down.

Women have wider peripheral vision then men, but men have better "tunnel" vision, the ability to focus in on a far away object. This is why men get caught at "ogling" a woman more frequently than when a woman checks out a guy. That, and woman have a larger communication section in their brains, allowing them to be better at reading body language. I got this from a book.

Retrieved from a site: "The cheetah has no natural enemies. The cheetah's paws have only semi-retractable claws, the only of its type amongst the species of cat, and offer the cat extra grip in its high-speed pursuits."

A blue whale's tongue weighs 100lbs.

Scientists speculate that we've only discovered about 1% of every species thought to exist.

A crocodile's tongue is stuck to the roof of its mouth.

A roll of toilet paper the Beatles refused to use because it was stamped and shiny looking was cased and sold for $70,000.

Answer 3

Sea cucumbers can defend themselves by squirting their sticky entrails over their attackers. I guess they then get away and grow new entrails...

...glad I'm not a sea cucumber.

Still if you think that's a good defence, vegetable cucumbers have a better one...Their flavour. What is the point of them?

Also, mercury apparently will form an amalgam which eats away at aluminium and that's why you're not allowed to take mercury thermometers onto aeroplanes.

And raindrops are round not 'teardrop' shaped.

Okay, these are daft facts... I'll go now...

Answer 4

I just found this out on Animal Hospital.

A kitten can die if it is infested with fleas, as the kitten is so small, the fleas actually suck out most of it's blood leaving it so dehydrated and anaemic that it can die. I never knew fleas could be so dangerous!!! The poor thing died in the end, despite attempts to save it.

Answer 5

Sharks are immune to all known diseases !!
It's true !!

EDIT:
I recant, as I stand corrected. Just did a little more research, and apparently I have been badly misinformed. Although in my own defence...it is a very common misconception.
7:00 a.m, and I've already learned something !!

Answer 6

Actually Lucifer, sharks are NOT immune to all diseases and unbeknown to alot of people, sharks DO actually get tumours and cancers etc.

Did you know that all polar bears are left handed and that polar bear fur is clear and hollow, not white, as one would assume?

Also, a cockroach can live for 8 days without a head. Until it starves to death.

Answer 7

when bats leave a cave they always turn left.

Huskies dont loose body heat until -50 degrees

the most poisonous spider in the UK is the daddy long legs.. its just that they have nothing to bite with and the amount of poison is so tiny that it cant do us any harm!

Answer 8

Did you know that if you get a GI bleed...it isn't always cancer?

Did you know that cigarette smoking is the number one killer of women?

Did you know that my dog, Sadie, is blind in one eye but, she hears for me because I am hearing impaired?

Did you know that dwarf Russian Hamsters only live around 2 years?

Did you know that a horse can sense when you are afraid and will act up to discourage you from riding it?

Answer 9

Ottawa is not the largest city in Canada despite being the capital

Answer 10

I increased my carbon footprint yesterday by cutting down a tree and tonight I am going burn the branches so in all I am pi**ing off the planet!

Answer 11

More people have died falling off the Monument than the Great Fire Of London which it commemorates