Author Topic: Did you know? - useless facts  (Read 10216 times)

Bex

  • Joined Aug 2014
  • Wales
Re: Did you know? - useless facts
« Reply #15 on: June 20, 2015, 02:29:44 pm »
Did you know that if you shave a Tiger, it's still stripey?

 :cat:

Little bugs have lesser bugs upon their backs to bite 'em. And lesser bugs have lesser bugs and so ad infinitum!

devonlady

  • Joined Aug 2014
Re: Did you know? - useless facts
« Reply #16 on: June 20, 2015, 03:09:41 pm »
Did you know that if you shave a Tiger, it's still stripey?

 :cat:

 :roflanim: :roflanim:

doganjo

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Clackmannanshire
  • Qui? Moi?
Re: Did you know? - useless facts
« Reply #17 on: June 20, 2015, 04:10:43 pm »
Did you know that if you shave a Tiger, it's still stripey?

 :cat:
Why would you want to?  :thinking:
Always have been, always will be, a WYSIWYG - black is black, white is white - no grey in my life! But I'm mellowing in my old age

Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
  • South Lanarkshire
    • ScotHebs
Re: Did you know? - useless facts
« Reply #18 on: June 20, 2015, 04:21:34 pm »
Did you know that if you shave a Tiger, it's still stripey?

 :cat:
Why would you want to?  :thinking:


To check how tame it is?  :innocent:
"Let's not talk about what we can do, but do what we can"

There is NO planet B - what are YOU doing to save our home?

Do something today that your future self will thank you for - plant a tree

 Love your soil - it's the lifeblood of your land.

pgkevet

  • Joined Jul 2011
Re: Did you know? - useless facts
« Reply #19 on: June 20, 2015, 04:56:14 pm »

Aha!! It doesn't, I tried when I was in Australia, it goes down the same way!!

I recall a research project showing that it's nothing to do with the side of the equator you're on ..it's te design of the plughole and plumbing.

Did you knw there's a species of Asian nettle in Timor that if stung by gves the signs of lockjaw for up to 10 days?

Did you know that crushed laurel leaves can be used in a butterfly kill jar to leave the dead butterfly flexible for pinning out?


Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
  • South Lanarkshire
    • ScotHebs
Re: Did you know? - useless facts
« Reply #20 on: June 20, 2015, 06:05:04 pm »

Why would you want to kill a butterfly  :bfly: unless it's a cabbage white?  :garden:
"Let's not talk about what we can do, but do what we can"

There is NO planet B - what are YOU doing to save our home?

Do something today that your future self will thank you for - plant a tree

 Love your soil - it's the lifeblood of your land.

bloomer

  • Joined Aug 2010
  • leslie, fife
  • i have chickens, sheep and opinions!!!
Re: Did you know? - useless facts
« Reply #21 on: June 20, 2015, 06:08:45 pm »
Polar bears are also predominantly left handed..


Their fur is actually clear not white it just looks that way because there's so much of it...

pgkevet

  • Joined Jul 2011
Re: Did you know? - useless facts
« Reply #22 on: June 20, 2015, 09:22:01 pm »

Why would you want to kill a butterfly  :bfly: unless it's a cabbage white?  :garden:

I wouldn't.. but there are collectors.

DavidandCollette

  • Joined Dec 2012
Re: Did you know? - useless facts
« Reply #23 on: June 20, 2015, 09:38:20 pm »
What's the difference between a bison and a buffalo?  You can't wash your hands in a buffalo :roflanim:

Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
  • South Lanarkshire
    • ScotHebs
Re: Did you know? - useless facts
« Reply #24 on: June 20, 2015, 11:29:27 pm »
Did you know that maggots are still used on humans to clean up dirty, sloughy wounds which don't respond to other treatments?  They also work on footrot in sheep  ;)
« Last Edit: June 20, 2015, 11:31:00 pm by Fleecewife »
"Let's not talk about what we can do, but do what we can"

There is NO planet B - what are YOU doing to save our home?

Do something today that your future self will thank you for - plant a tree

 Love your soil - it's the lifeblood of your land.

 

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