Random Facts...

[xXx]

Post any random facts you can think of! I'll start us off...

The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.

 

[Captain_BluTac]

cockroaches can survive a nuclear holocaust but cant stand cucumber

 

[Steve Rogers]

A banana is an herb.

 

[Captain_BluTac]

coloured cockatiels areone of the most difficult animals in the world totell its gender and usually has to be checked by x-ray

 

[Dew k. Mosi]

This thread has been done 82 billion times before... believe it.... or not

 

[Captain_BluTac]

actually a banana trees is a herb a banana is an ovary

 

[xXx]

This thread has been done 82 billion times before... believe it.... or not

My apologies...t:

 

[Captain_BluTac]

and banana trees move

 

[Captain_BluTac]

family guy is the only show to be revived based on the success of its dvd sales

 

[Captain_BluTac]

elephants are afraid of bees

 

[Steve Rogers]

actually a banana trees is a herb a banana is an ovary

Well excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me! Nah, it was something I was told once.

 

[Captain_BluTac]

in the buffy episode once more with feeling all the main/regular cast provided there own vocals despite professional singers being on hand if needed

 

[Captain_BluTac]

Well excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me! Nah, it was something I was told once.

TBH the only reason i know is because i was watching a repeat of QI last night and they were talking about it

 

[Steve Rogers]

TBH the only reason i know is because i was watching a repeat of QI last night and they were talking about it

Is it true a tomato is a fruit and that Thomas Jefferson ate one to prove to people they weren't poisonous?

 

[Captain_BluTac]

they put peanut butter under mister Ed's lip to make it looklike he talked

 

[Captain_BluTac]

the fruit thing yes but as far as i am aware people have been eating tomatoes since before thomas jefferson

 

[Steve Rogers]

they put peanut butter under mister Ed's lip to make it looklike he talked

Yeah I heard that somewhere.

 

[Captain_BluTac]

Simon Amstell was the first jew to be open about his homosexuality on british tv

 

[A.X.L]

family guy is the only show to be revived based on the success of its dvd sales

and Futurama

Revived in DVD Movie form

 

[Captain_BluTac]

ok its the first

 

[SuperFerret]

Is it true a tomato is a fruit and that Thomas Jefferson ate one to prove to people they weren't poisonous?

It wasn't Jefferson, it was someone else, and supposedly they ate a whole barrel while a town watched what they thought was a public suicide.

 

[Steve Rogers]

It wasn't Jefferson, it was someone else, and supposedly they ate a whole barrel while a town watched what they thought was a public suicide.

A whole barrel would be suicide One tomato would be enough, but a whole barrel? He must have been trying to impress some chick.

 

[Captain_BluTac]

actually makes sense alot of the tomato family is poisonous belladonna for example

 

[Captain_BluTac]

if you ate nothing but rabbit that would become poisonous and kill you

 

[Steve Rogers]

if you ate nothing but rabbit that would become poisonous and kill you

That's true of a lot of foods.