Surprising if unimportant facts you've discovered recently.

[Dr Jekyll]

These surprised me.

The Chinook helicopter was first in combat over 50 years ago.

James Earl Ray, assassin of Martin Luther King, was finally arrested at Heathrow Airport.

Soviet spy Rudolf Abel was British born and originally called William Fisher. He lived in England until he was 18.

[JustinF]

Amaretto Disaronno contains no almonds or indeed nuts at all.

[Doofus]

The brother of Japan's tallest man invented the digital photo frame

[glazbagun]

The American government tried to introduce a bill to bring Hippos from Africa to live in American swamps as free range meat to ease their meat shortage and to fight back against invasive pond weeds.

[The Nur]

The largest population of Hippos outside of Africa are the descendents of Pablo Escobar's pets that he had imported at the height of his infamy.

[popeyewhite]

Hares, unlike rabbits, don't live in burrows so spend the whole winter shivering in nests under hedges. Their young are born with the ability to see and they have fur, unlike baby rabbits.

[Mr Snrub]

A Panther isn't a species in itself, but any large cat with black fur

[Noodle1982]

Mo Farah, Jason Kenny, Chris Hoy and Steve Redgrave were all born on March 23rd.

[glazbagun]

Mr Snrub said:

A Panther isn't a species in itself, but any large cat with black fur

Likewise white tigers- the ones we see in zoos today are actually all inbred morons with fked immune systems. There hasn't been a wild one in years.

[Doofus]

popeyewhite said:

Hares, unlike rabbits, don't live in burrows so spend the whole winter shivering in nests under hedges. Their young are born with the ability to see and they have fur, unlike baby rabbits.

Every litter of leverets weighs exaclty the same as every other litter, regardless of how many young there are in it.

[markcoznottz]

A pitbull terrier isn't a breed. Luke's speeder in Star Wars used a reliant robin chassis and wheels to move around.

[Iva Barchetta]

Noodle1982 said:

Mo Farah, Jason Kenny, Chris Hoy and Steve Redgrave were all born on March 23rd.

Lucky I read before posting same.

Learned that on here too.

March is a good month .

[FreeLitres]

Mo Farah could smash all of his current personal best running times if he didn't wear his heavy gold chain.

[cranford10]

At the height of his operation, Pablo Escobar was spending $2500 per month on elastic bands to keep his cash tidy

[popeyewhite]

Doofus said:

Every litter of leverets weighs exaclty the same as every other litter, regardless of how many young there are in it.

Do you mean roughly exactly, or exactly exactly? I'll bet they don't.

[Doofus]

popeyewhite said:

Do you mean roughly exactly, or exactly exactly? I'll bet they don't.

Exactly exactly. I'll take the bet. I worked on a team with WWF (back when it was called WWF) looking at reconolising the high Andes region with hares.

[popeyewhite]

Doofus said:

popeyewhite said:

Do you mean roughly exactly, or exactly exactly? I'll bet they don't.

Exactly exactly. I'll take the bet. I worked on a team with WWF (back when it was called WWF) looking at reconolising the high Andes region with hares.

Noo! You can't have exact exacts like that in nature surely. Now how will we settle this...?

The WWF was going to re-leather the High Andes region with hares?

[Thankyou4calling]

Less than 20 posts and already it has turned into pub talk.

Stories of people spending $2500 a month on elastic bands and litters of animals all weighing the same, I wonder where this deftness will end?

[ThunderSpook]

popeyewhite said:

Doofus said:

popeyewhite said:

Do you mean roughly exactly, or exactly exactly? I'll bet they don't.

Exactly exactly. I'll take the bet. I worked on a team with WWF (back when it was called WWF) looking at reconolising the high Andes region with hares.

Noo! You can't have exact exacts like that in nature surely. Now how will we settle this...?

The WWF was going to re-leather the High Andes region with hares?

Why would wrestlers care so much about big rabbits?

[popegregory]

The Nur said:

The largest population of Hippos outside of Africa are the descendents of Pablo Escobar's pets that he had imported at the height of his infamy.

The hippo is the dolphins closest relative on land