Astonishing Facts....

[The Dangerous Elk]

227bhp said:

The Dangerous Elk said:

wiggy001 said:

My dad mentioned a while ago that eggs were mostly white when he was a kid, but brown eggs were thought to be healthier (like brown bread I assume) so became more prevalent.

My chickens eggs are blue....

Do your chickens quacks echo?

No, but you can hear it bark a mile off

[m1dg3]

Zoobeef said:

Jonboy_t said:

(I think this is right...)

Humans are the only beings that will follow your finger if you point at something. All other animals will just look at the end of your finger

My old dog used too. New ones are stupid.

Horizon did a brilliant programme about the domestication of dogs. It seems that somewhere along the line they developed a unique ability to understand human emotions from people's faces and body language. As to the pointing thing, the programme said that dogs are one of the very few animals that understand pointing and showed some old footage of chimpanzees looking at the end of a researcher's finger and getting quite confused by the concept.

[anonymous-user]

gord115 said:

Helen worth who plays Gail Tilsley in Corry is only 8 years younger than Sue Nichols who plays her mum (Audrey)

Similarly, Sean Connery is only twelve years older than Harrison Ford whose father he played in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

[Gameface]

My black Labrador goes where I point him.

[Halmyre]

Crossflow Kid said:

gord115 said:

Helen worth who plays Gail Tilsley in Corry is only 8 years younger than Sue Nichols who plays her mum (Audrey)

Similarly, Sean Connery is only twelve years older than Harrison Ford whose father he played in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

When they filmed 'The Longest Day', the part of 27 year old Colonel Vandervoort was played by 55 year old John Wayne. This means that, in 1962 when the film was made, 18 years after the event, Vandervoort was still 10 years younger than the actor playing him.

[RizzoTheRat]

Halmyre said:

When they filmed 'The Longest Day', the part of 27 year old Colonel Vandervoort was played by 55 year old John Wayne. This means that, in 1962 when the film was made, 18 years after the event, Vandervoort was still 10 years younger than the actor playing him.

Which reminds me...

In the film The Longest Day, Richard Todd plays Major Howard, who led the attack on Pegasus Bridge. Before his Hollywood career Todd was a Para and was part of the force that parachuted in to reinforce Howards position. I believe Howard went on to be become Todd's battalion commander. In the film apparently he wore his own beret that he'd worn on D-Day.

Edited by RizzoTheRat on Friday 19th January 09:40

[glazbagun]

Jonboy_t said:

(I think this is right...)

Humans are the only beings that will follow your finger if you point at something. All other animals will just look at the end of your finger

Not true. Dogs can (though need training). I'm not sure if any other animals actually point, though, and it's inconclusive if other species get it.

It seems quite a mental hurdle to look at the body language of another species and infer a three dimensional concept from it.

[Eric Mc]

RizzoTheRat said:

Which reminds me...

In the film The Longest Day, Richard Todd plays Major Howard, who led the attack on Pegasus Bridge. Before his Hollywood career Todd was a Para and was part of the force that parachuted in to reinforce Todd's position. I believe Howard went on to be become Todd's battalion commander. In the film apparently he wore his own beret that he'd worn on D-Day.

Richard Todd was born in Dublin.

[kowalski655]

Crossflow Kid said:

gord115 said:

Helen worth who plays Gail Tilsley in Corry is only 8 years younger than Sue Nichols who plays her mum (Audrey)

Similarly, Sean Connery is only twelve years older than Harrison Ford whose father he played in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

Bloody chavs, having kids so young!

[TwigtheWonderkid]

The world's biggest tyre manufacturer (in terms of actual numbers of tyres made) is Lego.

[Gameface]

World's biggest coffee retailer isn't Costa or Starbucks etc.

It's McDonalds.

[StevieBee]

In the film Aliens, when the crew enter the chamber of the fossilised alien, the crew in the space suits were Ridley Scott's then 8 year old son and his mates - because they were half the size of adults it doubled the scale of the already large set.

[john2443]

Blatter said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Ayahuasca said:

In Iceland there are more horses than people.

Australia has more camels than any other country.

Australia is also the only country in the world with feral herds of camels

Australia export camels to the Arabs.

[john2443]

Reindeer don't eat carrots, which is a surprise for everyone who leaves them for Santa's reindeer on Christmas Eve and they've gone in the morning!

My daughter tried feeding one, it had a look and a sniff and wandered off to have something else.

[mickk]

john2443 said:

Reindeer don't eat carrots, which is a surprise for everyone who leaves them for Santa's reindeer on Christmas Eve and they've gone in the morning!

So who's eating them then?

[Harry Flashman]

Halmyre said:

When they filmed 'The Longest Day', the part of 27 year old Colonel Vandervoort was played by 55 year old John Wayne. This means that, in 1962 when the film was made, 18 years after the event, Vandervoort was still 10 years younger than the actor playing him.

A paratrooper colonel at 27? Proper bloke - that is amazing.

[glazbagun]

oddball1313 said:

Polar bear liver has Vitamin A in it so concentrated it is strong enough to kill you if you ate enough of it, even a small amount would have you in hospital

Likewise, eating nothing but rabbit will lead to protein poisoning as it's too lean.

[Halmyre]

mickk said:

john2443 said:

Reindeer don't eat carrots, which is a surprise for everyone who leaves them for Santa's reindeer on Christmas Eve and they've gone in the morning!

So who's eating them then?

Santa's eating them AND the mince pies, the greedy bd. No wonder he's round and jolly.

[Dr Jekyll]

Harry Flashman said:

Halmyre said:

When they filmed 'The Longest Day', the part of 27 year old Colonel Vandervoort was played by 55 year old John Wayne. This means that, in 1962 when the film was made, 18 years after the event, Vandervoort was still 10 years younger than the actor playing him.

A paratrooper colonel at 27? Proper bloke - that is amazing.

I think he was a Lt Col, having been promoted about a week before.

[TIGA84]

There is a book written by Morgan Robertson in 1898 called The Wreck of the Titan (it was originally called Futility) that had an ocean-going passenger liner called The Titan strike an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sink, on its maiden voyage.

Fourteen years later, The Titanic did the very same thing, for real.

The similarities are quite incredible as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wreck_of_the_Tit...