interesting facts

[Dorothy Wood]

Unlike mammals, birds don't urinate. Their kidneys extract nitrogenous wastes from the bloodstream, but instead of excreting it as urea dissolved in urine as we do, they excrete it in the form of uric acid. Uric acid has a very low solubility in water, so it emerges as a white paste. This material, as well as the output of the intestines, emerges from the bird's cloaca. The cloaca is a multi-purpose hole for birds: their wastes come out of it, they have sex by putting their cloacas together, and females lay eggs out of it.

from smellypoop.com. NO, I"m not googling poop, I'm trying to figure out I'm puking. or why I was puking and why my stomach feels like it's clenching itself. agh.

anyway, I had no idea that birds didn't pee.

I'm just going to go ahead and type in italics all the time now.

[TurdBerglar]

yeah, i already knew that

not so interesting

[checkyourprez]

you never did hear a person say... "damn that bird just pissed on my car"

[yeahwho]

fuck me, rain really does come from clouds

[mikizee]

heres an interesting fact

I RULE

the end

[Guy Incognito]

I am going on holiday on thursday. FACT

[Freebasser]

The new Beastie Boys album will be rubbish. FACT (y)

[Bob]

freebasser is only popular in the UK: FACT

[Adam]

The earth has at least two moons

^it may be 5 even, I forget the number - but technically there is at least 2 moons and maybe even more that are undiscovered.

[camo]

20% of UK residents have cupped Freebasers balls. FACT

[Audio.]

McDonald's Hamburger beef are blue before cooked.

[Guy Incognito]

Facts are interesting. FACT

[Guy Incognito]

this is my four thousandth post. FACT

[Guy Incognito]

bob holness was the first james bond. fact or possibly an urban myth

[Audio.]

There are two Ronald McDonalds.

[Guy Incognito]

you cant get better than a kwik fit fitter

[jackrock]

90% of the Earth's population lives on the Northern hemisphere.

[MC Moot]

Bald Eagles aren't actually bald at all...however the white plumage that earns them the name does not develop until there 7th year...

[Guy Incognito]

to call someone a berk is to call someone a cunt.

[Lex Diamonds]

bob holness was the first james bond. fact or possibly an urban myth
He was actually the 2nd: FACT

I saw it on QI the other night: FACT

[Guy Incognito]

He was actually the 2nd: FACT

I saw it on QI the other night: FACT

fair do's if it was on QI - i love that program, its like school but funny except when they have that twat john sessions on who is just a know it all cunt

[MC Moot]

Back in the day’s of high seas adventure, exploration and treacherous pirates, it was a positive thing to see a ship approaching your vessel with the skull and cross bones flying…otherwise known as the “Jolly Roger”…and with good reason…Roger was a nick name for the British sailors…and when they saw the pirates coming on with that flag it meant they mostly only wanted your bounty to become their booty…they’d empty your ships hold but may leave the crew alive…if the pirates came on flying a solid red flag it meant all crew would be murdered, no quarter given to any…one day someone will make a real movie about pirates and that will be interesting…

[gbsuey]

this is from the guiness book of records 2005 so i guess that means it must be a FACT but i'm really struggling to believe it.....

a chicken-called Mike!!, had it's head cut off but lived on for 18 months. it's owner fed and watered it with an eyedropper direct down it's gullet. it died by choking on a corn kernel in an Arizona motel.

now, how the fuck could that happen-does a chicken not need it's brain for some small part of bodily function??-surely they're taking the piss. so help me out, is this FACT or NOT FACT?????

[HAL 9000]

^
Its true, Mike the Headless Chicken. Retained enough brain stem to keep going.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken

[gbsuey]

aaah i see-spooky chicken though, can't say i'd want one like that croaking and snotting around my farmyard. i haven't got a farmyard but if i did i wouldn't want a creepy headless chicken in it. i likt that it was called mike tho-i like animals to have names like that. like a dog called mark

[HAL 9000]

The earth has at least two moons

^it may be 5 even, I forget the number - but technically there is at least 2 moons and maybe even more that are undiscovered.


I don’t think this one is true. The Earth is in a similar orbit to an asteroid called Cruithne which has led to it being mistaken for a second moon (but it actually orbits the Sun). I am pretty sure that there are no second moon candidates. If there are, their status is not generally accepted.

That being said, definitions of celestial bodies are generally very vague (hence all the fuss about Pluto), and a moon is poorly defined. Technically, any natural object orbiting a planet such that the barycentre of the system (centre of mass) is inside the planet could be called a moon (although this means our moon would cease to be a moon in a few billion years). This could include dust particles and small rocks although convention is to say that an object must be bigger than 1 KM across to qualify.

Interestingly (or not) the above definition means that the Pluto / Charon system was technically a double planet rather than a plant and moon. But that’s irrelevant now because Pluto is not a planet any more.

[HAL 9000]

aaah i see-spooky chicken though, can't say i'd want one like that croaking and snotting around my farmyard. i haven't got a farmyard but if i did i wouldn't want a creepy headless chicken in it. i likt that it was called mike tho-i like animals to have names like that. like a dog called mark

The worst thing is that loads of people tried to recreate the effect by partially decapitating chickens. I think this is why there is a world record for it. The best people usually manage is a couple of days!

[Echewta]

I was watching Trekkies 2 while getting ready for work this morning and they were asking people what do they see happening in the next 100 years and one Russian blonde said she thinks we will discover another universe and I said out loud to the TV "I'll show you another universe, in my pants."

:(

[Adam]

The moon thing I also saw on QI but years ago so can't remember the details. But yeah, HAL is right in the sense it is poorly defined and thus depends who you ask you get a different answer.

[HAL 9000]

The moon thing I also saw on QI but years ago so can't remember the details. But yeah, HAL is right in the sense it is poorly defined and thus depends who you ask you get a different answer.


I was intrigued so I found the clip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1zuAQAhhMI

QI was talking about Cruithne and did call it a second moon, but I dont think it can be called a moon under any definition, I think QI is just wrong on this one. It does not orbit the Earth, it orbits the Sun.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3753_Cruithne

[Guy Incognito]

, I think QI is just wrong on this one. .



QI is quite interesting. FACT.
Stephen Fry is a legend. FACT
Hugh Laurie is pretty cool as well, his SNL was really good. They should do some stuff together again, that would be quite interesting.

[Adam]

^Ok, there you go

I remember that clip and I remember another one in the next series that said they had found more since asking that question - I searched for it but can't find. I'm 99% sure I didn't dream it but looking at the youtube/google I may of done.

[Echewta]

Michael Buffer is the "lets get ready to rumble" voice of boxing and other major sporting events. Basically, he warms up the crowd before the main event. His last name is where the term "buffering" came from. While you are waiting for your video or "main event" to load up, its buffering.

[ericlee]

If you take all of NY's streets and put them together, they could reach all the way to Japan.

Today's snapple fact.

[faz]

90% of people believe everything they hear

[Guy Incognito]

Michael Buffer is the "lets get ready to rumble" voice of boxing and other major sporting events. Basically, he warms up the crowd before the main event. His last name is where the term "buffering" came from. While you are waiting for your video or "main event" to load up, its buffering.

hahahaha(y)

don king is actually a king