Useless facts

[Diver]

Do you believe everything on the internet?

http://www.snopes.com/language/phrases/1500.asp

Only what I read on cuk

[EternalOptimist]

Rabbits can not sweat

[BlackenedBiker]

dum dee dum . bored here.

Time for a useless fact -

Spiders.
Did you know that spiders produce two types of silk, sticky and non sticky.
The spokes of the web are non sticky, the cross bars are sticky. A spider will only walk on the spokes, if it touches the sticky bits, it gets caught, just like everything else.
BUT spiders have the ability to eat their way out, and recyle the sticky silk

Spiders are pneumatic: true fact

[EternalOptimist]

Dogs do NOT have better eyesight than humans, plus they dont see as much colour as we do. Useless creatures

[BlackenedBiker]

Thats made up internet nonsense

Wrong it is correct: And remember you read that you were wrong, which is correct on the Interweb

[BlackenedBiker]

Brown bears cannot hold a conversation with a human for more 2 minutes before giving in to temptation and ripping the humans face off.

[EternalOptimist]

You can grow a flower underground, in a cave for example, using a UV lamp.

The plant will thrive, but the flower will have no colour

[Pondlife]

You can grow a flower underground, in a cave for example, using a UV lamp.

The plant will thrive, but the flower will have no colour

You can still smoke it though, apparently.

[OwlHoot]

A box jellyfish isn't a jellyfish, any more than a sea horse is a type of horse.

The two pairs each last shared a common ancestor more than 400 million years ago.

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The daddy longlegs has the most venomous bite of any spider in the World; but it's jaws are too small to penetrate an adult's skin. Children may be another matter though

[EternalOptimist]

When the cockles in a cockle bed migrate, they do it as a unit. all together
a bit like wilderbeests