My current favourite fact
Bulls, like a lot of animals, are colourblind. Chickens are not.

Chickens have been known to peck at small cuts on their brethren, until the whole escapade turns into a bloodbath. Whole sheds of chickens have been decimated in the resulting free for all.

A few years ago, a company had the bright idea of fitting chickens with red contact lenses. This made them insensitive to red, they couldn't see blood, they stopped getting bloodlust and scrapping.

They had to discontinue their invention because of how hard to fit these were and the eye infections they induced.

But until then, this must have been the stuff of nightmares: You walk in to your chicken shed late at night to give them a pre-bedtime snack. One thousand red beady eyes slowly turn and fix on you as a silence descends on the flock.

You turn to see a row of red dots quietly file across the doorway behind you.

What's your favourite fact?
(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Fri 20 Mar 2009, 8:21, 18 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I have only one fact off the top of my head
Bats turn left when exiting a cave.
( gareth_alien will be human again at, Fri 20 Mar 2009, 8:44, Reply)

You can milk a dead walrus
Getting up to 16 quarts of milk. Wait an hour and it will give almost as much again.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 20 Mar 2009, 8:53, Reply)

It might be something similar to birds of prey
Raptors can see the urine trails of prey animals as bright dayglow trails.
I'm pretty sure there's a certain plant's defence mechanism that, when eaten, makes rodent piss even more fluorescent to BOP's.
(oneinthepink is at your cervix m'lady, Fri 20 Mar 2009, 8:54, Reply)

You can't buy one alpaca
because they are pack animals.

And they always poo in the same part of the field, and they always give birth in daylight. They're that sweet.
( warmfuzzies Isn't here, Fri 20 Mar 2009, 8:58, Reply)

Zebras are black (or dark) with white stripes.
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Fri 20 Mar 2009, 9:17, Reply)

Wow
Love it. I wonder who first tried to milk a dead walrus? That's nicely disturbing.

And that's a curious twist of evolution: The plant punishing anything which eats it by making it easy pray.
(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Fri 20 Mar 2009, 9:17, Reply)

Men are crap. FACT!
Just some are less crap than others.





I still want one though.
( girlinthehole, Fri 20 Mar 2009, 10:13, Reply)

The evolution thing with the plants is fun
because it involves two species - the plants with that defence mechanism survive to pass on their genes because vermin who eat them don't survive to pass on theirs.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 20 Mar 2009, 10:20, Reply)

You'll get nothing
with that attitude young lady!
( gareth_alien will be human again at, Fri 20 Mar 2009, 10:21, Reply)

@Gareth.
*laughs*



I always assume all men are crap and then when it turns out they aren't it's a nice surprise for me.
( girlinthehole, Fri 20 Mar 2009, 10:33, Reply)

If a cow has twins
She only has the brain power to remember the face/identity of one of them. Therefore the other is shunned and left to fend for itself and die...
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Fri 20 Mar 2009, 10:42, Reply)

That is a bit rude of the cow
to only remember one face.

Actually, I think I know people like that.....
( flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Fri 20 Mar 2009, 11:25, Reply)

I think it's been discussed before but I like this one.
If you were to wear some glasses that make everything upside-down, your brain will eventually right the image after a week or so.
Take the glasses off and everything is upside-down again.

I'd like to know what happens if you wear just a monocle.
(oneinthepink is at your cervix m'lady, Fri 20 Mar 2009, 11:37, Reply)

@oitp
Headaches.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Fri 20 Mar 2009, 13:24, Reply)

Fat birds try harder.
FACT.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Fri 20 Mar 2009, 13:24, Reply)

Ugly people are better kissers.
TRUFAX!
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Fri 20 Mar 2009, 13:38, Reply)

It's true that fat birds try harder.
Now that I've lost lots of weight I just lie there and let my partner bask in the beauty of my lithe body while he grunts and thrusts like a demented grunting and thrusting thing till I achieve orgasm. Then I go to sleep while he finishes himself off.
( girlinthehole, Fri 20 Mar 2009, 13:51, Reply)

Agnostic Antichrist snogs ugly fat birds so is wel qualified to state that ugly people are better kissers.
1000000% TRUE
( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Fri 20 Mar 2009, 14:19, Reply)