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Thread #93099   Message #1788317
Posted By: GUEST,My Father, Sir
20-Jul-06 - 12:12 PM
Thread Name: BS: Interesting Facts
Subject: RE: BS: Interesting Facts
The largest organism in the world is a fungus that lives in a forest in Canada. It is estimated to be several thousand years old.

If you pick a mouse up by its tail, its eyes will drop out. If you do the same to a weasel, it will gnaw your fingers off.

Lobsters use quantum microfluctuations to aid night navigation, whereas it has been proven that homing pigeons use main roads as their main navigational aid.

There are more molecules in a small glass of water than there are particles of dust in the entire observable universe.

Due to the precession of the equinoxes, there was no visible Pole Star in 1AD. In 3000AD, the current Pole Star will no longer be even approximately in the north, even without the expected Magnetic Pole Inversion.

You can make a good approximation to guacamole from pea-pods and yoghurt.