Strange... Unusual... And Interesting Facts...

[TallTree01]

A rat can last without water longer than a camel.
The inventor of the popular drink 7-UP is albino.
Clenching your left fist will almost stop the gag reflex.
Try it now by clenching your left fist and shoving your right hand down your throat.
Laser is actually an acronym for "Light Amplification by Stimulated Emissions of Radiation."

A boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the wright bros first flight

 

[daizeUK]

Clenching your left fist will almost stop the gag reflex.
Try it now by clenching your left fist and shoving your right hand down your throat.

Tempting... but no.

 

[TwoTankAmin]

Love this one.....
 

 

[sawickib]

Heres some about fish.. 
 

• Catfish have over 27,000 taste buds. Humans have around 7,000.
• Most brands of lipstick contain fish scales.
• Lungfish can live out of water for several years. It secretes a mucus cocoon and burrows itself under the unbaked earth. It takes in air with its lung through a built-in breathing tube that leads to the surface. A lungfish has both gills and a lung.
• Seahorses are the only fish that swim upright.
• Electric eels and electric rays have enough electricity to kill a horse.
• Sharks are the only fish that have eyelids.
• An estimated one third of male fish in British waters are changing sex due to pollution in human sewage.
• Saltwater fish need to drink more water than freshwater fish. Since seawater is saltier than the liquids in a fish’s body, water inside the fish is constantly flowing out. If they didn’t drink to replace the lost water, saltwater fish would dry up like prunes.
• Most fish cannot swim backwards. Those that can are mainly members of one of the eel families.
• Fish would suffocate if they tried to chew because chewing would interfere with water passing over their gills.
• The slowest fish is a seahorse. It swims so slowly that a person can barely tell it is moving. The slowest is the Dwarf Seahorse, which takes about one hour to travel five feet. It even looks like it is simply standing up, not swimming.
• Fish have multiple Christian and pre-Christian overtones. For example, the Greek word for fish is Ichthys, which is an acronym for “Jesus Christ, God’s Son, Savior” and was used to mark early Christian tombs and meeting places. Because of their association with fertility, fish have also been linked to Isis and Aphrodite.
• Hammerhead sharks can live in schools of more than 500 sharks. The strongest female swims in the middle. When she is ready to mate, she shakes her head from side to side to signal the other female sharks to move away so she is the center of attention.
• Anableps, four-eyed fish, can see above and below water at the same time.
• Male anglerfish are much smaller than the female. While the female can reach up to 24 inches long, the males barely reach 1.6 inches long and live as parasites on their mates. They stay together for life. As the male ages, he gets smaller and smaller. The female anglerfish’s light is always “on
• Fish were the first vertebrates with bony skeletons to appear on Earth. Unlike today’s fish, early fish had no scales, fins, or jawbone, but they did have a dorsal fin.
• Hagfish are some of the slimiest animals on earth. An Atlantic hagfish can make enough slime in one minute to fill a bucket.
• Unlike most other fish, the ocean sunfish does not have a tail. A female sunfish can lay 300 million eggs each year. Each egg is smaller than the period at the end of a sentence.
• The freshwater Pygmy and Luzon gobies of the Philippines, the saltwater Marshal Islands goby, and the tiny rice fish from Thailand all reach a maximum length of 1/2", roughly the size of a grain of rice. They are typically considered the world’s smallest fishes.

There you go all the ones ive never heard before for the most part.

 

[Ludwig Venter]

Did you know.... (lol)... I have this same topic posted on 3 fish forums..... Most of the daily facts that I am using on my daily Skype talk "fact of the day" topic.... comes from this fish forum.... Thanks for keeping it alive.....

 

[eaglesaquarium]

Fact of the Day:  Ludwig loves TFF best.

 

[the_lock_man]

I heard this on the radio, so cannot vouch for its veracity.
 
The lower end of the human hearing range is 20Hz. Any lower than that and we would be able to hear our own muscles moving.

 

[eaglesaquarium]

I don't know about the second part of that statement TLM... but I can vouch for the first part.  Human hearing ranges from ~20Hz - 20,000 Hz.
 
 
I sincerely doubt the second part, as elephants have infrasounds that they make and can hear to communicate with one another, and from long ranges.  Does that mean they would hear their own muscles moving?

 

[the_lock_man]

Are you telling me that Wave 105 FM tells untruths?
 
Next you'll be telling me the Tooth Fairy doesn't exist either.......

 

[eaglesaquarium]

No comment.

 

[TallTree01]

No comment.

By saying no comment you just unwillingly commented.

A rat can tread water for 3 days.

 

[daizeUK]

A baby is born with more than 300 bones some of which fuse together during childhood. An adult has only 206 bones.
Here's a valentine's card on the subject (contains rude humour): https/pbs.twimg.com/media/BiJ1oe7IgAAztTG.jpg:large

 

[malfunction]

All human embryos begun as females

 

[the_lock_man]

All human embryos begun as females

 
I've always found that one an interesting philosophical argument. To say that all embryos start as female and then some switch to male implies that it is a random process - which we all know it isn't, the gender of a baby is determined by the x or y chromosome delivered by the sperm. So, can an embryo which is always going to turn into a male be truly female? It is never going to be able to produce ova, therefore it cannot be female.
 
I think it's more a case that the appearance of the genitalia is identical in pre-7week foetuses, then female genitalia stay that way, whereas male genitalia change their appearance.

 

[malfunction]

All human embryos begun as females

 
I've always found that one an interesting philosophical argument. To say that all embryos start as female and then some switch to male implies that it is a random process - which we all know it isn't, the gender of a baby is determined by the x or y chromosome delivered by the sperm. So, can an embryo which is always going to turn into a male be truly female? It is never going to be able to produce ova, therefore it cannot be female.
 
I think it's more a case that the appearance of the genitalia is identical in pre-7week foetuses, then female genitalia stay that way, whereas male genitalia change their appearance.

I definitely agree that it's an interesting philosophical argument. I suppose it depends on how you define the genders. The presence/absence of the Y chromosome isn't always the decisive factor in determining gender. If it were, then androgen insensitive women wouldn't exist. These are individuals who have the have the external characteristics of women (depending on how insensitive they are), but are genetically male.

Also, I don't think think anyone implies that the switch that occurs is random. I think the most popular explanation holds that the process is controlled by the production of androgens by the Y chromosome.