Fascinating Facts and Trivia

The Battle of Hastings didn’t take place in Hastings. Famous Battle of Hastings actually took place 7 miles from Hastings in a town that is today known as Battle.

While trying to find a cure for AIDS, the Mayo Clinic made glow in the dark cats. This is due to their use a specific protein that was fluorescent green. They used this protein to find out if their tests worked: if the animal glowed, the outcome was successful.

A swarm of 20,000 bees followed a car for two days because their queen was stuck inside. When the car parked, the thousands of bees swarmed onto the car and had to be taken off by beekeepers. The next day, the bees were back on the car because the queen was still inside and the swarm had to be taken off again.

Nearly 3% of the ice in Antarctic glaciers is penguin urine. Because the temperature in the Antarctic is well below zero, the urine can’t evaporate and just combines with the glaciers.

A crocodile can’t poke its tongue out. Because their tongues are attached to the roof of their mouths, crocodiles cannot stick their tongues out – although their very similar counterparts, alligators, can.

Before mating, the female giraffe will first urinate in the male’s mouth

Oh utterly charming!

I'm doing this from memory. I remember reading about this once.
Did you know that in the porn industry in the 1970's they had various tricks they used to fool customers into thinking that what they saw was actually happening. For example in some porn films(and I hasten to add I was far too young to have ever seen anything like this) apparently to simulate cum they would use wallpaper paste! Apparently nowadays if the man can't cum they use other viscous material like hand cream!

Fireworks are totally illegal in Florida but are sold to ordinary people in huge quantities via hundreds of stores across the state to anyone who signs a waiver saying they’re for agricultural use to scare birds away from crops.

The Mongols would catapult the dead bodies of soldiers infected by the bubonic plague over city walls during sieges. This was one of the earliest known accounts of biological warfare.

Counterfeit cigarettes have been found to contain dead flies, mould and human faeces.

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A Male honey bee’s ejaculation is so strong it makes his dick explode, killing him.

Coming and going at the same time...

Splashing cold water on your face basically turns you into a diving superhero. It’s called the Mammalian Diving Reflex.

When you splash cold water on your face, your heart rate slows considerably. That means you use up less oxygen and can remain underwater for longer.

(04-07-2019 19:16 )Carl-Gen X Wrote:  A Male honey bee’s ejaculation is so strong it makes his dick explode, killing him.

Coming and going at the same time...

No need to DRONE on about it

(04-07-2019 19:36 )GMach1 Wrote:  

(04-07-2019 19:16 )Carl-Gen X Wrote:  A Male honey bee’s ejaculation is so strong it makes his dick explode, killing him.

Coming and going at the same time...

No need to DRONE on about it

*groans*

Oh buzz off..