Strange but true.
Neffa Offline
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OK I love odd pieces of information and I’m always willing to learn more. By strange I mean true. Here’s my first 5 to whet your appitites. 

Camels can’t walk on ice - it’s because they move their legs unlike most mammals e.g both sides together. That movement is what can make people sea sick. 

It takes 2 watering cans to fill a grow bag tray. The birds love to bath in it outside our front window. 

Honey bee’s cannot fly. According to scientists their body mass is too heavy for their wing span. Has anybody told the bee’s yet?

Giraffes have the same amount of neck bones as we do. 

There is only a 4% difference in genetic makeup between us and a banana.
Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes. 

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Butterflies taste with their feet!
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Jimny14 Offline
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I thought bees swam rather than flew, something to do with relative size and air density if my brains working today.

The first lift shaft was put in a building a few years before the invention of the Otis safety elevator.
The building designer was convinced a lift would be invented soon so put the shaft in. Unfortunately his lift shaft was circular so his building didn't end up being the first building to have a working passenger lift.
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You can’t lick your own elbow  Tongue
Coffee keeps me busy until it’s acceptable to drink whiskey.
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Greenfingers Offline
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(26-05-2020, 08:18 PM)Can the Man Wrote: You can’t lick your own elbow  Tongue

I agree. I have just tried!
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Can the Man Offline
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(26-05-2020, 10:38 PM)Greenfingers Wrote:
(26-05-2020, 08:18 PM)Can the Man Wrote: You can’t lick your own elbow  Tongue

I agree. I have just tried!
Everybody tries once they read it  Big Grin
Coffee keeps me busy until it’s acceptable to drink whiskey.
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(26-05-2020, 08:18 PM)Can the Man Wrote: You can’t lick your own elbow  Tongue


The skin on your elbow has no pain receptors.
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Mikey Offline
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The skin on my elbow is dry, can someone else give it a lick. Smile

Also when I was a kid I was told you couldn’t go swimming straight after you’d eaten as you’d get a cramp and might drown. Discovered tonight, that was complete twaddle QI told me. How many more are there?

My mother had a saying for warts, that had something to do with buying it off you and shoving it up a horses rear but, I don’t remember it. Someone will come along shortly and tell me that’s a lie too!!
A pocket knife is not a weapon in the right hands it’s an essential garden tool.
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Small chilli Offline
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(26-05-2020, 03:59 PM)Neffa Wrote: There is only a 4% difference in genetic makeup between us and a banana.
Explains a lot  Wink
Builder that would like to go play in the garden.
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JJB Offline
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(27-05-2020, 12:09 AM)Mikey Wrote: The skin on my elbow is dry, can someone else give it a lick. Smile

Also when I was a kid I was told you couldn’t go swimming straight after you’d eaten as you’d get a cramp and might drown. Discovered tonight, that was complete twaddle QI told me. How many more are there?

My mother had a saying for warts, that had something to do with buying it off you and shoving it up a horses rear but, I don’t remember it. Someone will come along shortly and tell me that’s a lie too!!

The lies parents tell their children!   Like if you pull a face and the wind changes you'll stick with the funny face.
Gardening is an excuse not to do housework
Greetings from Salisbury
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