Fact Of The Day

[AquarianDragon]

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

[Rainbowmum]

England’s King George I was actually German.

[megumidesu]

England’s King George I was actually German.

a lot of england's kings and queens have been at least a bit german lol ~

[monk]

The odor of Scotch whisky is composed of more than 300 chemical substances.

And it's still bloody horrible!

[Rainbowmum]

^ Yikes.

Let them eat cake.
The story goes that she uttered this when she was informed that the rebellion had invaded the Bastille, and that it could no longer be ignored. The thing is, she never actually said that. It came from a book by Rousseau written when Queen Marie was about seven years old.

[azulai]

Spiders have flexor muscles to contract their legs but lack extensor muscles to extend them back out. So they use hydraulic pressure in their legs to move. Basically blood is pumped into the legs extending them back out as the flexor muscles relax. Then the flexor muscles contract as pressure is relieved. Spiders move using this combination of hydraulics and internal muscles with their blood as hydraulic fluid. It's actually a very efficient system, too. mile:

When spiders die their legs curl up since there is no more hydraulic pressure to extend the legs, and the flexor muscles go back to their original length with no resistance.

[Lilitu]

If you drop molten glass into cold water, it creates a teardrop shaped piece of glass that can withstand a hammer but if the tip is broken, it shatters explosively.

[Rainbowmum]

A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!

[monk]

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

[Lilitu]

Redology is the study of one specific chinese novel: The dream od the red chamber written in the Qing dynasty. Some consider the book to be the 'book of the millenium'