The "Did You Know" Thread

[lizard]

Cheetahs are the only cats with nonretractable claws.

 

[lizard]

A new attraction in the Cognac region of France will allow tourists to watch paleontologists at work, unearthing 135 million year old fish, tortoises, crocodiles, pterosaurs and dinosaurs of "impressive size, number, and integrity".

 

[lizard]

Cats have jacobsen's organs.
(Alex didn't know this.)

 

[lizard]

At first Washington was hesitant about enlisting blacks. But when he heard they had fought well at Bunker Hill, he changed his mind. The all-black First Rhode Island Regiment -- composed of 33 freedmen and 92 slaves who were promised freedom if they served until the end of the war -- distinguished itself in the Battle of Newport. Later, they were all but wiped out in a British attack.

 

[lizard]

I am the only person currently on this board.

 

[lizard]

Did you know that the British version of "Frampton Comes Alive II" contains 4 songs not found on the US version?

 

[avi]

did you know that Jake is a big fat liar?

 

[lizard]

If I was in Minneapolis I would want to go here for a shaken but not stirred martini.

 

[lizard]

 

[minxnim]

we're all going to die.

 

[xfer]

- I wore a bow tie to school once in about 10th grade.

 

[minxnim]

i used to have a second row of teeth (4 extra) before i got braces and had surgery

 

[mindspell]

Frank Zappa once came on stage for a show rolling a bed on stage, setting an alarm and then proceed to sleep for two hours until the alarm went off. After which he proceeded to tell the remaining audience to go home because the show was finished.

 

[xfer]

"B" is for Basil, assaulted by bears.