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Rebrewt is teh 1337.

I watched a show about scorpions last week and its said scorpions can resist exposure to radiation as well.

Humans only grow up more slowly because we have to be born earlier, in order to accomodate our larger brains - and those same larger brains mean that for a human female to give birth to even as feeble and underdeveloped a baby as humans produce, the baby's skull has to be constructed from flexible plates of bone to allow it to pass through the narrow pelvis we need in order to walk upright (which is why newborns have a gap in their skulls where you can feel their pulse. It closes up naturally after a short time, sure, but it's still there).

As regards cold... well, humans started living "indoors", in caves, so obviously their natural resistance to cold was lessened.



Dragonflies are smaller today because the Earth is colder than it was in the dinosaurs' time, and the air is less oxygen-rich, but their design is still pretty sound for what it's intended to do - hover above water and get food.



The platypus is an egg-laying marsupial like the echidna (a very old branch of the marsupial family tree, which is itself far older than other mammal family trees), which indicates that they have a common ancestor somewhere along their ancestral line, and that both are distantly related to more common marsupials like kangaroos and koalas. The platypus is aquatic, so it's got webbed feet and a flat, paddle-like tail to help it travel through the water, much like a beaver.

Its bill (which is, I believe, fleshy like a snout, and not hard like a duck's bill) is there to sift silt and gravel at the bottom of a river so that it can find food - it has such poor eyesight that it relies chiefly on touch to hunt.

Adaptations like this tend not to spring out of nowhere - they take generations to become the norm.

you're all otters! except for that guy named steve who lives in wiscosin with his dog, cat, and 2 and 1/2 fishes! he's a cow.

Buster keaton once shot a movie where he played every member of a Baseball Team on screen at the same time. He used an elaborate fan-like device to mask the lens, and then rewound the film to shoot the next segment. He also had to hire a surveyor who measured out the Baseball field exactly so the correct areas would be masked.

my bob, there are alot of mosquitos outside! *searches quickly for anti-itch cream* anyone else?

Nova Scotia was the first colony in British North America and in the British Empire to achieve responsible government in January-February 1848 and become self-governing through the efforts of Joseph Howe. Pro-Confederate premier Charles Tupper led Nova Scotia into the Canadian Confederation in 1867, along with New Brunswick and the Province of Canada.

The Famous British actor, Christopher Lee, has never even been nominated for an academy award ! !

Fooby is a kamikaze watermelon.

From the earliest times garlic has been used as an article of diet. It is very widely used in Lebanese cuisine. Many Lebanese salads contain a garlic sauce. It formed part of the food of the Israelites in Egypt (Numb. xi. 5) and of the labourers employed by Khufu in constructing the pyramid. Garlic is still grown in Egypt, but the Syrian variety is the kind most esteemed now.

It was consumed by the ancient Greek and Roman soldiers, sailors and rural classes, and, as Pliny tells us, by the African peasantry. Galen eulogizes it as the "rustic's theriac" (cure-all), and Alexander Neckam, a writer of the 12th century, recommends it as a palliative of the heat of the sun in field labor.

A woman's brain is on average 4 ounces lighter than a man's brain.

However, a modern human's brain (of either sex) is smaller overall than that of Neanderthal man.

Woe to the conquered.

Christopher Lee is the ONLY cast member from Lord of the Rings who actually knew JRR Tolkien, and reads all the books once a year.

In the pidgin language spoken by the people of Melanesia, a car is a "schooner belong bush", and a saw is a "pull 'im he come, push 'im he go". A helicopter, meanwhile, is known as a "Mixmaster him belong Jesus Christ".

Kinda makes English look dull, doesn't it?

- In some pagan mythologies, no undead or ghostly creatures (particularly vampires) may cross the path of a wild rose. It was thought that to place a wild rose on a coffin of a recently deceased person would prevent them from rising again.
- Since the earliest times, the rose has been an emblem of silence:
* In Greek Mythology, Eros presents a rose to the god of silence;
* In a Celtic folk legend, a wandering, screaming spirit was silenced by presenting the spirit with a wild rose every new moon.
- Roses were used in very early times as a very potent ingredient in love philters (potions).
- In Rome it was often customary to bless roses on "Rose Sunday".

The women in some parts of Switzerland didn't have the right to vote until 2000.

The last laws against racial segregation in Alabama were taken away 2005.