The useless, but interesting facts thread.

[Legdog]

Jellyfish?

I don't think so...

the portuguese man o' war (physalia physalis)...

despite its outward appearance, the man o' war is not a jellyfish but a siphonophore, which differs from jellyfish in that it is not actually a single creature, but a colonial organism made up of many minute individuals called zooids.[1] each of these zooids is highly specialized, and, although structurally similar to other solitary animals, they are attached to one another and physiologically integrated to the extent that they are incapable of independent survival.

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[Dugie]

you park on a "driveway" and drive on a "parkway"

[C.Read]

Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of the blue whale.

[UncleBubba]

Air guns were used to hunt big game animals in the 17th century

[breederbuck33]

another useless fact is
"I have a ping pong table for sale in the classifieds that no one has bought yet"

i like your technique here!

A virus is not actually composed of cells...

[Fishndude]

Bow kills are to be posted in the Bowhunting Reports section regardless of how famous or popular you think you are.

[Matteo]

Air guns were used to hunt big game animals in the 17th century

Lewis and clark had an air rifle. See it here.

http://www.lewisandclarktrail.com/lewisairgun.htm

[westtexducks]

a blue reflector in the road indicates a fire hydrant is present

So that is what those random reflectors in the road are for.

[Matteo]

So that is what those random reflectors in the road are for.

Yes. Do you know what it means when the reflectors are red????

It means you are going the wrong way. heheh

[Mexico]

Dogs can sweat, but usually only through thier paws.

[Hogman7290]

If you fart for 6 years and 9 months solid, enough gasses are produced to create and atomic bomb

[breederbuck33]

If you take all the cocaine off of all US currency, you would accumulate approx. 600 lbs of cocaine!

[Matteo]

There is a vascular net structure called "Rete Mirable" that is in penguin feet to keep their cold blood in their feet and help control body temps and it is also in a giraffes neck to control blood pressure so that they don't pass out when they put their head down to drink.

[Atfulldraw]

Largest living organism....a single grove of aspen trees in Utah.

It's called the Pando clone, a 106-acre thicket of aspens arising from the same roots.

and it's dying.

[Zen Archery]

The first duckbill-platypus were thought of as a hoax by scientist.