h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Pfffft: Look it up.


now *that* was a waste of time You copied straight out of my book. Next time, at least have the confuzzlement to paraphrase your codimental offerings

Donald Duck comics were (allegedly) banned from Finland, cos he doesnt wear pants


(he could have had them bitten off him by a big shark)

which leads me to my next useless fact

Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

seahorses are hermaphrodites.

there is an obscure sea creature (of which the name escapes me) who bites off the penis of her mate after reproduction.

double

Useless fact: small monkeys in zoos will start vigorously shagging immediately after a child tells his/her granny how cute they are.

a crocodiles tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth.

"the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is the only sentence which uses every single letter of the alphabet

the common housefly lives for approximately 17 days

there is no time in a black hole

if you fell down a black hole, possible 3 things would happen:

you would be stretched into a particle string and would then fall into another universe

be stretched into a particle string and then be sucked into a wormhole

be stretched into a particle string and then hit the singularity at the bottom of the black hole.

the very edge of a black hole, which is usually ringed with undigested light that exists outside the gravity in the hole is called the event horizon.

a black hole is the product of the implosion or collapse of a massive star.

phew.

what happens when you vomit in a black hole?

>>""the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is the only sentence which uses every single letter of the alphabet"<<

Not hardly... there are enough that there's a name for them. They are called pangrams.

Here's one I found here on h2g2: Mr Jock, TV Quiz PhD, bags few lynx.

Here's a few others from Wikipedia: My girl wove six dozen plaid jackets before she quit.
My faxed joke won a pager in the cable TV quiz show.
Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.

does anyone know what their weight in flies is?

The average flyweight is about 50kgs and as I weigh about 60kgs, I reckon my weight in flies is about 1.2

jeez louise
where do you live?? i'm gonna get a complex about flies now.. i would have thought the average fly weighed the same as, say 3 grains of sugar or summat....

(makes note to build fly bunker.)

Not a boxing fan are you Aye bee?

well i am, but i was on a different train o thought u see.. being a natural blonde it's difficult for me sometimes..

I was on a different train as well for a while.

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what about the posh ones? I expect they live longer because of a better more expensive diet, and classier surroundings, and being able to afford private healthcare and all that.

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Only during warmer months. In freezing weather they will survive the season in a protected place often in the pupal or larval stage but sometimes as an adult.

Euuww, so I've got lurking common houseflies thorugh winter?
*shudder*

There was a very shy dinosaur called the "Doyouthinkhesaurus".