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

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Feel sorry. Let mercy sink. Blow.



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I've just recalled the truly horrendous fact that a cockroach with its head chopped off with continue to live for a few days until it expires from dehydration.

Also, take two 'roaches, lop the heads off both, swap the heads around and stick them back on the opposite bodies, and they'll wander off about their daily business as though nothing has happened.

Marvellous.

Fledge.

Eh?

What?

That's what I mean.

True... like I thought the spider-swallowing story was real, until I read The Truth! and thought, "Ah, don't I feel a goon."
Here is a useless-information seeking question: does anyone know what contraceptive pills actually taste like if you chew them? They're all sickly-sweet due to the sugar coating, but what would happen if you crunched one up? I've been tempted to, but put off that it might taste like when you chew cod liver oil capsules, and also that it might interfere with its function (something about slow release of the drug). Anyone wise on this?

That´s one thing I learned as a child, never chew on those little funny pills. They taste horrible.

It´s true you can chop the head off a cockroach and it will keep on living. Happens to a lot of animals. But how do you put the heads back on? Using scotch tape? You would have to make all the nerve ends meet, and that is quite a task.

I recently heard on a news program about a chicken that lived for some time after having its head cut off. Can't remember how it was fed though.

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hey, i found some more useless info:

its impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
albatrosses sleep while they fly
every hour 17 species of plants/animals become extinct
2,300,000 blocks were used to build the great pyramid

Dolphins sleep with one eye open. Sharks I expect.

The chicken was called Mike and he lived for 2 or 5 years. He survived because the man who was killing him for dinner cut off the head leaving most of the neck, as his mother liked that bit best. Some part of its nervous system (chickens not well-developed in that area) escaped damage. He was fed with an eye-dropper, into his oesophagus and kept at the university of (somewhere American, begins with M.) The town where he was 'born' now has a statue to him, and they have an annual 'Mike the Headless Chicken' festival. He has his own website.
Vague, sorry. I'll find the article out. But it was in Fortean Times, just like the liver thing- they wouldn't lie to us.

Adding to MS...

Mike lived aprox. 18 months. He was able to balance on high perches and would try to crow, but what came out was just a gurgling sound. He would also try to preen his feathers with his non-existant head.

His head was chopped off but the farmer who cut off his head didn't do a good job of it, he missed the jugular and left one ear intact. A blood clot kept Mike from bleading to death.

Thankyou.
Imagine if Mike had become zombie-like and terrorised people. The Headless Chicken of Sleepy Hollow.... whooo, stuff of nightmares.

Something similarhas actually happened. Francis Bacon once got the idea that freezing things down could preserve them. Whyw e now have fridges. In one of his experiments he killed a chicken and plucked it´s feathers off. For some time after people reported seeing the ghost of a featherless chicken haunting the estate.

That 17 species is probably b******s, I´ll look up the real number.

I looked it up, the real number is actually 0.208% of the species per decade. Besides, since when is the number of species being terminated a useless fact?

I'm worried about Phreako - he hasn`t checked in for a couple of days now with the usual lack of useless info`. Do you think it`s possible he has stumbled onto some useful information and is in shock ?

Red

I found the 17 plant and animal species bit in National Geographic World Magazine, which is obviously put out by National Geographic, which wouldn't have the wrong information on things like that. Your number is a percentage. Perhaps it's the percentage of the number of extinct animals and plants out of the entire number of plant and animal species in total per decade? That would make a lot more sense.

I have some information today

Phreako is not a he

Back to the headless info

King Charles I of England reputedly walked about for half an hour after his head was cut off.

I heard you can still see 10 seconds after your head was cut off.