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

Billy goats urinate on their own heads to smell more attractive to females.

How do they do it?! Surely they'd have to lie on their backs and p**s upwards.....?

Perhaps they urinate on EACH OTHER's heads, or is that just sick?

I've got a hole in my sock...

Lettuce is a member of the sunflower family.

Elephants can't jump.

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The two most successful living composers for musical theater, Andrew Lloyd-Webber and Stephen Sondheim, share the same birthday. Sondheim was born on March 22, 1930, and Lloyd-Webber was born on the same date, 1948.

In ancient Greece, if a woman watched even a single Olympic event, she was put to death.

Man is the only primate that can swim.

"Oculolinctus" is a fetish where people are sexually aroused by licking a partner's eyeball.

Obsessive nose-picking is referred to as "rhinotillexomania."

"Urophobia" is the fear of urine or urinating.

Now wait a minute--"man is the only primate that can swim"? What about those Japanese monkeys, macaques I think they're called, that spend a lot of their time swimming from place to place?

Orcas can travel up to eighty miles in one day as they search for food.

A cat spends 30 percent of its life grooming itself.

I knew that macaques spent a lot of time in water - they like to sit in hot pools to keep warm in winter - but I didn't know they could swim. I'd read that primates, other than man, can't swim because the distribution of body fat is wrong. Perhaps I should have said that man is the only *ape* that can swim, 'cos I'm fairly sure that chimpanzees, gorillas and orang utans can't.

My knowledge of macaques comes from about two minutes of watching some nature show on tv. So you're probably right.

The Arabian horse has one less vertebra in its spine than all other breeds of horses, resulting in a shorter neck and back.

The Caspian Sea and the Dead Sea aren't seas. They're lakes

See my pending entry on 'The Sea'

No word rhimes with'orange'

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Or 'opera'

.....or purple!!

Camels have four kneecaps

One on each leg?

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