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The mantis shrimp has the strongest punch in the animal kingdom.

Urmstongran

The magnitude of difference between billion and million can be illustrated with this example of the time scale:

A million seconds is 12 days.
A billion seconds is 31 years.

That's really interesting, and worth memorising as so many figures are bandied about (govt spending and such), without most of us having a real grasp of the enormity of what a billion is.

The chicken and the ostrich are the closest living relatives to the tyrannosaurus rex.

A cat has 32 muscles in it's ear.

Indeed HPQ It blew my mind a couple of years ago when I read it.
I’ve used it occasionally in conversation to illustrate the magnitude of difference.
I seem to have an empty seat next to me quite often these days.
Funny that…
🤣

Unthaw means the same as thaw. Susie Dent just told me.

nadateturbe

Unthaw means the same as thaw. Susie Dent just told me.

Really, "un" usually denotes the opposite of something. I can't think of an example where it doesn't. I guess Susie knows what she's talking about.

A kestrel in the 16th century was know as a windf*cker, it's to do with their suggestive movements ad they hover

Urmstongran

Indeed HPQ It blew my mind a couple of years ago when I read it.
I’ve used it occasionally in conversation to illustrate the magnitude of difference.
I seem to have an empty seat next to me quite often these days.
Funny that…
🤣

As do I as I sit musing, looking at the scampo on the end of my fork ....longing for someone to come along and ask what I am eating

Keeping these useless facts travel related... I'm planning a trip to Barcelona in September. Did you know that the design for the Eiffel Tower was submitted to Barcelona for the exposition in 1888. It was rejected as being too garish, and instead was re-pitched for the Paris 1889 World Fair and accepted.

Muy interesante!

flappergirl

nadateturbe

Unthaw means the same as thaw. Susie Dent just told me.

Really, "un" usually denotes the opposite of something. I can't think of an example where it doesn't. I guess Susie knows what she's talking about.

Definitions from Oxford Languages
verb
thaw or cause to thaw.
"the warm weather helped unthaw the rail lines"

Every day is a school day on GN. 😉

I was always taught to use thaw or defrost.

But they did live near a beach...

keepcalmandcavachon

A kestrel in the 16th century was know as a windf*cker, it's to do with their suggestive movements ad they hover

I plan to shout this next time I see one!! 🤣🤣🤣

If a polar bear gets its fur wet swimming it rubs itself on snow and ice which helps to dry the fur. Snow and ice act like a towel.

To leave our Galaxy, we would have to travel about 500 light-years vertically, or about 25,000 light-years away from the galactic centre.

A chicken called Mike lived for well over a year with no head.
His owner, having decapitated Mike, fed him by syringing food into his neck.

Callistemon21

To leave our Galaxy, we would have to travel about 500 light-years vertically, or about 25,000 light-years away from the galactic centre.

This kind of stuff blows my mind. I love watching Brian Cox's videos but I'm always in awe of just how huge, far away and fast everything is!

MissAdventure

A chicken called Mike lived for well over a year with no head.
His owner, having decapitated Mike, fed him by syringing food into his neck.

😯

Brings new meaning to 'running round like a headless chicken'

Prof Cox o the Milky Way
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09ybxpr

Horrible and fascinating.
I wonder I'd they still ate poor Mike when he died?

Callistemon21

Prof Cox o the Milky Way
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09ybxpr

Thank you Callistemon21

I will catch up with it tomorrow sometime 😊

MissAdventure

Horrible and fascinating.
I wonder I'd they still ate poor Mike when he died?

Depends if they managed to catch him 🤷

I bet he ran like hell when they tried!
Well, he wouldnt be able to see where he was running, I suppose.