[fordgtlover]

Dolphins are the only animal other than humans that have sex for pleasure.

 

[Televator]

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Originally Posted by fordgtlover /img/forum/go_quote.gif Dolphins are the only animal other than humans that have sex for pleasure.

source? I always remembered Bonobos as another sort, but I forgot where I got that...

 

[ken36]

Get Smart:

Perhaps the most recognizable 'gag' from the show was Smart's shoe phone, which has become somewhat of a comic icon: Smart would communicate with CONTROL using a rotary-dialed telephone concealed in his shoe, similar to a modern cell phone. While such a device was decades ahead of its time in real life (see Sneaker Phone), its numerous design flaws — such as the loud bell ("Excuse me, I think your shoe is ringing!"), the need to take off his shoe to use it and that it required a dime to place a call — led to various humorously awkward situations. This was possibly a parody of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. wherein the agents' communicators made a loud sound but only they ever seemed to hear it.

 

[Quaddy]

Antarctica is the only continent without reptiles or snakes

 

[lisnalee]

An adult bedbug can survive up to one year without feeding.

 

[ken36]

Many famous people in the film and music industry have been born in Wisconsin.

 

[fordgtlover]

Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name was Moon.

 

[amphead]

The Tambourine is the only musical instrument that can be mastered by homo erectus within the first 5 minutes of use, and does not require an instruction manual.

 

[Quaddy]

The city of Chicago has the only post office in the world where you can drive your car through

 

[lisnalee]

Cockroaches can live for nine days without their heads, at which point they die of starvation

 

[ken36]

A lawsuit filed in federal court today in Seattle seeks to force the Bush administration to restrict pesticides that affect salmon. The lawsuit was filed by the Earthjustice law firm on behalf of salmon advocates. It asks the judge to order NOAA Fisheries and the Environmental Protection Agency to consider more regulations for 37 pesticides that can kill salmon.

 

[Quaddy]

According to the Gemological Institute of America, up until the 1730's, India was the only source for diamonds in the world.

 

[lisnalee]

TRISKAIDEKAPHOBIA is the unnatural fear of the number "13".

 

[EhJayKim]

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Originally Posted by amphead /img/forum/go_quote.gif The Tambourine is the only musical instrument that can be mastered by homo erectus within the first 5 minutes of use, and does not require an instruction manual.

Can I get a source on that one?

 

[ken36]

The Pink Panther is a series of comedy films featuring the bumbling French police detective Jacques Clouseau. The role was originated by, and is most closely associated with, Peter Sellers. Most of the films were directed and co-written by Blake Edwards, with notable theme music composed by Henry Mancini.Despite its use in the titles of most of the films of the series, "The Pink Panther" is not the Clouseau character, but a large and valuable fictitious diamond which is the "MacGuffin" of the first film in the series. It bears that name because the flaw at its center, when viewed closely, is said to resemble a leaping pink panther. The phrase reappears in the title of the fourth film, The Return of the Pink Panther, in which the theft of the diamond is again the center of the plot. The film marked the return of Sellers to the role after a gap of ten years. The phrase has been used for all the subsequent films in the series, even when the jewel does not figure into the plot (the diamond has only appeared in five of the ten films in the series).