Useless Facts

Toraigh (Tory Island) is the most remote inhabited island of Ireland. The name Tory comes from the Middle Irish word Tóraidhe, meaning bandit.
The island is situated 9 miles off the coast of County Donegal, and it has no trees on account of it's high winds.

 

Squirrels fail to recover 74% of the nuts they bury.

 

They are. I once saw a squirrel throw it’s kin off a tree. Why? No clue. One minute they’re near each other on a branch and the next, Squirrel A made a move, knocking Squirrel B off.

 

We have these pretty adorable Eurasian red squirrels, though I have never seen them in the flesh.

 

Seem them in the skeleton eh?

 

SAM.

 

They are rats with funny tails.

 

The forces of gravity between Io and Jupiter are not enough to sustain its volcanic heat/cycle. The energy to heat Io is from the massive electromagnetic interaction with Jupiter.

 

Wait, were we both writing about Jupiter at the same time on different threads? I believe we were...

 

By Callisto's orbit!

 

Future scientists will discover we had the cause and effect confused and Jupiter's electromagnetic field is, in fact, a side effect of Io's massive vulcanism

 

Some snakes, including copperhead and cottonmouth pit vipers, can reproduce asexually by a process called pathogenesis. They can make either full clones of themselves, or partial copies.

Some snakes, such as boas, birth live young instead of eggs.

 

I love those stories you read about, once in a blue moon, where a zoo has a reptile or some other parthogenic creature they didn't realize could do it, and then one day... "OMG WE CAME INTO WORK AND THERE WAS A BABY! There was only one of them in the sodding enclosure!"

 

And you say that I come out of left field!?

 

The reason behind this is that a female can store sperm for up to 6 years, and it remains healthy.

 

Cool. Just long as they're not expecting a medal or anything...

 

I imagine it would be hard for them to wear, on account of slithering across the ground. I suspect insurance would also be problematic for that reason.

 

It's suppose to be the kid from the beginning of the movie,
where he tells Grant; "More like a six foot turkey."

 

But I have no idea what film you're talking about. Again.

 

AND YOU'RE MARRYING THIS WOMAN, @Cave Troll ???????????

That's almost sacrilege!!!!

Any lady that can't properly identify the metal kitchen cabinets from Jurassic Park would not be good enough for me.
But then again, I have high standards. High, high, lonely standards.