Fact Of The Day

[Flick James]

The FedEx logo contains and "arrow." Most people don't notice it until somebody tells them it's there. Can you spot it?

[Hammock Rider]

Sea cucumbers extract oxygen from water in a pair of 'respiratory trees' that branch off the cloaca just inside the anus, so that they 'breathe' by drawing water in through the anus and then expelling it.

[Raffine]

Sea Cucumbers are one of the only animals to practice evisceration as a self-defense method. This means if one feels threatened by hungry fishies the kooky cuke basically throws its guts up at the fish. Luckily, their guts grow back eventually.

[Flick James]

Sea cucumbers extract oxygen from water in a pair of 'respiratory trees' that branch off the cloaca just inside the anus, so that they 'breathe' by drawing water in through the anus and then expelling it.

So, what you're saying is that the sea cucumber is constantly getting a salt-water colonic?

[Psycho Circus]

Scrabble was invented by an unemployed architect called Alfred Butts.

[Nightowl]

In 1975,Elizabeth Montgomery starred in The Legend of Lizzie Borden where she played the role of Lizzie Borden. It was later discovered that Montgomery was related to Lizzie Borden.

[Psycho Circus]

The tango was invented in Argentina. It was originally devised as a dance between two men.

[Leah]

It is cheaper to insure an Aston Martin DB9 than a Mercedes-Benz SL65 AMG.

[Psycho Circus]

Artichokes are a kind of thistle.

[Leah]

The FedEx logo contains and "arrow." Most people don't notice it until somebody tells them it's there. Can you spot it?

Beat you to it!!

In Fed Ex, There's an arrow between the E & X

[Leah]

Iron Maiden's album Number of the Beast was panned by social conservatives, especially in the United States, where the band were accused of being Satanists. Steve Harris states that "it was mad. They completely got the wrong end of the stick. The obviously hadn't read the lyrics. They just wanted to believe all that rubbish about us being Satanists."

[Hammock Rider]

Sea cucumbers extract oxygen from water in a pair of 'respiratory trees' that branch off the cloaca just inside the anus, so that they 'breathe' by drawing water in through the anus and then expelling it.

So, what you're saying is that the sea cucumber is constantly getting a salt-water colonic?

[Psycho Circus]

The Antarctic is a continent entirely surrounded by oceans; the Arctic is an ocean almost entirely surrounded by continents.

[Newt]

The Russian word "grozny" is mistranslated as "terrible" in the name Ivan the Terrible.  A better translation is "awesome" or "dread", denoting majesty.  

But then: "Ivan the Awesome" just does not have the same punch to it.

[Leah]

They lyre bird can imitate just about every sound the bird hears.