Knowledge of your world

[KeepYourEyesPeel]

How many little facts do you know about the world around you?

[bibblebub]

6327

[Mani_H]

Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.

[boxtops]

The price of parrots is going up

[factor-fiction]

Usernames are getting longer.
How small is 'little'?

[Tilly2]

In autumn, leaves fall from the trees!

[boxtops]

If ants were as big as us, there would be no room for us

[Tilly2]

This is daft.

[bibblebub]

shaw taylor lives

[atalanta]

If all animal life on earth could be weighed and added up, one tenth of all that weight would be the ants.

[woofgang]

42

[boxtops]

Elvis has left the building

[Prudie]

I don't know much about other ABers' pets.

[ChuckFickens]

My tv stand needs dusting.

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

That really bright star out there tonight is Jupiter.

[FredPuli43]

Bob Holness never played an intro for any recording, but he did play James Bond once.

[maggiebee]

Yes FP, on radio

[maggiebee]

I also know that there are a lot of scarey people on here.

[woofgang]

If its low, bright and doesn't twinkle, its either Venus or the Space Station.

[woofgang]

Bob Holness didn't play the sax on Baker Street

[FredPuli43]

Geography: Kitchener, Ontario, changed its name from Berlin, because of ant-German sentiment in World War I
Nome, Alaska, is so called because a British naval officer, charged with surveying the coast, wrote 'Name' on the chart, against the cape where it stands, but this was misread, not as questioning the name of the cape, but as Nome, its name.