Little known facts

[Tone]

Peek a boo!

 

[returntosender]

when flies take off they fly backwards before they fly forward, so if you're trying to hit one while it's landed aim behind it, not in front of it.
tulc(learned this from 29 years of doing Christian music fest in the beginning of July)

Flys sleep at night and if you juggle a tree they will scatter
That's where they sleep.

 

[angelsaroundme]

Brazilian prisoners are allowed to reduce their sentence by four days for every book that they read. There is, however, a 12 book maximum per year that can be counted against their prison time and not all books are accepted for the program.

 

[returntosender]

That's so cool!!

 

[Chesterton]

I took a shower today. Not the least bit interesting, but there was no one else there, and since I haven't yet posted about it on social media, I think it qualifies as a little known fact.

 

[GodLovesCats]

KFC is considered a traditional Christmas meal in Japan. Millions eat there every year for the holiday.

I thought most people in Japan are not Christians.

 

[GodLovesCats]

How about this for a little-known fact: Canada geese are not named after one of their native lands. Never call them Canadian geese!

 

[angelsaroundme]

I thought most people in Japan are not Christians.

That is correct. Japanese Christmas is more about family and couples. They seem to like Santa and Christmas trees a lot. Here is a short video of how busy KFC gets at Christmas.

 

[Chesterton]

In 1991 a Swedish couple gave birth to a little boy. They named him Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116, which is illegal in Sweden.

 

[Chesterton]

Here is a short video of how busy KFC gets at Christmas.

Something else interesting is that they have different business practices. In America, companies hire temporary workers for busy times. They don't do that much in Japan, so everyone helps out. Even high-level executives go to the restaurants to serve chicken to customers.

 

[angelsaroundme]

Something else interesting is that they have different business practices. In America, companies hire temporary workers for busy times. They don't do that much in Japan, so everyone helps out. Even high-level executives go to the restaurants to serve chicken to customers.

That is fascinating. I didn't know that. Makes sense though, Japan has a different work ethic or mindset.

 

[Bob Crowley]

Due to television and nature shows, I think most of us would be familiar with the story of salmon travelling upstream to breed, and then they die. We've probably seen pictures of bears having a field day at their local rapids.

In Australia and New Zealand our short finned eels do the opposite. They'll live for years in fresh water creeks and dams, and then when the time comes they'll swim out to the Coral Sea (which is a long journey for some of them), spawn at a depth of around 300 metres, and then they die. The elvers make the return trip back right back to the freshwater pond where their parents lived.

Native Fish Australia

Eels - aquaculture prospects

Eels have a complex reproductive life-cycle. Eels are known as catadromous - that is, they live in freshwater but migrate to the ocean to breed. Every year adult eels (known otherwise as silver eels) migrate from the east coast of Australia and New Zealand to the Coral Sea, where it is thought that they spawn at depths of around 300m. Eels spawn only once in their lifetime, and after spawning it is presumed that the adult eels perish.

https://www.planetpatrol.info/eels.html

Once the adult eels give birth, they die. The young eels (elver) then return to the pond which one of their parents originally lived in. It is believed they are able to recognise the particular water chemistry of their parents pond and somehow find their way back to it. The journey can take the elvers up to 3 years and only about 1% make it through the whole life cycle. Once in their Australian pond or river, they grow and mature so they too can one day begin the process of migrating (travelling) back to the Coral Sea to breed.

 

[Quid est Veritas?]

Due to television and nature shows, I think most of us would be familiar with the story of salmon travelling upstream to breed, and then they die. We've probably seen pictures of bears having a field day at their local rapids.

In Australia and New Zealand our short finned eels do the opposite. They'll live for years in fresh water creeks and dams, and then when the time comes they'll swim out to the Coral Sea (which is a long journey for some of them), spawn at a depth of around 300 metres, and then they die. The elvers make the return trip back right back to the freshwater pond where their parents lived.

Native Fish Australia

Eels - aquaculture prospects



https://www.planetpatrol.info/eels.html

European eels do the same. They live in freshwater in Europe then go to sea to spawn and die in the Sargasso, before their offspring make their way back.

Weirdly though, the Sargasso is right next to America, but the eels travel over the Atlantic to live in European rivers. I've seen people argue that this is evidence for Atlantis, that there had been closer land on that side previously.

 

[GreekOrthodox]

How about this for a little-known fact: Canada geese are not named after one of their native lands. Never call them Canadian geese!

Can we stop calling them migratory? The only migration ours do is from one lake to another.

 

[GodLovesCats]

Can we stop calling them migratory? The only migration ours do is from one lake to another.

I never called them migratory birds.

 

[Ramon]

All polar bears are left handed.

 

[Bob Crowley]

I'll have to remember that if I shake hands with one.

 

[angelsaroundme]

In a little over one hundred years the percentage of South Koreans identifying as Christian changed from 1% to roughly 30%. There is about 20,000 churches in the country.