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moreluck
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I'm still pissed about the Pluto diss!!Venus is the hottest known planet in our galaxy - not Mercury - due to the
carbon dioxide gases that trap heat from exiting its atmosphere. Mercury is closer to the sun, but Venus is 863 degrees. OUCH!!!!
cachsux
Wah
Especially multiple ones!
Catatonic
Nine Lives
Me too and then I would go to sleep.
menotyou
bella amicizia
Ya, know. I am the queen of that!
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
Well-Known Member
All ants in a colony are female. Male ants survive only long enough to mate.
On the plus side they don't have to lay there wondering how long before they can get dressed and go home.
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All ants in a colony are female. Male ants survive only long enough to mate.
That's just long enough; Don't have to go to work the next day!
moreluck
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ABOUT THAT TURKEY...
There are many reasons given being the name 'Turkey' for the particular bird. While some think it simply because it produces the sound of 'turk, turk…', others trace it back to the Native American version of the name of the bird, which was 'Firkee'. Some others connect the origin of the word to Christopher Columbus, who mistook America for India and 'turkey' for a type of peacock. Thus, he tried to name the word based on the Tamil translation of peacock, which he knew was 'Tuka'. Though, it was discovered later that the bird actually belonged to the pheasant family, people kept using the name for the bird.
While there was some conflict over 'turkey' and 'bald eagle' for being the National Bird of America. Benjamin Franklin voted out 'bald eagle' for being cowardly.
Though people prefer the meat of older male turkeys for they find younger tom turkeys to be too stringy, they prefer younger female turkeys for older female ones have tougher meat.
People do name turkeys according to their age - Turkeys less than sixteen weeks old are called 'fryers' while those between five to seven months of age are called 'young roasters'.
Turkey is the only native poultry breed of the Western Hemisphere.
Turkeys have great hearing skills but no ears.
Turkeys can see in colors, have excellent visual acuity and their field of vision spans across about 270 degrees.
Turkeys have poor sense of smell but great sense of taste.
Wild turkeys can fly at a speed of as much as 55 miles per hour over short distances and are good runners with a speed of about 25 miles per hour.
Turkeys are so sensitive that they can drown by looking up while it is raining and can have heart attacks due to sudden shocks.
There are many reasons given being the name 'Turkey' for the particular bird. While some think it simply because it produces the sound of 'turk, turk…', others trace it back to the Native American version of the name of the bird, which was 'Firkee'. Some others connect the origin of the word to Christopher Columbus, who mistook America for India and 'turkey' for a type of peacock. Thus, he tried to name the word based on the Tamil translation of peacock, which he knew was 'Tuka'. Though, it was discovered later that the bird actually belonged to the pheasant family, people kept using the name for the bird.
While there was some conflict over 'turkey' and 'bald eagle' for being the National Bird of America. Benjamin Franklin voted out 'bald eagle' for being cowardly.
Though people prefer the meat of older male turkeys for they find younger tom turkeys to be too stringy, they prefer younger female turkeys for older female ones have tougher meat.
People do name turkeys according to their age - Turkeys less than sixteen weeks old are called 'fryers' while those between five to seven months of age are called 'young roasters'.
Turkey is the only native poultry breed of the Western Hemisphere.
Turkeys have great hearing skills but no ears.
Turkeys can see in colors, have excellent visual acuity and their field of vision spans across about 270 degrees.
Turkeys have poor sense of smell but great sense of taste.
Wild turkeys can fly at a speed of as much as 55 miles per hour over short distances and are good runners with a speed of about 25 miles per hour.
Turkeys are so sensitive that they can drown by looking up while it is raining and can have heart attacks due to sudden shocks.
dilligaf
IN VINO VERITAS
DS
Fenderbender
All the planets in our solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus. It is the only planet that rotates clockwise
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DS
Fenderbender
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menotyou
bella amicizia
So, you are saying cuddling is bad?
