Random stuff you've learned.

[Racing roadkill]

You can get a cow to walk up the stairs, they can't walk down again though ( the joints in their legs are all wrong). You would also have some explaining to do to the missus (presumably).

 

[Racing roadkill]

White Rhinos are not called that 'cos they are white. It's 'cos they have a wide flat top lip.

 

[Racing roadkill]

You can't sneeze with your eyes open.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Alsatians are the only dog that can do the backstroke.

 

[Drago]

Gorillas can not swim.

 

[martint235]

Sultanas, raisins and currants are all types of dried grape.

Isn't a currant just a dried currant?

 

[andyfraser]

A duck's quack doesn't echo.

That's either a tongue in cheek references to the Sky TV show or this: http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/duckecho.asp.

 

[roadrash]

the fluff in your belly button isnt the same colour as the shirt you had on

 

[steve50]

Isn't a currant just a dried currant?

http://britishfood.about.com/od/faq/ss/The-Difference-between-Raisins-Sultanas-and-Currants.htm

 

[Cuchilo]

I used that one on my kids as a throwaway dad line. I didn't know youngest son took it in hook line and sinker. It was about 6 months later he was up in his room and shouted to our dog in the garden, he looked up and son 2 was so amazed he came and told me straight away we had a mutant dog.

Chickens cant look up , they have to tilt their head to the side .

 

[wheresthetorch]

That's either a tongue in cheek references to the Sky TV show or this: http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/duckecho.asp.

Fai enough. Seems it was seriously researched though!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3086890.stm

 

[machew]

Eating mince pies on a Christmas day is illegal in the uk ..

All of Cromwell’s laws were repealed after the end of the Interregnum, so not true since sometime around 1660.

 

[machew]

Use any slide upon ice or snow (Town Police Clauses Act 1847)

 

[DaveReading]

Sultanas, raisins and currants are all types of dried grape.

No they aren't, they're dead flies:

 

[steve50]

dead fly pie, remember it well