Really TRUE odd factoids

[Electric_Andy]

I thought hippos killed more people than any other animals bar mosquitos.

Yeah I think that's right in terms of physical attacks. I'm just glad that Komodo Dragons don't roam Europe in their thousands, else we'd all be in trouble. They are huge, fast and have lethal toxins and bacteria in their mouth/teeth, and tend to bite an animal then follow it around until it dies of sepsis

 

[kynikos]

Komodo dragons do not deliberately allow the prey to escape with fatal injuries but try to kill prey outright using a combination of lacerating damage and blood loss. They have been recorded as killing wild pigs within seconds and observations of Komodo dragons tracking prey for long distances are likely misinterpreted cases of prey escaping an attack before succumbing to infection.

 

[spen666]

I thought hippies killed more people than any other animals bar mosquitos.

FTFY

 

[Electric_Andy]

Komodo dragons do not deliberately allow the prey to escape with fatal injuries but try to kill prey outright using a combination of lacerating damage and blood loss. They have been recorded as killing wild pigs within seconds and observations of Komodo dragons tracking prey for long distances are likely misinterpreted cases of prey escaping an attack before succumbing to infection.

Not on the documentary I watched. It bit a water buffalo (or large bovine type thing) and just followed it around, not wanting to risk a fatal fight with its hooves and horns, and not wanting to waste energy on a fight, so just waited until it died

 

[T4tomo]

Komodo Dragons are easily avoided...

 

[Andy in Germany]

Komodo Dragons are easily avoided...

I have certainly found the strategy of being in Germany to be very effective.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

I thought hippos killed more people than any other animals bar mosquitos.

Bar mosquitos are the worst. Drinking all day then getting into fights.

 

[classic33]

 

[Dave7]

Sharks have no bones at all. Thier entire skeleton is made up of flexible cartlilage similar to that in the tip of your nose.

 

[kynikos]

Sharks have no bones at all. Thier entire skeleton is made up of flexible cartlilage similar to that in the tip of your nose.

Is that why they have such an amazing sense of smell?

 

[T4tomo]

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that seems a lot, but we did have a cyclechatter who went that way, so...

 

[T4tomo]

I have certainly found the strategy of being in Germany to be very effective.

Absolutely! Essentially avoid a couple of Indonesian islands and you're safe

 

[PeteXXX]

The shape of a Pringle is a hyperbolic paraboloid.

 

[classic33]

In 1965, pilot John Young thought he might get hungry as he spent six hours orbiting the earth. When Young took out his sandwich, though, things didn’t go well. In zero gravity, it started to crumble, forcing him to quickly gather all the pieces before they could damage the spacecraft.

 

[DaveReading]

The shape of a Pringle is a hyperbolic paraboloid.

or a bicycle wheel ...