[Sloper]

Today I found out the Haile Selassie was, before he was crowned was known as Ras Tafari.

[Teaboy]

I learned yesterday that the beck that pops up underneath Malham is not fro. The sink in front of Malham Tarn

[shark]

Women's eyesight is better for discerning colours and men's for observing movement

[fried]

Marianne Faithfull spent 2 years living on the streets in Soho.

[Stubbs]

Dogs can't look up.

[psychomansam]

Uruguay is in the process of starting up a fully legalised but regulated cannabis system. The first country to do so. You can grow 6 plants, register to buy 40 grams a month, or create a growing co-op for personal use. They don't seem to be attempting to turn it into a cash cow.

[TobyD]

Dogs can't look up.

how do they see birds then?

[Falling Down]

My dogs used to look up all the time.. It was cute when they saw stuff in the air or up trees that confused them.  I had a German Shepard (Banya) who used to freakout at para gliders at Stanage. "A Man... In a Chair... In the air! Fuuuuu..."

[psychomansam]

This is how common bowel cancer is: there are 47.2 new cases per 100,000 people per year (crude). This equals around 40,000 new cases nationally, which means nearly 1 case per UK GP per year.
http://juniordoctorblog.wordpress.com/

[Jaspersharpe]

Glenn Hoddle is still a cunt.

[Stu Littlefair]

@edyong209: Of the 200 cases of leprosy diagnosed annually in the US, most are thought to stem from contact with armadillos http://t.co/uSWRLyfuzx

[Stubbs]

Elephants can't jump.

[ardeer]

Dogs can't look up.

my grans dog use to chase planes trying to bite them out of the air before running into the fence because she was... looking up?

[fatdoc]

To add to above... Leprosy can only be grown... Medically.. To develop a vaccine in the paws of armadillos.. ( something to do with temp and pH iirc)

[slackline]

Women's eyesight is better for discerning colours and men's for observing movement

[fatneck]

Dogs can't look up

Trout can't look down...

[moose]

To add to above... Leprosy can only be grown... Medically.. To develop a vaccine in the paws of armadillos.. ( something to do with temp and pH iirc)

another random vaccine fact, Speke, near Liverpool airport, houses the UK's strategic reserve of sterile hens! (kept in case of a future pandemic - sterile eggs are needed to grow vaccines).

A recent World Cup fact "Go eat a toffee" is a South Korean insult, rought equivalent to "get lost" or "sling yer 'ook"; thus, the returning South Korean football team being pelted with toffees on their return from Brazil.

[Oldmanmatt]

Dogs can't look up.

....... things on Google?

[Plattsy]

You're more likely to be bitten by Luis Suarez than by a shark.

[SA Chris]

Women's eyesight is better for discerning colours and men's for observing movement

Women have more cone cells so are better at discerning colour. Men have more rod cells which are more sensitive to light and dark. There is a theory that this is a genetic throwback from when men were the hunters, as the sensitivity to light made it easier to discern shape and movement in low light, so they could hunt better at dusk and dawn. Whereas women are better at discerning different Dulux shades of white. It's possibly also why more men are suceptible to colour blindness.

I leraned yesterday you need planning permission for a tree house. Thanks Lagers.

[slackline]

It's possibly also why more men are suceptible to colour blindness.

This is because its an X-linked recessive trait and being the heterogametic sex men are therefore more likely to carry only one copy of the recessive allele and be colour blind than women who would have to inherit a recessive allele from their colour blind father and have a mother who is either colour blind themselves (guaranteed colour blind off-spring, regardless of sex) or be a carrier (mother not colour blind, 50/50 chance of colour blind son as its contingent on which copy the mother passes on as the father will pass on the Y-chromosome; 50/50 chance of a colour blind daughter as the father will have to pass on his recessive version on his X-chromosome and its then dependent again on whether the mother passes on her recessive copy).  The gene in question is OPN1LW located at Xq28.

[Gallant]

Dogs can't look up.

Big Al says so...

[SA Chris]

It's possibly also why more men are suceptible to colour blindness.

This is because its an X-linked recessive trait and being the heterogametic sex men are therefore more likely to carry only one copy of the recessive allele and be colour blind than women who would have to inherit a recessive allele from their colour blind father and have a mother who is either colour blind themselves (guaranteed colour blind off-spring, regardless of sex) or be a carrier (mother not colour blind, 50/50 chance of colour blind son as its contingent on which copy the mother passes on as the father will pass on the Y-chromosome; 50/50 chance of a colour blind daughter as the father will have to pass on his recessive version on his X-chromosome and its then dependent again on whether the mother passes on her recessive copy).  The gene in question is OPN1LW located at Xq28.

I've just been reminded of something too.....

[slackline]

It's possibly also why more men are suceptible to colour blindness.

This is because its an X-linked recessive trait and being the heterogametic sex men are therefore more likely to carry only one copy of the recessive allele and be colour blind than women who would have to inherit a recessive allele from their colour blind father and have a mother who is either colour blind themselves (guaranteed colour blind off-spring, regardless of sex) or be a carrier (mother not colour blind, 50/50 chance of colour blind son as its contingent on which copy the mother passes on as the father will pass on the Y-chromosome; 50/50 chance of a colour blind daughter as the father will have to pass on his recessive version on his X-chromosome and its then dependent again on whether the mother passes on her recessive copy).  The gene in question is OPN1LW located at Xq28.

Forgot, there is a second gene very nearby OPN1MW which encodes green cone pigment (OPN1LW encodes red cone pigment).

[nik at work]

Just learnt I've been spelling informaiton wrong for many years...

(I think it's pigs that can't look up, dogs definitely can)