- Giraffes are 30 times more likely to get hit by lightning than people. True, there are only five well-documented fatal lightning strikes on giraffes between 1996 and 2010. But due to the population of the species being just 140,000 during this time, it makes for about 0.003 lightning deaths per thousand giraffes each year. This is 30 times the equivalent fatality rate for humans.
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- Giraffes are 30 times more likely to get hit by lightning than people. True, there are only five well-documented fatal lightning strikes on giraffes between 1996 and 2010. But due to the population of the species being just 140,000 during this time, it makes for about 0.003 lightning deaths per thousand giraffes each year. This is 30 times the equivalent fatality rate for humans.
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Janet Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Samuel L Jackson and Tracey Chapman are all cousins.
I’m staggered I only just found that out!
I’m staggered I only just found that out!
mancity2012_eamo
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Am I missing something or does that not make the rest of the Jacksons cousins with them too.Janet Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Samuel L Jackson and Tracey Chapman are all cousins.
I’m staggered I only just found that out!
meltonblue
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Am I missing something or does that not make the rest of the Jacksons cousins with them too.
Yes, I just couldn’t be bothered to type that out! The reason I put Janet was it was from an interview she did recently.
Bill Walker
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That arrow is daft, you wouldn't head north in November or December it's very hot up there in summer, in fact the top end (one third) is tropical so hot all the time.There’s a few cul de sacs off it too.
It also indicates that you start and go anti-clockwise. Is it a one way system?
- Hippos can’t swim. Hippos really do have big bones, so big and dense, in fact, that they’re barely buoyant at all. They don’t swim and instead perform a slow-motion gallop on the riverbed or on the sea floor. In fact, hippos can even sleep underwater, thanks to a built-in reflex that allows them to bob up, take a breath, and sink back down without waking.
Bill Walker
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Good news for Queenslanders, the government did a six-month trial where all fares for buses trams trains and ferries were reduced to 50 cents or 25 pence, they just announced that it was such a success and eased traffic on the roads that they are now making it permanent.
Good news for Queenslanders, the government did a six-month trial where all fares for buses trams trains and ferries were reduced to 50 cents or 25 pence, they just announced that it was such a success and eased traffic on the roads that they are now making it permanent.
It great that but our government be looking at the amount of money they will lose if people scraped the car and went on public transport for 50p!
Tuearts right boot
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Well it's the worlds biggest roundabout then.But you just finish up back where you started. A highway should go somewhere different.