Real Facts!!!

Brian Jones

Brian Jones

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Well, this forum needs a little levity lately, so...

Ya know, I am excited because drinking Snapple is increasing my encyclopaedic knowledge of nature and the outdoors! Thank you Snapple, for making me more knowledgeable about the wilderness! Inside the caps of the bottles, I have found gems like these:

Real Fact #133:
Honeybees navigate by using the sun as a compass.

Real Fact #129:
Mosquitos have 47 teeth.

Real Fact #120:
The only continent without native reptiles or snakes is Antarctica.

Real Fact #182:
A rainbow can only be seen in the morning or late afternoon.

Now, the sources for these facts are not revealed. Perhaps they got them from anonymous postings in forums like ours?

But hey, it's from Snapple, so it MUST ALL BE TRUE!

Add your Snapple Real Facts to this thread... :D :D :D :D :D :D
 
I'm not sure about their sources, either, but I occasionally get the one that a duck's quack does not echo... and it most certainly does.

Edited to add: and if you look up the mosquito thing, you'll discover that there's no credibility to the 47 teeth claim. Mosquitos have four slicing parts to their proboscis, but no teeth, per se.
 
Watchful said:
Edited to add: and if you look up the mosquito thing, you'll discover that there's no credibility to the 47 teeth claim. Mosquitos have four slicing parts to their proboscis, but no teeth, per se.
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Obviously, you've never been in Texas. :D
 
Thomas Linton said:
Obviously, you've never been in Texas. :D
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Sure have. And the mosquitos there are nothing once you've been to the North Woods. And everyone knows the Alaskan ones will steal livestock.
 
Differential features of Aedes mosquitoes (carriers of West Nile): "at least 10 [pecten] teeth on each side of median tooth." N.J. Dept of Health.

Other mosquitoes have "four sets of serrated teeth."

Maybe they are "teeth" in the sense of teeth on a saw - serrations. The Spydie of insects. They probably don't get a dime under the pillow if they lose one.
 
Watchful said:
Sure have. And the mosquitos there are nothing once you've been to the North Woods. And everyone knows the Alaskan ones will steal livestock.
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Shoot.... those little piddly bugs up north ain't nuthin' to the bigguns we had in Mississippi. THOSE skeeters would stand flat-footed and cross breed with a Turkey.
 
Rainmaker870 said:
Shoot.... those little piddly bugs up north ain't nuthin' to the bigguns we had in Mississippi. THOSE skeeters would stand flat-footed and cross breed with a Turkey.
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Guess you never heard of the American Buzz Bomb. Towards the end of WWII, they were training Texas Skeeters to drop 250 lbs bombs on Japan - or 10 frozen turkies in the anti-personnel configuration. :p
 
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Thomas Linton said:
Guess you never heard of the American Buzz Bomb. Towards the end of WWII, they were training Texas Skeeters to drop 250 lbs bombs on Japan - or 10 frozen turkies in the anti-personnel configuration. :p
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Damn... can't top that one. ;)
 
Thomas Linton said:
--or 10 frozen turkies in the anti-personnel configuration. :p
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Those frozen beaks are bunker-busters -- can penetrate up to 50 meters, so I'm told (not by Snapple either).
 
Brian Jones said:
Those frozen beaks are bunker-busters -- can penetrate up to 50 meters, so I'm told (not by Snapple either).
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Nah. If they're frozen rock-hard, they shatter on impact into thousands of deadly shards. Just the thing for infantry in the open. Sorta' like Snapple bottles.
 
Thomas Linton said:
Nah. If they're frozen rock-hard, they shatter on impact into thousands of deadly shards. Just the thing for infantry in the open. Sorta' like Snapple bottles.
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:D :D :D :D
 
Brian Jones said:
Those frozen beaks are bunker-busters -- can penetrate up to 50 meters, so I'm told (not by Snapple either).
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You gentlemen are now advised to cease and desist this thread. If it goes any further, I'll have to report you to the authorities. You are on the edge of discussing classified military information.

You've been warned. :eek: :mad: :eek:
 
That's nuthin'... here in the Yukon we use 'em to drill shallow wells. You just stake out a tourist when they first arrive and are still nice and pale, to show up well against the tundra. A skeeter will dive bomb the hapless target and drive its beak right through the tourist deep into the soil ('less you hit permafrost, of course). Then you simply chainsaw off its beak, heave the tourist off the stob, attach a pump and you're in bizness. :D
 
3 out of four of those are right,

Honeybees do use the sun as a compass, and are able to even detect the sun's posistion under clouds. but its rather extensive.......here's part of the website for a Dr. I work under sometimes:
http://www.cals.ncsu.edu:8050/entomology/apiculture/ go to instruction in the right top corner, and then to honey bee dance language...bow chica wow wow

The skeeters do have serrations, but they aren't "teeth" with roots, when they bury into your skin, they saw into your skin, use their saliva as an anticoagulant (which your body is allergic to, ie itch) they have a tube inside these serrations which they use to lap the stuff up with. There are different serration numbers for different mosquitos, some mosquitos have to be keyed out by these serrations, which sucks...aha.
Biting flies just scissor back and forth and bury their mouthparts into your skin like a kid trying to get soup without a spoon.

woof!
 
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