Yet more pointless facts

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  1. SuperTyke

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    Goats' pupils are rectangles
    You can calculate the exact temperature (down to the degree) by counting how often a cricket chirps and then doing a bit of maths.
    Anthony Hopkins didn't blink even once in Silence of the Lambs.
    The earth travels roughly 1.5million miles every day (on its orbit around the sun)
    Ye (as in ye olde) is and always has been pronounced the not yee.

    I fully expect someone to prove all of these as false. Hi Jay
     
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    Brilliant. Hemsworth Tyke-esque!
     
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    well ar daren't post owt ar get slapped straight away.
     
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    [video=youtube;fd7e1fXYIuM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd7e1fXYIuM[/video]

    42 seconds.
     
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  5. SuperTyke

    SuperTyke Well-Known Member

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    Well the absolute Barstewards, i've been lied to again.
     
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    Just mentioned this on QI, it's the Snowy Tree Cricket.

    It's called Dolbear's Law

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolbear's_Law
     
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    Horses, cows and deer have horizontal (rectangles?) pupils too. Creates extra periphery vision to aid movement and immediate navigation, yer pillock. Did your school not stretch to a trip to Cannon Hall farm?
     
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