London 2012 Olympics security update:

The safety of the 2012 Olympics is put in jeopardy when Betty Taylor from the top floor flat of Bow Quarter unplugs the surface-to-air missile stationed on the roof of her building so she can do the ironing.

The longest crocodile ever recorded was measured at a little over six metres.

Blog roll.

Andrex have announced that they are about to market bamboo toilet paper.

Most people have more than the average number of legs.

With some people having only one, or no legs at all, anyone with two legs has more than the average number of legs.

Owls are the only birds that can see the colour blue.

As the expression goes, never let the truth stand in the way of a good fact. And this is a good fact, although sadly an internet myth that began life as an email chain letter, forwarded to gullible friends, who in turn forwarded it to their gullible friends, who in turn…

In reality, not only can birds see blue, many have better colour vision than us humans. Owls, on the other hand, being nocturnal, are not so good at colour detection.

According to a number of websites, it is against the law in Switzerland to mow your front lawn whilst dressed as Elvis Presley. Personally, I would treat this fact with a suspicious mind.

More people are killed each year by bees than snakes.

Sheer madness!

In a country with almost 10 times the number of sheep as people, the New Zealand Farmers Federation has begun a campaign to make sheep shearing an Olympic event.

Have you ever wondered how many bacteria can fit inside a garden pea?

Counting the number of bacteria that live on one square inch of the human body’s skin is akin to attempting to calculate the number of grains of sand in the Sahara desert. Estimates put the number of bacteria per square inch as somewhere between 30 and 50 million.

The average human body is estimated to be covered by 20 square feet, or 2 square metres, of skin, which puts the total skin bacteria count living on a single human being at between 86.4 and 144 billion.

Despite the greatness of number, according to Theodor Rosebury in his book, Life on Man, all of the bacteria found on the surface of the skin of one human being would fit into a volume the size of a garden pea.

About plucking time.

 

In line with an EU-wide ban on cages smaller than a sheet of A4 paper, Liberty, the UK’s last remaining battery hen, has today been given a new, more spacious home, in Devon.