weird and wonderful facts (or fiction?)

[Fratton sPark]

Apparently, a ducks quack does echo, or at least it does, according to Mythbusters.

 

[ninebob]

No word in the English language rhymes with orange

Door-hinge

 

[pitbull]

Blancmange

 

[Softus]

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

This is a popular myth.

Starfishes have no brains.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

Really? How about starfish?

 

[plastered]

them too I guess.

 

[hermes]

Starfishes have no brains.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

Really? How about starfish?

You need to sneak up behind them at low tide , and shout BOO. That makes them jump.

 

[Kelinik]

Don't think I'm being picky, but, "No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple. " Does "turtle" rhyme with "purple"? I can't make my mind up.

No turtle would rhyme with purtle or purple with turple!

 

[keyplayer]

Orange. Blancmange??? Doorhinge?????

Turtle. Purple????????

Eh?? What sort of bastardization of the English language is this? See here please:-

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=rhyme

 

[JohnD]

What rhymes with "meringue?" or "labia?"

 

[keyplayer]

Harangue?
Arabia?

 

[JohnD]

You're right.

 

[2scoops0406]

Purple nurple !

 

[ninebob]

What rhymes with "meringue?" or "labia?"

A Skoda Fabia?

 

[Thermo]

70% of all facts and statistics are made up

 

[JohnD]

70% of all facts and statistics are made up

don't be ridiculous, it's 82.75%