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Bull's Offbeat Oddities

Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 2:38 pm
by bulldawgz1003
Did you know that...

...the only bird that can fly backwards is the hummingbird?

...a practical can opener was invented in 1858, about 50 years after the can?

...we're born with 300 bones but only have 206 when we reach adulthood?

...almonds are members of the peach family?

:D

Bull's Offbeat Oddities

Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 2:42 pm
by CARLA
OK what happened to those 94 bones...???:-3

[QUOTE]...we're born with 300 bones but only have 206 when we reach adulthood?[/QUOTE]

Bull's Offbeat Oddities

Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 2:48 pm
by Rapunzel
CARLA wrote: OK what happened to those 94 bones...???:-3


They fuse together. :-2

Bull's Offbeat Oddities

Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 3:08 pm
by CARLA
Were talking 94 bones here, not just a few as you grow that fuse together.. 94 bones that's a heck of a lot of fusing going on..:-3

[QUOTE]They fuse together. [/QUOTE]