Read + Write + Report
Home | Start a blog | About Orble | FAQ | Blogs | Writers | Paid | My Orble | Login
 
Weird and wonderful facts and trivia, useless information, gadgets, idiots, criminals, and heaps of humour - you name it, we've got it!

FIREFOX USERS TAKE NOTE: You may be missing half of the page for some strange reason, so you may want to try another browser to view the site accurately.

Choose categories or enter a term into the search box on the LEFT hand side of the page for other related posts.
Custom Search

More





A LITTLE BIRDY TOLD ME....

April 14th 2013 04:48
....that there is some very odd information out there about birds. For instance, did you know that there was a professional paper written by 2 university academics that was designed to calculate the amount of internal pressure used by a penguin in expelling it's own poo?!!

Well Victor Breno Meyer-Rochow of the International University of Bremen, alongside Jozsef Gal of Lorand Eotvos University, Hungary, used basic physics to calculate the pressure that builds up inside a penguin.

The Power of Penguins


Another study performed by Stockholm University colleagues involved determining the attractiveness of humans to chickens!

But for some little know but basic bird facts you can always try these for size:

* The only known poisonous bird in the world is the hooded pitohui of Papua, New Guinea.

* An ostrich's eye is larger than its brain.

* An ostrich egg needs to be boiled for 2 hours to get a hard-boiled egg.

* The most yolks ever found in a single chicken's egg is nine.

* The American turkey vulture helps human engineers detect cracked or broken underground fuel pipes. The leaking fuel smells like vulture food, and so clusters of birds lead the way to where the lines need fixing.

15
Vote
   


THE DEFINITION OF A TEENAGER!!!

February 15th 2013 00:43
A teenager is.....
Apple iPhone case

Someone who can pick out the voice of a friend from three blocks away, but can't hear his mother calling from the next room.
[ Click here to read more ]
16
Vote
   


Keep calm and whatever
A recent poll has listed the most annoying words or phrases that people use everyday.

'Whatever' - at 32% was considered the most annoying word. It has topped the annoying words list now for 4 years in a row.

[ Click here to read more ]
16
Vote
   


Cat Versus Computer

October 31st 2012 23:46
Cat asleep on computer keyboard
There are quite a few weird and wacky inventions out there, but what to make of this one???

Ever had issues with your cat walking on your computer keyboard and deleting data, stuffing up your computer, or sending emails? Well in Tucson, Arizona there is a man by the name of Chris Niswander who can help you out with your computer versus cat dilemmas.

[ Click here to read more ]
27
Vote
   


COLLECTIVELY FUNNY!!!

October 21st 2012 23:43
kaleidoscope of butterflies free image

I'm assuming here that most of us learned about collective nouns in school, eg. a herd of buffalo, a flock of birds etc, generally speaking, the more 'normal' ones, but here is a short list of some of the more uncommonly known ones.

[ Click here to read more ]
26
Vote
   


50 SHADES of REPETITION!!!

October 15th 2012 00:10
50 Shades of Grey ecard
Anyone who has read the recent best-seller "Fifty Shades of Grey" will understand what mean about how bad the actual writing of the book is! (PLEASE, can somebody buy this woman a THESAURUS for Christmas!)

For those of you who have not ventured there.... don't! If you must know, I was only subjected to it for professional purposes.)

[ Click here to read more ]
26
Vote
   


TWO FAIRLY ODD ROMAN EMPERORS!

September 23rd 2012 23:44
Roman emperor bust Heliogabalus
We've all heard stories about at least some Roman emperors such as Caesar and Nero, but have you ever heard about some of the more wacky Roman emperors such as Honorius or Heliogabalus???

Emperor Honorius was completely obsessed with chickens, in particular, his favourite chicken, whose name was 'Rome'.

[ Click here to read more ]
8
Vote
   


While going through my emails of old, I came across this oldie but goodie from the time that Manchester UK were bidding for the 2004 Olympic Games.

Manchester Town Hall

[ Click here to read more ]
18
Vote
   


London 2012 Quotes from TV Hosts!

August 6th 2012 01:18
London 2012 Olympic Logo clear
"Olympics can inspire American kids to get active. Or it can inspire American kids to sit on the couch and watch the Olympics." – Conan O'Brien

"Even though the Olympics take place during Ramadan, some Muslim athletes said they will not fast during games. Then, after sampling the British food, they said, on second thought, fasting sounds good." – Conan O'Brien
[ Click here to read more ]
28
Vote
   


UNCOMMON OLYMPIC FACTS

June 7th 2012 04:54
Olympic Games Rings Flag
1. The colours of the Olympic rings were chosen on the basis that every country in the world has at least one of the colours in its national flag.

2. Ghandi worked as a newspaper reporter during 1932 covering the L.A. Olympics.

[ Click here to read more ]
26
Vote
   


More Posts
1 Posts
1 Posts
1 Posts
693 Posts dating from April 2006
Email Subscription
Receive e-mail notifications of new posts on this blog:
Moderated by MelissaA
Copyright © 2012 On Topic Media PTY LTD. All Rights Reserved. Design by Vimu.com.
On Topic Media ZPages: Sydney |  Melbourne |  Brisbane |  London |  Birmingham |  Leeds     [ Advertise ] [ Contact Us ] [ Privacy Policy ]