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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.

A knot of toads
A confusion of weasels
A shrewdness of apes
A caravan of camels
A bouquet of pheasants
A bloat of hippopotami
A business of ferrets
A skulk of foxes
A sloth of bears
A clowder, or pounce, of cats
A gang of elk
A streak of tigers
A tower of giraffes
A kaleidoscope of butterflies
A smack of jellyfish
A leap of leopards
An army of caterpillars
A prickle of porcupines
A romp of otters
A deceit of lapwings
A bale of turtles
A stand of flamingos
An ostentation of peacocks
A murder of crows
An intrusion of cockroaches
A crash of rhinoceroses

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ONLY A WEE BIT OF WEE!!!!

February 21st 2012 00:01

Aside from the fact that people during the Middle Ages tended to bathe rather infrequently, in fact Summer being the only real bathing time, did you realise that to assist with their bathing needs, they were also washing themselves with urine?

In fact a little bit of wee went a long way in those days. It was mixed into the soap that they used during bathing, and it was also used as a washing detergent for their clothing. White clothing in particular was used with urine in order to keep it white.
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A COATHANGER For Your SKIN!

February 3rd 2011 03:43

* Bones are made from living tissue that not only shape and support the body and protect some organs, but they also act as storage sites for minerals.

There are 206 bones in the adult human body:-
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A Very TECHY Christmas!!!

December 20th 2010 22:10

Trying to find something special for that very techy person in your life this Christmas??? How about these ideas for inspiration.

A Gingerbread CPU from Mediatinker.
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Look Out Facebookers - Meet Openbook!

May 19th 2010 23:48

With the growing concerns involving Facebook and its ever changing privacy settings, a few software developers have now engineered a website that allows users to trawl through the status updates of anyone who does not have the correct privacy settings to prevent it.

Named Openbook, the ultimate aim of the site is to further expose the problems with Facebook and its privacy settings to the general public, and show people just how easy it is to access this type of information about complete strangers. The site works as a search engine so it is easy to search terms such as "don't tell anyone" or "I hate my boss", and searches can also be narrowed down by gender.
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SpiderGoat, SpiderGoat!!

May 18th 2010 12:51

Ok, so maybe Matt Groening does have something to answer for with 'Spider Pig'.... the cockamamy idea of crossing a spider with a goat!

Yes, you heard right, scientists have now bred a goat that when milked produces spider silk.
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Can You REALLY Hear The SEA In A SEASHELL???

February 19th 2010 22:00

We've all done it at one point of another, held a seashell to our ear to see if, as the old wives tale goes, we really can hear the ocean.

But what is it we are really hearing?
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A Few Little Known Body Facts

April 10th 2009 10:53

A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it is been decapitated.

About 10,000,000 people have the same birthday as you.
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The Average Human Body CONTAINS ENOUGH.......

March 23rd 2009 11:03

The average human body contains enough:

Sulfur to kill all the fleas on an average dog.
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What's YOUR BLOOD-TYPE???

March 12th 2009 10:37

The human body contains one of four main blood types: A, B, AB and O.

Each blood-type also has an accompanying Rhesus or Rh factor of either positive or negative.
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The Astounding Cellular Makeup of the Human Body!!!

February 27th 2009 10:33

The human body is complex structure of cells, so many cells in fact that it would be impossible to count them all. Scientists estimate that there are around 75 trillion cells in the human body with an additional 750 trillion bacteria cells living in the human gut.

10% of your bodyweight consists of bacteria.
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Inhererited Characteristics/Traits AKA - CAN YOU ROLL YOUR TONGUE????

January 8th 2009 10:59

You may have a vague recollection of coming across this in high school science - particularly if you did biology and genetics.

There is a set of traits that we all as human beings have one or the other of. These are known as inherited traits or characteristics. Depending on which traits your parents have determines your outcome, but it is a 50/50 split as to whether you inherit a particular trait or not..
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Periodic Table Video Experiments Online

September 21st 2008 08:08

Ever struggled to remember the elements of the periodic table and how they perform?

Well in todays YouTube age, scientists at Nottingham University have put together a periodic table of video links. Each element that you click on takes you to an experiment done using the element selected.
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The TALE of the Computer Mouse - Or Should That Be TAIL???

September 17th 2008 09:26

This year the humble and much overlooked computer mouse turned 45 years old.

Douglas Engelbart at the Stanford Research Institute invented the first mouse in 1963. Looking more like a wooden box with a cord hanging out more than anything else, (pictured) the mouse was so named because it did look like it had the tail of a mouse running out of it.

The 1st computer mouse.

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