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Search of your site brings back absolutely zero (O) facts about DUCKS?!
Please remedy this A(s)S(oon)A(s)P(ossible).
You heard the man...
The commonest sign in old British pubs (ie the ones with low beams) is "Duck or Grouse".
(Edit: I have been corrected. Apparently it is "Free beer tomorrow")
The duck family is the only family of birds in which all members can stick their bills up their ass.
The bingo call of "Two Little Ducks" for 22 was originally two little swans.
Ducks frequently get temporarily frozen overnight in marshes. In Ukraine it is considered unsporting to shoot them if they cannot fly away.
The European mallard can whistle through its nostrils.
When ducks sleep with their head turned to one side, in 80% of the case it is to the right.
Approximately 1 in 900 ducks is an albino.
About 1 in 50 ducks have eyes that are different colours.
Mongolians place the head of the duck in the body cavity when cooking. This prevents the evil eye of the dead duck from bringing them bad luck. It is also the origin of the expression "A Dead Duck".
Most of these facts were from a Lancaster University pamphlet called "Duck: The question."
* A recently-unearthed, 90 million year old ancestor of the duck had a continually-growing egg tooth that may have grown to a length of 6 inches. While its official name is <I>Anatidae Xenosmilus</i>, scientists have humorously nicknamed it the "saber-toothed duck."
- Upon hearing the words "Duck ... duck ..." 82.6 percent of Minnesotans will respond with "grey duck," while only 8.3 percent will respond with "goose."
- Current global warming trends have caused automobile maker General Motors to investigate the possibility of selling amphibious vehicles, also known as "ducks," as an addition to their Hummer™ line of off-road vehicles.
The feet and bills of mallards are, as a rule, the same length.
Duck down is about 15% more insulating than goose down but duck down is more difficult to harvest and the added cost makes goose down more sensible economically.
Duck excrement is 18 times more acidic than eagle excrement.
Posted By: Fact totumThe feet and bills of mallards are, as a rule, the same length.
Way too easy to disprove... All you have to do is go look at a duck.
Posted By: nyarfdudeAll you have to do is go look at a duck.
Um -- I haven't seen a duck in weeks. I have no real prospects of seeing one soon.
Besides -- thinking back to the last time I saw a mallard I couldn't swear the bill and feet ARE different lengths. Tell me, which is longer?
I see plenty of geese. Not too many ducks. But, if it'll be a step toward world peace I'll switch that from mallard to merganser.
Posted By: Taed* A recently-unearthed, 90 million year old ancestor of the duck had a continually-growing egg tooth that may have grown to a length of 6 inches. While its official name is <i>Anatidae Xenosmilus</i>, scientists have nicknamed it the "saber-toothed duck."
Nice. Except the last quote, there, could be improved to a less 'thematic' name...
I justed edited it and stuck in the word "humorously" to make it more believable.
And the latin "Anatidae Xenosmilus" would apparently mean "dagger toothed duck".
No more submissions? Surely, that's not the best the teeming masses can do<interobang>
Stop whining and make the make the best of what you've got.
Jennifer got to it before I did -- it was posted on 16 December on the front page.
I actually have a dream of many, many posts about ducks, so keep them coming, y'all! Estaban hasn't posted in quite a while...
In their golden years, ducks suffer from arthritis.
Ducks have an unusual phenyl chemical in their fat which helps reduce heat loss.
Eider down has the best insulating qualities of any duck feather.
Duck down was used to line ice delivery vehicles in the first half of the 20th century in the USA.
Duck feathers scored 7.3 on the Stanford University 'tickleometer'. This device, built by students in the early 1980s, was trying to set a numerical objective standard for irritating and ticklish material.
Ducks bred in captivity have a different flavour to wild ones. Hence you cannot get decent wind-dried duck in Ontario since it is illegal to sell game there. (And possibly the whole of Canada)
Ducks normally stay clear of trees or other objects that can hide predators. But for some unknown reason they occasionally take a fancy to a tree and gather in numbers beneath it. In the UK this is known as a duck post. There are many such duck posts on the River Cam.
A duck post is also the name for the vertical steel rotisserie tree on which a number of ducks are dried and cooked.
30% of Americans think Duck Tape is Duct Tape.
* "Duck" is the first word of an estimated 1 in 40 English-speaking children.
"Duck" was actually my son's first word. "Uh-oh ball" was his first multi-word construct, when his ball went down the sewer drain.
-The duck came in a close third behind the bald eagle and the turkey in the vote for the national bird of the Untied States.
That is only cus the really, really older people learnt the phrase "Duck and Cover". This was a variation on "Swan Dive".
As in "Here come swan of them bombs."
Posted By: Taed* "Duck" is the first word of an estimated 1 in 40 English-speaking children.
"Duck" was actually my son's first word. "Uh-oh ball" was his first multi-word construct, when his ball went down the sewer drain.
Amazing. It was my daughter's first word, too.
Are you sure it wasn't 'dug'?
yep
My oldest niece's first word was "kat". I was so proud.
(no, not 'cat' as in feline. 'kat' as in her favorite aunt in the whole wide world.)
Whenever people ask, I say that my son's first sentence was "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny", but he didn't really understand it, he was just repeating what he heard other people saying. I find it funny in a meta-sense.
Don't worry, it's just a stage that they go through.
My daughter's first phrase was "alternation of generations."
We named her Fern.
Hehe.
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