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When Pepsi entered the market in China their slogan 'Come alive with the Pepsi generation'
appeared in the Chinese translation as 'Pepsi makes your ancestors come back from the
grave'

The car Mitsubishi Starion, was intended to be called "Stallion" to accompany the Mitsubishi Colt, but there were some pronunciation and translation issues with the Japanese.

You have to sneak up on a wild boar when hunting. If it sees you, it will emit all kinds of fear, which makes the meat bitter.

There are wild boars in Florida? (Other than those in the state legislature, that is.)

There are now 850lbs of moon rock on Earth.

A Polar Bears fur is not white, it is clear and can absorb heat, their skin is black to aid heat retention.

Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.
(Not much use when they come out to hunt at night it has to be said,but nice for them to sit in a tree during the day and look at the sky)

The word 'latchstring' has 6 consecutive consonants in it

I don't really like being referred to as a "tit mouse".


and leatherbacked turtles love to eat jellyfish.

The dinosaur referred to as Velociraptor in the movie Jurassic Park is not, in fact, a Velociraptor at all - it's far too large (possibly because the similar predator Deinonychus was used as a model for the movie's #2 villains). Genuine Velociraptor specimens are actually only slightly larger than a chicken, being about 2 feet high at the shoulder. Also, the dinosaurs in the movie have an incorrect forelimb arrangement and are covered in scales, when most fossil evidence points to them having feathers instead. Plus, they almost certainly were not the cunning, devious creatures depicted in the film, as their brains were far too small.

With that being said: shortly after the film's release, and the paeleontological uproar about the laissez-faire attitude to accuracy taken by Spielberg and his cronies, a dinosaur that was structurally very similar to the movie's Velociraptor in both size and body construction was discovered in Utah. It was then named Utahraptor.

Tuesday is spelled T-U-E-S-D-A-Y.

my feet smell funny

There's nothing funny about that smell, tinky.