Thread: Trivia and other useless but interesting items

Originally Posted by V8Ian

English fail James, that was Dotty McKellar.

Seems you've been fibbing about your age, as she was only Dotty to her friends.

She knew when she was in trouble when her Mum called her Dorothy.

"A celebrity gossip YouTuber turned MP will become Japan's first lawmaker to be kicked out of parliament without ever actually entering it.


Yoshikazu Higa****ani was expelled on Tuesday by his Senate colleagues for never coming to work.


He has not attended a single day of parliament sessions since being elected to office seven months ago.


The parliament's discipline committee stripped him of his status because of the continued absence.



"

The name might have been a hint- It blew up for him Explosive Gas perhaps

Originally Posted by V8Ian

She knew when she was in trouble when her Mum called her Dorothy.

Second fail: Dorothea.

Speaking of trivia and oubii - also a common fail - few people can correctly quote the first line or verse.
It's not "I love a sunburnt country".

Originally Posted by Redtail

Second fail: Dorothea.

Speaking of trivia and oubii - also a common fail - few people can correctly quote the first line or verse.
It's not "I love a sunburnt country".

She was bloody welcome to it an' all.



No no no Mr Bee it wasn't that one either.

"Police in Ohio fatally shot a zebra after it bit its owner on the arm and continued to act aggressively toward officers, authorities said.



Officers arrived to the man's home in Circleville, Ohio, on Sunday after he called and reported that "his arm had been bitten off by a zebra".



They found the man lying on the ground in a field, arm injured but still attached, according to officials.



Officers then helped the man onto an ambulance and sent him to a hospital.



An officer attempted to block the zebra from getting to the man by parking his police cruiser in between the injured man and the angry animal - but the zebra charged at his driver's side door, according to a Pickaway County Sheriff's Office report obtained by the BBC.



The officer said he then used his air horn and sirens to try to stave off the zebra and buy himself some time to help the injured man - measures that only worked temporarily.




As police were taking the man to an ambulance, the zebra came back. The family who owned the property told police they could shoot the zebra should he draw nearer, an affiliate from BBC's US media partner, CBS, reports



Bodycam footage released by the sheriff's office shows the zebra charging toward deputies before one fires a shotgun and kills it, WBNS reports.



The cause for the zebra's behaviour remains unclear, but authorities said it may have been attempting to protect female zebras in the same field.


The injured man was sent to a hospital where officials say he is expected to recover.



Zebras are not categorised as wild and dangerous animals by the Ohio Department of Agriculture, enabling them to be owned as pets.



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A few notes from above. They have Zebras as pets?
BBC reports "Zebras also have very different temperaments to horses. They're far more aggressive and a lot more dangerous. Zebras have been known to kick each other to death, they will viciously bite any human that comes too close, and there are even many accounts of zebras killing lions."

Not dangerous unless grumpy perhaps

Run Stripes run

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

"Police in Ohio fatally shot a zebra after it bit its owner on the arm and continued to act aggressively toward officers, authorities said.



Officers arrived to the man's home in Circleville, Ohio, on Sunday after he called and reported that "his arm had been bitten off by a zebra".



They found the man lying on the ground in a field, arm injured but still attached, according to officials.



Officers then helped the man onto an ambulance and sent him to a hospital.



An officer attempted to block the zebra from getting to the man by parking his police cruiser in between the injured man and the angry animal - but the zebra charged at his driver's side door, according to a Pickaway County Sheriff's Office report obtained by the BBC.



The officer said he then used his air horn and sirens to try to stave off the zebra and buy himself some time to help the injured man - measures that only worked temporarily.




As police were taking the man to an ambulance, the zebra came back. The family who owned the property told police they could shoot the zebra should he draw nearer, an affiliate from BBC's US media partner, CBS, reports



Bodycam footage released by the sheriff's office shows the zebra charging toward deputies before one fires a shotgun and kills it, WBNS reports.



The cause for the zebra's behaviour remains unclear, but authorities said it may have been attempting to protect female zebras in the same field.


The injured man was sent to a hospital where officials say he is expected to recover.



Zebras are not categorised as wild and dangerous animals by the Ohio Department of Agriculture, enabling them to be owned as pets.



"

A few notes from above. They have Zebras as pets?
BBC reports "Zebras also have very different temperaments to horses. They're far more aggressive and a lot more dangerous. Zebras have been known to kick each other to death, they will viciously bite any human that comes too close, and there are even many accounts of zebras killing lions."

Not dangerous unless grumpy perhaps

Run Stripes run

And why have zebras evolved to have black and white stripes?

Originally Posted by 350RRC

And why have zebras evolved to have black and white stripes?

To confuse the focus of predators.