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As someone who dreams A LOT (and have books and books of my dreams written down!) I find this fascinating.

The people we "see" in our dreams are people we've met or seen, however fleetingly, in real life. Our brain cannot make up "new" faces. It can, however, amalgamate specific features we've noticed (big noses, flappy ears etc!) and can add those to people we've seen.

Really?!?
That's amazing!

A human could swim through the veins of a blue whale.

MissAdventure

Penguins can shoot poo balls!

Would love to be able to direct one of those cheeky chappies to fire a few rounds off when someone is holding me up......

Two Hawaiian Princes introduced surfing to Britain in the late 1800s.

Some fish will shoot jets of water at you 😃

Penguins can shoot poo balls!

Love this thread. So interesting and informative and a bit off the wall too.

SeaWoozle

Wooly mammoths were still mooching around when the pyramids were being built.

Wow!! That is an amazing fact SeaWoozle

Cars in Australia don’t have fog lights.
They use their hazards instead.

Wooly mammoths were still mooching around when the pyramids were being built.

Callistemon21

If you drive straight up from Wales, do you still have to stick to the 20mph limit?

NEVER 😁

It took DH a bit longer. Then what happened? He ended up in the Argy Bargy Bar 😯

She is related to Tristram Hunt, ex-MP and Peter Jay.

No, he is not related even if that report says he is.

Calli 🤣

Cousin to VB then it seems …. not nephew.

“ Until her retirement from open politics, Virginia Bottomley, had been the Conservative MP for South West Surrey. In 2005, her cousin Jeremy Hunt inherited her constituency (not quite Queen's Crawley) and stepped into her shoes becoming the new MP. Virginia was then ennobled and became Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone. She now lobbies on behalf of the private health sector and was a director of BUPA between 2007-2013.”

I meant before his father became an Admiral, not DH 😁

Urmstongran

northernvoicesmag.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-secret-of-hunts-success-hunt.html

It still not true though!

Yes, his father was an Admiral. DH served with him at one time in the 1960s before he was an Admiral.

northernvoicesmag.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-secret-of-hunts-success-hunt.html

Florence Nightingale was born in Italy - that's why she was called Florence!

Even more useless information:

However, Virginia Bottomley is related to Peter Jay, son-in-law of James Callaghan and Tristram Hunt, former Labur MP who are both her cousins.

HousePlantQueen

Urmstongran

Jeremy Hunt is the nephew of Virginia Bottomley.

Ooh, and of Peter Bottomley too presumably?

I think that is one of those stories without foundation which has gained momentum until everyone thinks it's true.

Yes, I misspelt that 🙄

More often spelt mews. They were places where hawks were "mewed up" (confined in cages) when they were moulting and vulnerable. In London, stables for the royal horses were built on what had previously been the Mews for royal hawks and which continued to be called the Royal Mews. This led to all similar horse stables in back lanes behind houses being called mews. They still are, though most are now converted into bijou residences.

a muse is also somewhere that hawks are kept