User:ZayZayEM/DYK
DID YOU KNOW...
factoids I've recently found, or added to Wikipedia
think you have a
bad life
? You could be a
shit-eating
Sloth Moth
- just one of a myriad of specialised species of
sloth-dependent creepy crawlies
.
the
CSIRO
medusa
is not a
creature I made up
,
Csiromedusa medeopolis
is an Australian
jellyfish
discovered in its own new
genus
in
2010
. Its species name means 'city of
gonads
'.
Australia
's giant stinging tree, or
Gympie Gympie
, is unique in the genus
Dendrocnide
in having
bisexual
inflorescences
.
the
City of Canada Bay
is not in
Canada
– it is a
Local Government Area
located in
Sydney, New South Wales
,
Australia
that was created in the year
2000
.
when a
top secret
1950s
military project file detailing a
chicken
-powered underground
tactical nuclear weapon
, "
Blue Peacock
", was declassified by the
British government
on
April 1, 2004
, it was initially presumed to be an
April Fool's Day
joke ... it wasn't.