Lewes Seagull
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The screamer
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it appears i was using my calculator is broken
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My brothers Suzuki Vitara would disagree.
I did say "there is a chance"
seagulls4ever
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There is a chance I will die today.
There is a chance I will have a poo within the next hour.
There is a chance I will win the lottery tomorrow.
Fact.
Slippery Seagull
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you normally wake up with one bone, which normally disappears during the day, and sometimes comes back at night.
Slippery Seagull
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cp fans have on average an IQ that is 11.72% lower than normal humans
Slippery Seagull
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Not one, but 10 interesting facts about our feathered namesakes.
1. They are caring and attentive parents. Both the male and female pair for life and take turns to incubate, feed and protect the chicks.
2. They will eat or try to eat almost anything. Which probably explains why they can be found in Croydon.
3. They can live a long time. Up to 40 years in captivity but typically only 10 in the wild.
4. They can learn, remember and pass on behaviour. They have been seen furiously stamping their feet in unison in order to immitate rainfall and trick earthworms to rise to the surface, and also seen adults teaching their chicks how to smash open shellfish
5. They are all terrain. Although their large webbed feet can make them appear comical and clumsy on land.
6. They have a small claw half way up their lower leg which they use to prevent being blown off narrow ledges when they sit down or roost.
7. They can drink salt water this is because seagulls have a special pair of glands right above their eyes, specifically designed to flush the salt from their systems through openings in the bill.
8. Juvenile birds form nursery flocks and will be watched over by a few adult males. Where they will play, fight and learn the skills needed for survival. They will stay with the flock until they are old enough to breed.
9. Seagulls naturally inhabit shear cliff faces but have recently come to live on our roofs and amoung our chinmey pots. This is because humans provide easy pickings and gulls are either clever or lazy depending on your point of view.
10. They have excellent eyesight, better than you or me and unlike most birds their eyes can move in their sockets.
1. They are caring and attentive parents. Both the male and female pair for life and take turns to incubate, feed and protect the chicks.
2. They will eat or try to eat almost anything. Which probably explains why they can be found in Croydon.
3. They can live a long time. Up to 40 years in captivity but typically only 10 in the wild.
4. They can learn, remember and pass on behaviour. They have been seen furiously stamping their feet in unison in order to immitate rainfall and trick earthworms to rise to the surface, and also seen adults teaching their chicks how to smash open shellfish
5. They are all terrain. Although their large webbed feet can make them appear comical and clumsy on land.
6. They have a small claw half way up their lower leg which they use to prevent being blown off narrow ledges when they sit down or roost.
7. They can drink salt water this is because seagulls have a special pair of glands right above their eyes, specifically designed to flush the salt from their systems through openings in the bill.
8. Juvenile birds form nursery flocks and will be watched over by a few adult males. Where they will play, fight and learn the skills needed for survival. They will stay with the flock until they are old enough to breed.
9. Seagulls naturally inhabit shear cliff faces but have recently come to live on our roofs and amoung our chinmey pots. This is because humans provide easy pickings and gulls are either clever or lazy depending on your point of view.
10. They have excellent eyesight, better than you or me and unlike most birds their eyes can move in their sockets.
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• The Green Party attained 43.6% of the popular vote within the Brighton Pavilion constituency at the 2011 Council Elections.
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Surrey_Albion
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Surrey_Albion
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Didnt Scotland also get awarded a win when the other team didnt turn up but they still had to take kick off
The speed of light is 300,000 km/s
A light year is how fast light travels in one year (at 300,000 km/s)
Our nearest star - Alpha Centauri - is 4 light years away
So, if we could build a spacecraft that can travel at light speed, it would still take a round trip of EIGHT YEARS to visit even our nearest star after the Sun.
A light year is how fast light travels in one year (at 300,000 km/s)
Our nearest star - Alpha Centauri - is 4 light years away
So, if we could build a spacecraft that can travel at light speed, it would still take a round trip of EIGHT YEARS to visit even our nearest star after the Sun.
Surely depends on the starting size of paper?