10-05-2016, 06:36 AM
A Fun and Informative Disarray of Factoids Daily--or Semi Daily--Various Sources:
10-5-2016
"How Long Is The Okapi Tongue?
Okapi slightly resembles to zebra because of the stripes, but it shares much more similarities with giraffe. It has long skull, large black eyes and very long, purplish tongue, just like giraffe. Okapi's tongue is 18 inches long and it can reach both its eyes and ears.
(You single ladies might want to rethink how you word those Craigslist "seeking" postings: "Searching for okapi. Character, honesty, sense of humor unimportant"--Spank)
"Why is an informant called a stool pigeon"
The phrase "stool pigeon" first appeared sometime during the early 1800s, with Noah Webster using it to describe a pigeon hunting tactic where a pigeon was tied to a moving stool to make the bird flutter and attract a large flock of pigeons for easy catching. But the animal uses are relatively rare compared to the frequency with which the phrase is used to describe people, when it was used to describe not just any old decoy, but one who would infiltrate a criminal enterprise and then report back to law enforcement personnel with their findings just to curry favor with the local cops.
10-5-2016
"How Long Is The Okapi Tongue?
Okapi slightly resembles to zebra because of the stripes, but it shares much more similarities with giraffe. It has long skull, large black eyes and very long, purplish tongue, just like giraffe. Okapi's tongue is 18 inches long and it can reach both its eyes and ears.
(You single ladies might want to rethink how you word those Craigslist "seeking" postings: "Searching for okapi. Character, honesty, sense of humor unimportant"--Spank)
"Why is an informant called a stool pigeon"
The phrase "stool pigeon" first appeared sometime during the early 1800s, with Noah Webster using it to describe a pigeon hunting tactic where a pigeon was tied to a moving stool to make the bird flutter and attract a large flock of pigeons for easy catching. But the animal uses are relatively rare compared to the frequency with which the phrase is used to describe people, when it was used to describe not just any old decoy, but one who would infiltrate a criminal enterprise and then report back to law enforcement personnel with their findings just to curry favor with the local cops.