User:ZayZayEM/DYK
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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.