Interesting Facts

The British ate frogs' legs 8,000 years before the French. (Archaeologists at Stonehenge have found the remains of the cooked front leg of a toad, which has been dated to between 7000 and 8000 BC (or BCE for those who have been attending my sessions. I'm not sure if this isn't something we should simply leave for the French to claim.)

Aristotle stated that flies have four legs. He was so trusted that his assertion was repeated in natural history texts for more than a thousand years. (Some people defend him by saying some flies, like the mayfly, walk on four legs and use their two forelegs to hold onto the female during mating in flight. I just like to think he got it wrong.)

Octopuses do not have eight legs. They have six arms and two legs. (Recent research has shown that they use two limbs for moving over obstacles, and the other six for manipulating objects.)