10 Mar 2012, 7:37 am
i like the TV show Quite Interesting or QI a lot & thought it would be fun to do something similar here on WP. without the middleman of questions. (though if people think of questions, complete with 'traps' that could be fun)
so here's a place to post any trivia you've amassed in your travels, the only real criteria being that it must be quite interesting, although it being true would probably help.
anyways, hope this is enjoyed
one from QI researchers..
There are about 10000000000000000000 insects in the world. One percent of this total are ants. Their biomass alone exceeds that of all the humans that have ever existed (approximately 90 billion). There are more insects in one square mile of empty field than there are people in the world. New beetles are discovered at a rate of one an hour. There are 350000 named beetles, plus perhaps eight million more as yet unnamed; if you lined up all the animal and plant species in a row, every fifth one would be a beetle.
Q.I. <3
That three-headed frog is creepy.
Um...
In 2003, Thomas Newman was the film composer who earned the biggest amount of money from scoring only one film. He earned 340 million dollars for his "Finding Nemo" score.
John Debney, Don Davis and Christophe Beck earned more in total, but for more than one film. Don Davis got 419 million for scoring the Matrix sequels.
10 Mar 2012, 11:40 am
11 Mar 2012, 12:53 am
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11 Mar 2012, 12:57 am
^^^
welcome to our neat little club! 
11 Mar 2012, 1:06 am
11 Mar 2012, 12:44 pm
Dear AnnetaMarie, Here's an idea; you and I wil become very, very rich by starting an all-natural, environmentally safe bug-extermination company! We will put diapers on 50 ducks, turn them loose in a client's house over the weekends, and by Monday, no more bugs!
We are brilliant!
Sylkat 
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14 Mar 2012, 8:23 am
Just posted these links on GARTS but thought they'd probably be better off here.
http://www.plesiosaur.com/plesiosaurs/collard.php
http://www.natural-history-conservation ... iosaur.htm
The photo gallery on the first link is great.
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14 Mar 2012, 8:56 am
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15 Mar 2012, 6:28 am
A skeleton of Rhomaleosaurus victor, also known as Meyerasaurus (in honour of a German Palaeontologist called Hermann von Meyer). It would have lived roughly around 180 million years ago, in the early Jurassic era, and the skeleton is about 11 ft long.
It's one of the best preserved plesiosaur specimens ever found.
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Parasaurolophuscolobus. Parasaurcolobus. Colobusaurolophus.
....And Nunchucks are my friends.
15 Mar 2012, 8:05 am
We are brilliant!
Sylkat
That's a great idea! But first we'll need to buy about three thousand ducky diapers, and enough duck food to last until the end of the world. Also, we need forty-eight ducks!
15 Mar 2012, 11:48 am
I think it has a greater effect if you're younger because your brain is still developing. I'm not sure, it probably still contains many nutrients that you'd need, but you're able to get them from other food, too. I guess...
15 Mar 2012, 11:50 am
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