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oh, my bad, i assumed you were a yankee doodle, sowy.
i'm in kent 'the garden of england' but dangerously close to essex

I'm from Kent too, near Dover. But luckily NOT IN Dover.



(That can be doubled as an interesting fact if you want. )

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THINGS I LIKE
Parasaurolophus, Plesiosaurs, Dinosaurs, Pterosaurs, Music, Tuna, Chocolate milk, Oreos, Blue things

Parasaurolophuscolobus. Parasaurcolobus. Colobusaurolophus.
....And Nunchucks are my friends.

something quite funny.. & interesting

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUmJgi_I1KA&feature=related[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIpfo6OJ8ms&NR=1[/youtube]


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poSkVRd3ZY0&feature=related[/youtube]

more quite interesting things about animals, still waiting for someone to 'bite' on this topic.

Geckos can walk vertically up glass and scientists have recently discovered how. Their feet are covered in half a million tiny hairs, each of which splits into hundreds more with diameters less than the wavelength of light. This creates a powerful bond between the electrons in the two surfaces. One square centimetre of adhesive tape based on this principle has already been manufactured. If enough can be made to cover a human hand, you could hang by it from the ceiling.

aww
'nobody wants to play with me'

The Seven Gods of Fortune(Shichi Fukujin), commonly referred to in English as the Seven Lucky Gods, refer to the seven gods of good fortune in Japanese mythology and folklore. They are often the subject of netsuke carvings and other representations.
Each has a traditional attribute:

Hotei, the fat and happy god of abundance and good health

Jur?jin, god of longevity

Fukurokuju, god of happiness, wealth and longevity

Bishamonten, god of warriors

Benzaiten (Benten-sama), goddess of knowledge, art and beauty, especially music

Daikokuten (Daikoku), god of wealth, commerce and trade. Ebisu and Daikoku are often paired and represented as carvings or masks on the walls of small retail shops

Ebisu, god of fishers or merchants, often depicted carrying a sea bream

don't know if they'd get on with Fudo though , except Bishamonten, because Fudo is sometimes known as patron of the martial arts & Benzaiten, because Fudo is a Myo-o

The biggest raindrops on Earth were recorded over Brazil and the Marshall Islands in 2004 — some of them were as large as 10 millimetres (0.39 in). The large size is explained by condensation on large smoke particles or by collisions between drops in small regions with particularly high content of liquid water.

thanks Titangeek, it was getting lonely in this thread.

kinda related, from the QI episode Flotsam &jetsam ..
in the mouth of the Catatumbo River in Venezuela. Lightning strikes for 10 hours a day (up to 280 times an hour) for 180 days of the year. It is believed to be the world's greatest source of ozone. So much is released that it helps repair the ozone layer.


& unrelated but from the same episode..
The difference between flotsam and jetsam is that flotsam is debris which has washed up on shore because of a shipwreck (by accident), while jetsam is debris which has been deliberately thrown off the ship (cargo that is jettisoned). They are two of the four officially recognised kinds of debris. The other two are lagan, which is debris in the sea which can be rescued because it is normally attached to a buoy, and derelict, which is debris at the bottom of the sea which no-one can rescue.

thought i posted this before but apparently not, was just reminded by Titangeek in the 'quotes of the day' thread.

Speed is a relative measurement and, according to Einstein's theory of Special Relativity, the constant against which the speed of all objects in the universe is measured is the speed of light (186,282 miles per second).
Logically, that ought to mean nothing can travel faster than light. But this isn't quite true. The fastest thing in the universe - faster even than light itself - is the movement of objects away from each other as the universe expands.
This expansion is less like an explosion from a single point than an expanding loaf of raisin bread in the oven, with the raisins as galaxies and the dough as space. Space expands, but the galaxies remain in the same proportion to one another as they become more distant.
The photons which transmit light from distant stars back to us are like ants on a stretchy rope. They travel towards the observer, ie us, at the speed of light, but are simultaneously being yanked away from us as space expands. This means that the distance between us and the most remote observable objects in the universe is increasing at something like 1.8 times the speed of light itself. So these can be said to be 27 billion light years away, when the universe itself is only 14 billion years old. In fact the the actual universe may be much bigger than the observable one, as light from some objects will never reach us.

Modern food processing came about as a way to preserve food to feed military troops. Before the industrial revolution, this need was met by salt preservation. Early canned foods were even less appealing than modern ones, because they used lead in cans.

That reminds me, the hazardous substances that people used to use for various things is pretty interesting. Of course everyone knows about lead paint and asbestos tiles. Lead was used in ancient Rome to sweeten wine, which was why the emperors tended to go nuts. It was also used in make-up by the ancient Egyptians.

We all know about how mercury has been used in vaccines, but it is also used in mascara. Maybe this is Jenny McCarthy's problem. Cinnabar, which is a common ore of mercury, was used for decorative purposes by the Olmec as well as in Chinese lacquerware and medicine. (I believe it's still used in Chinese medicine.) It's also been refined to a powder (vermilion) and used as a food coloring.

Women also used to use belladonna, even though it was known to be poisonous, because it made their cheeks red.

it is a myth that Twinkies will last 30 years, the cake part of it will become inedible quite quickly without the wrapper, the filling on the other hand can last 20+ years without refrigeration.



and people (including me) eat theses things...

thought i'd add this... http://www.qi.com/about/philosophy.php the 'QI philosophy'.
it ends with "And this is the point of QI: it is worthwhile. It is 'autotelic'- worth doing for it's own sake. And it echoes the venerable mission statement of Lord Reith's BBC: to educate, inform and entertain.
No one need ever be bored again." which sums up quite well in my opinion, especially the referencing the bbc manifesto. anyways..


some treats from QI's twitter.
Each UK prisoner costs £45,000 a year - one and a half times as much as it takes to send a boy to Eton

The world's most fertile bull, Itofuku-go, died in Japan in 2002. In a 20-year career he fathered 39,157 calves, over 7 a day