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All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one.
HENRY MITCHELL

& some trivia from QI's twitter..

There are more than 100,000 species of butterflies and moths.
Moths have their ears on their abdomens. Butterflies taste with their feet.

I seem to operate on Greenwich time, instead of Pacific Time.

more quite interesting things about animals..

In 1760, the College of Physicians and Faculty of Divinity in Paris classified the beaver as a fish because of its scaly tail. This meant that the French settlers in North America could officially eat beaver during Lent and on other fast days. Beaver tail is supposed to taste like roast beef.

An experiment with rhesus macaques revealed that they would "pay" to look at pictures of the faces and bottoms of high-ranking females, by forfeiting their usual reward of a glass of cherry juice. With low-ranking females, however, the researchers had to bribe them with an even larger glass of juice before they would pay any attention.

naughty monkeys, but something tells fudo spanking them would not help at all in this instance..

"Point Percy at the porcelain" lol classic!

Great apes laugh when playing, wrestling and tickling each other and as far as I know the only animals apart from humans that do laugh.
Here is a baby bonobo laughing when being tickled:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDkoJR7LlUw[/youtube]

Scorpions give birth to live young and some species are pregnant for longer than humans. They are one of the very few invertebrates to have independently evolved a womb where embryos are fed by teats linked to the mother (rather than by the yolk of an egg). Labour can take days, with up to 100 offspring scurrying up their mother's claws to nestle on her back underneath her sting, so nothing can get to them. Nothing that is, except the mother who, if she gets hungry, may snack on them herself.

Spiders' silk is five times stronger than steel and 30 times more stretchy than nylon. An average spider will spin more than four miles of silk in a lifetime and this can be collected and woven into garments. However, the spiders' predatory nature makes them tricky to farm: put 10,000 spiders in a sealed room and you will eventually end up with a single enormously fat spider. (Despite their reputation, female black widows only eat one in ten of their mates, although they can get through twenty five partners in one day.)

Crocodiles are more closely related to birds and dinosaurs than they are to lizards and other reptiles.

more from QI's telegraph column

Coffee and love are best when they are hot
German proverb

Hot places

Dallol, Ethiopia is the hottest inhabited place on the planet, with an average annual temperature of 34C/93F.
The hottest one-off temperature ever recorded was 57.8C at Al'Aziziyah in Libya in 1922. The hottest day ever recorded in Britain was August 10 2003, where it reached 38.5C at Brogdale in Kent.

The hottest manufactured temperature was recorded in February last year at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a 2.4-mile-wide 'atom smasher' at the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory. The collisions of gold ions travelling at nearly the speed of light created matter at a temperature of 4,000,000,000,000C (four trillion degrees), about 250,000 times hotter than the centre of the sun.

Ever sit around a campfire and wonder what's happening ?

Nice Feynman lecture on fire: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xerk9j ... -fire_tech

can't get the video to work on my ps3 (which is all i have, computer wise)
is there a youtube version?
fudo loves fire