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you wouldn't be alone to do so.. i'd call it a piece, or an instrumental though i normally reserve that for music without seemingly non-instrumental electronic noise.
i don't need to tell you the definition of song methinks

A rat can swim for 72 hours non-stop. It can jump down 50 feet without injury. It can squeeze through a half-inch gap, leap three feet, climb vertical surfaces and walk along ropes. It can survive longer than a camel without water. It will eat anything that's edible and lots of things that aren't (lead sheeting, soft concrete, brick, wood and aluminium).
It reaches sexual maturity at three months. An on-heat female can have sex more than 500 times with a barnload of different males and produce 12 litters of 22 young each year. In short, rats are very, very hard to get rid of.

Tardigrades are plump, microscopic creatures that fall somewhere between worms and insects. Also known as water bears or moss piglets, they are the toughest animals on the planet. If their water supply dries out, they dry out, too. All life processes come to a complete stop and they become totally inert. In this "dead" state, tardigrades are practically indestructible: they have been frozen to within a degree of absolute zero (-272C) and heated to temperatures of 151C. They have been immersed in chemicals and squeezed by pressures six times greater than those at the bottom of the ocean: but, like living granules of instant coffee, with one drop of water they come back to life - even a century later.

"My ignorance of animals is legendary, but I know two dogs quite well."
Alan Davies

from QI's column in the telegraph.

The Asian giant hornets of Japan, also known as the Yak Killer, are the super-predators of the wasp family. They are enormous - like flying thumbs, with a quarter-inch sting. Their venom is strong enough to dissolve human tissue and they kill more than 50 people a year. But the Japanese get their own back in style: they serve the larvae raw as hornet sashimi and deep-fry the adults, which are reputed to taste like sweet prawns.

yea lol if i ever saw a hornet like that i wouldn't hang around to get a picture

some interesting things about butterflies.. from QI's twitter

In October 2001, the first new species of British butterfly to be discovered for 112 years was described and named.

Britain has about 60 native species of butterfly. Costa Rica (which is about the size of Wales) has about 560.

Most butterflies have four eyes, but the caterpillars from which they develop have twelve.

yea, like i said a few posts back, it is a bit pedantic but hey.. plus the chance to mess with dunbots jk.. or am i? hehe
paul gilbert, the guitarist, calls everything a song.

It took Carolyn Jones two hours everyday to put on Morticia's make-up during the 1960's Addams Family TV series.

Pizza Margherita is named after Queen Margherita of Savoy. It was a special dish invented for her to have the colors of the Italian flag (tomato, mozzarella, and basil).

During childbirth scenes in movies and sitcoms, infant actors are smeared with cream cheese and red jam for an authentic “just born” look.