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A dinosaur skeleton that was discovered in an excavation in Korea was named a Koreaceratops.
I thought that was quite funny and interesting (thanks National Geographic mag)

there would not be clouds if it was not for condensation nuclei. Which is pretty much dust and salts in the air.

I'm not a good traveller. I find it hard to have to sit still. But I'd love to see the usual suspects.

Santa Maria del Fiore (The Duomo):



Milan.

Off topic, but brief- The building in the first of these photographs I find beautiful. The second looks like a menacing alien spaceship which just landed. I wonder if it is partly because of the coloring. The second looks overly detailed, like some insects. Mind you I find some insects beautiful. Some scarab beetles versus roaches, for example.

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Ripe mulberries are delicious! I would recommend them. Many things (like vitamins) when taken in large enough doses are poisonous.

I OD'd on Vitamin A once.
Scary.

I'll bet! Vitamin A can be dangerous. My brother had a slight overdose on vitamin C (I think) but the only symptom was that his skin turned orange!

wow. thanks everyone, lots of interesting things.
on cathedrals, here's fudo's local in rochester.



apparently the second oldest in the country, being about 1400 years old.

Yes absolutely ripe mulberries are delicious! I grow a dwarf ever-bearing variety of black mulberry that is just about the tastiest fruit I know...

Now for today's interestingness, from the same botanical family to which Mulberries also belong, Moraceae...

Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus) is the largest tree-borne fruit in the world, reaching 80 pounds in weight and up to 36 inches long and 20 inches in diameter. Although I've never eaten one, I hear they are quite tasty.

Four quite interesting things about England - though I'm not sure the website (URL below) is the most accurate.

The world's first modern Olympic Games were not held in Athens in 1896, but in the small town of Much Wenlock (Shropshire) in 1850, which inspired French Baron Pierre Coubertin to launch the Athens Olympics half a century later.

The national anthem of the United States ("The Star-Spangled Banner") was composed by an Englishman, John Stafford Smith (1750-1836) from Gloucester.

The first building in the world to overtake the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt was Lincoln Cathedral in 1280. Although its spire was destroyed in 1549, it kept the title of highest construction ever built in the world until 1884, when the Washington Monument was erected.

It is in England that the first postage stamps appeared. The first Penny Post was invented by entrepreneur William Dockwra (and Robert Murray) in the 1680's for delivery of packets within London. The first nation-wide stamp (and first adhesive stamp) was the Penny Black, introduced in 1840 as part of Rowland Hill's postal reforms. Because Britain was the first country to issue national stamps, British stamps still have the unique distinction of not mentioning the country's name on them.

More - http://www.eupedia.com/england/trivia.shtml

thanks, pratchettfan

i had heard of Much Wenlock's influence on Baron de Coubertin from QI itself but the rest is new & the former fact is still quite interesting

QI Fact of the Day

Aerodontia is the branch of dentistry dealing with dental problems caused by flying.



QI Quote of the Day

"All men can fly, but, sadly, only in one direction."
JOHN F KENNEDY

- Black and White Colobus Monkeys are native to equatorial Africa.
- They can grow up to about 30 inches long, with around 40 inch tails, and can weigh from around 17lbs to 32 lbs.
- They usually live to around 20 years in the wild, and up to around 30 years in captivity.
- Their natural habitat is usually forests and wooded grasslands.
- The name 'Colobus' comes from the Greek word for 'maimed'. They are called this because their thumb is shaped like a stump.
- Colobus Monkeys have a similar stomach to that of a cow (of the moo variety), and it has 4 separate chambers in order to obtain maximum nourishment from it's herbivorous diet.
- They live in groups of usually around 9 to 15 members consisting of a single adult male, the rest being females that birth his offspring.
- There have been documented cases of allomothering, meaning other members of the Troop babysit, and the infant's mother is not the sole carer of the baby.
- Baby Colobuses (or Colobi) are born with white fur, which gradually darkens and lengthens in specific areas as the child ages and reaches adulthood. The long haired areas remain white.
- The long white fur on a Colobus Monkey's tail and sides are there not only to make themselves look bigger in order to put off potential predators, but also are specifically designed to easily detach when grabbed by a potential predator, much like a lizard's tail, allowing the Colobus to make it's escape and leave the wannabe predator all confused and hungry and junk.
- Colobus Monkeys are important for seed dispersal within their environment, due to their sloppy eating habits and their digestive systems leaving faeces all over the place containing seeds etc.


A Black and White Colobus Monkey


A Colobus showing it's teeth


Another one


A Colobus Monkey eating


A group of Colobuseseseseses


A baby Colobus Monkey


Showing off it's long white hairy bits around it's tail and sides.


A close-up one


Another Colobus eating some stuff



Squee and such.

someone's been doing their research. or maybe this is Monkey? i suspect she wouldn't have added 'Squee and such.' though.

thanks, rabbitears. definitely quite interesting, 10 QI points.

Nope, not MONKEY. This was most definitely done by El Rabbito himself. I saw some at the zoo yesterday, and felt they are somewhat noteworthy.
And as I feel I should contribute to this fine old thread more often, I thought I'd construct myself a little project. (It took ages too, since my first attempt got deleted because Mozilla Firefox crashed.... Juuuust as I was about to submit it. So I had to do it all again ).

Thanksyou for the points! I will keep them stored away for a rainy day.

you earned your points most informative.
my ps3 keeps crashing today too, i feel your pain