Quite Interesting

[Simalacrum]

If fly's did not die, they would cover the entire planet in a depth of 2cm within a year.

Get killing, everyone!

 

[Gillespie]

Bananas, having no seeds, are actually infertile clones of each other; every single banana on Earth, every plantation, grows bananas with the EXACT SAME DNA.

Furthermore, bananas are not fruit - they are apparently herbs.

 

[JemJar]

You can add dozens of electrons to a hydrogen atom and it will still be hydrogen, but if you add a single proton to a hydrogen atom it becomes a helium atom.

I'll edit this if I think of something more interesting.

Strictly speaking it becomes a helium isotope ion - sorry

It's an interesting thought nonetheless.

The first successful mission to land on the moon was actually an unmanned Soviet mission (Lunar 9) in February 1966.

 

[Hookman]

A blue whales penis is the approximate size and weight of a minivan...I'll give you a second to think about that before I hit you with the 2nd fact. When the whale ejaculates only 10% of the sperm enters the female,why do you think the sea is so salty?!

 

[Arcanz]

A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.
The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.
A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save.
Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.
-40 degrees Celsius is equal to -40 degrees Fahrenheit.
Rain contains vitamin B12.

Weee, I could do this all day long. ^^

Bonus:
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch procejt at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosnt mttaer waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter.

 

[ma55ter_fett]

You can add dozens of electrons to a hydrogen atom and it will still be hydrogen, but if you add a single proton to a hydrogen atom it becomes a helium atom.

I'll edit this if I think of something more interesting.

Strictly speaking it becomes a helium isotope ion - sorry

It's an interesting thought nonetheless.

The first successful mission to land on the moon was actually an unmanned Soviet mission (Lunar 9) in February 1966.

You are of course correct, as usual I tend to over simplify.

and because this is a double post,

Male mayflies (in there adult form) have no mouth, and only live long enough to bang up the nearest feamles before dieing.

 

[jonny bhoy]

A blue whales penis is the approximate size and weight of a minivan...I'll give you a second to think about that before I hit you with the 2nd fact. When the whale ejaculates only 10% of the sperm enters the female,why do you think the sea is so salty?!

Live at the apollo!

 

[Spleenbag]

The Canadian goose has a strangely long and whip-like penis, with which it will lasso its female of choice so that it may mate with her.

 

[Redingold]

Octopodes (not octopi, the word is Greek, if it were Latin then the plural would be octopedes, like centipedes and millipedes - I think) can squeeze through a hole the size of their own eyeball, are capable of camouflaging themselves (some have been seen imitating waterlogged coconuts), are given the same legal status as lizards in UK labs, and may escape from aquariums, being able to walk over dry land for a short distance.

Sea cucumbers are made from a substance called catch collagen, which can behave like a liquid or a solid. The cucumber can pour itself down narrow holes, then solidify to hide from predators, it may expel all water from it's body and imitate a pebble, some species can give out sticky tubules that can tie up a hungry crab for hours, and they are also capable of blowing their digestive materials out their bottoms, filling the water with a toxic soup that can kill all the fish in an aquarium, including the cucumber itself.

 

[Aqualung]

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch procejt at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosnt mttaer waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter.

I feel like, if Picasso had his own language, this would be it.

Cool beans.

 

[Cargando]

There are about 21 senses.

 

[Redingold]

There are about 21 senses.

Sight, touch, smell, taste, hearing, balance, pain, heat, "body awareness", what else? Hunger? Thirst? How would you reach 21?

Additionally, there exists a condition called synaesthesia, in which senses combine, so that you can hear colours and smell sound. Jimi Hendrix suffered from this condition.

 

[Jedamethis]

Earwigs can fly, but nobody has ever seen them

 

[Redingold]

Brunei ants have guards whose heads explode, leaving a sticky mess that slows intruders down.

 

[Anarchemitis]

Electronic Arts has veiled experimental Game engines that can render such things as Subsurface Scattering and Ambient Occlusion real-time.
[img_inline width=300 caption="Subsurface Light Scattering"]http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/5460/handsdo5.jpg[/img_inline]
[img_inline width=300 caption="Ambient Occlusion"]http://gmoring.com/images/models/pistol/large/ambient_occlusion_better_mats.jpg[/img_inline]

 

[Cargando]

There are about 21 senses.

Sight, touch, smell, taste, hearing, balance, pain, heat, "body awareness", what else? Hunger? Thirst? How would you reach 21?

Additionally, there exists a condition called synaesthesia, in which senses combine, so that you can hear colours and smell sound. Jimi Hendrix suffered from this condition.

Pfft, stuffed if I know, all I can do is trust in QI.

Also, why I'm here, a few years back, scientists found air-bubbles trapped in a rock wall that conatained bacteria that had been alive since the Jurassic period.

 

[lostclause]

Our time system is based on the Babalonyians who had a sexagesimal system (numbered from 1-60, ours is decimal, 1-10). That's why we have 60 seconds and 60 minutes to each unit.

 

[mr.aravaro]

a full tank of gas has enough energy to put a car into orbit

 

[teutonicman]

There are these ants in south america that called bullet ants and their stinger venom feel like you 've been shot. There is the village in south america where the test to become a man invoves wearing 2 glove that have the ants woven into the glove stingers inward. They have to do this 20 times.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WQ6rFKhyn0
(my apologies I don't know how to imbed videos)