Quite Interesting

[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.

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.

There may be more life under the Earth than on top of it, in the form of Sub-surface LItho-autotrophic Microbial Ecosystems or SLIME (off the top of my head, I think that's what it's called).

 

[The Rockerfly]

le snip

I hate you, I can never go swimming in the sea again and I live in England. I'm surrounded by water...
[small][small]ewww, I am surrounded by whale sperm[/small][/small]

OT: Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.

 

[El Poncho]

A Barnacle has not one, but two penises.

Your such an arse, he wan'ts to play a forum game and you just /thread with the second post!
[sub]sarcasm[/sub]

OT: A Dolphins penis is S shaped, and when people swin with dolphins they often get uncomfortabley excited. Why do these threads always come down to penis and vagina facts?

I think whale sharks have 2 penises I think that tops it(it may be some type of whale though because I was watching a programme about whales and it also mentioned whale sharks because they were measuring one)

 

[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.

There may be more life under the Earth than on top of it, in the form of Sub-surface LItho-autotrophic Microbial Ecosystems or SLIME (off the top of my head, I think that's what it's called).

In English, that's bacteria ecosystems that eat rock right?

Oh! I know a good one, in Chernobyl, scientists sent a robot to test for radiation and whatnot. What they found in the blown reactor, in amongst all the melted nuclear waste and radioactive dust, in conditions where a human would have been dead in minutes, they found life. The walls were covered in black mushrooms. The mushrooms it turned out, where actually [i/]feeding[/i] off the radiation. Eating it. It was a whole new feeding process they called 'Radiosynthesis'. Amazing.

 

[Dr.Susse]

Australia is a continent but if you're underground in Australia your in-continent.
(hooray for puns)

 

[brutus3933]

When threatened, some species of sea cucumber can eject part of its respiratory system out of its anus.

 

[Lukeje]

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

Hexidecimal is 0-9 A-F; you're thinking of sexagesimal [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexagesimal].

 

[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.

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.

There may be more life under the Earth than on top of it, in the form of Sub-surface LItho-autotrophic Microbial Ecosystems or SLIME (off the top of my head, I think that's what it's called).

In English, that's bacteria ecosystems that eat rock right?

Oh! I know a good one, in Chernobyl, scientists sent a robot to test for radiation and whatnot. What they found in the blown reactor, in amongst all the melted nuclear waste and radioactive dust, in conditions where a human would have been dead in minutes, they found life. The walls were covered in black mushrooms. The mushrooms it turned out, where actually [i/]feeding[/i] off the radiation. Eating it. It was a whole new feeding process they called 'Radiosynthesis'. Amazing.

That is good! And yes, you are correct. There is a species of fungus that feeds exclusively off jet fuel. As long as there is a tiny bit of water in the tank, this fungus will be able to live there.

The largest living being in the world is a mushroom, a honey fungus found living under Oregon's national Park. It covers over 2000 acres under the soil.

The fungus on old paper has been found to be slightly hallucinogenic, meaning bursts of inspiration from reading, say, the Bible, could simply be hallucinations caused by this fungus.

The Cordyceps fungus releases spores that infect the brain of a certain species of ant, and release an override pheromone that allows it to control the ant. The ant will then climb up a plant and lock itself in place with it's mandibles, after which the fungus erupts from it's brain like a spike, to shower spores on the ants below.

Nah, I'm out of fungus facts.

 

[Et3rnalLegend64]

Shouldn't this be moved to Forum Games rather than being in Off Topic? I'm surprised no one caught that yet.

Did you know that the North and South magnetic poles change positions every how many thousand years?

 

[Necrofudge]

There is a genetic mutation in the HbS gene that, if affecting only one gene, will give an immunity to malaria but, if affecting multiple genes, it will cause sickle cell anemia.

 

[Redingold]

The equations written by James C. Maxwell, 19th century physicist, that appeared to govern all observable interactions between magnetism and electricity, can be written on the back of a postage stamp, if you have small writing.

 

[Cargando]

That is good! And yes, you are correct. There is a species of fungus that feeds exclusively off jet fuel. As long as there is a tiny bit of water in the tank, this fungus will be able to live there.

The largest living being in the world is a mushroom, a honey fungus found living under Oregon's national Park. It covers over 2000 acres under the soil.

The fungus on old paper has been found to be slightly hallucinogenic, meaning bursts of inspiration from reading, say, the Bible, could simply be hallucinations caused by this fungus.

The Cordyceps fungus releases spores that infect the brain of a certain species of ant, and release an override pheromone that allows it to control the ant. The ant will then climb up a plant and lock itself in place with it's mandibles, after which the fungus erupts from it's brain like a spike, to shower spores on the ants below.

Nah, I'm out of fungus facts.

Really? I never knew practically any of that. Hmmm, how old does the paper need be?

 

[A Weary Exile]

Oh! I know a good one, in Chernobyl, scientists sent a robot to test for radiation and whatnot. What they found in the blown reactor, in amongst all the melted nuclear waste and radioactive dust, in conditions where a human would have been dead in minutes, they found life. The walls were covered in black mushrooms. The mushrooms it turned out, where actually [i/]feeding[/i] off the radiation. Eating it. It was a whole new feeding process they called 'Radiosynthesis'. Amazing.

That is extremley cool.

OP: Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find food (Stupid ribbon worms ).

 

[lostclause]

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

Hexidecimal is 0-9 A-F; you're thinking of sexagesimal [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexagesimal].

Thanks, I'll edit it to that.

 

[T-Bone24]

OT: Duck billed platypuses have poisonous front feet

*Puts on know-it-all hat*

Actually, male platypi (platypuses? platypoda?) have poisonous spurs on their hind legs, which they use to determine dominance and the like. Females do have spurs, but they do not produce poison.

OT: The Komodo Dragon is the largest venomous lifeform in the world.

 

[Jovlo]

The ancient Egyptians smeared their private parts with crocodile dung as a method for birth control.

 

[Cpt. Red]

In kernels the usually most effective way to handle precessing getting into deadlocks (that both, or more, are waiting for the other to finish) is to ignore it and just let the user to reboot.

 

[The Rockerfly]

le snip

I shall edit my first post and I tip my hat to you for telling me something useful
*tips hat*

 

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[mayney93]

there may not be a god, there may be more or not one at all


world of warcraft is not played entirely by nerds

the actual percentage of water of the earth is actually .3 % (not the surface, the earth as a whole)