Astonishing Facts....

[anonymous-user]

RizzoTheRat said:

So who did those 20k decend from?

Statistically you only have to go back about 3000 years to reach the point where everyone now should be related to a common ancestor, in reality its probably a bit more complex than that but not a lot, but getting back to a genuine single individual goes bay way further.

There was an volcanic event 70k that drastically effected modern humans populations, all but 5-10k breeding pairs left. That is what all humans are descended from. to get to a single pair would probably go back to the first organisms.

[anonymous-user]

Sonic Hedgehog is actually a protein that in humans is encoded by the SHH ("sonic hedgehog") gene.

[silverfoxcc]

On pointless tonight (

They give 100 people 100 secs to name something in a thread ) there was a round where one of the answers was


Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy

I dont know if it was a set up but 42 out of the 100 guessed it

[McVities]

Ayahuasca said:

Nom de ploom said:

^^^^


bees will sting you in self defence. wasps will sting by being bds. FACT.

If you have ever been attacked by a swarm of killer bees you will never call a wasp a bd again. Killer bees are the worst bds of them all.

Not encountered hornets before then??

[cuprabob]

silverfoxcc said:

On pointless tonight (

They give 100 people 100 secs to name something in a thread ) there was a round where one of the answers was


Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy

I dont know if it was a set up but 42 out of the 100 guessed it

Definitely set up

[Chebble]

McVities said:

Ayahuasca said:

Nom de ploom said:

^^^^


bees will sting you in self defence. wasps will sting by being bds. FACT.

If you have ever been attacked by a swarm of killer bees you will never call a wasp a bd again. Killer bees are the worst bds of them all.

Not encountered hornets before then??

Hornets are actually (relatively) docile if they’re left alone. Never encountered killer bees.

Wasps, however, can get to fk.

[RizzoTheRat]

Hornets apparently give off some kind of pheromone when they die that attracts other hornets, so if you squish one a load more will turn up and vow to avenge their fallen sister.

[glenrobbo]

The Spruce goose said:

There is no Adam and Eve, there was a bottleneck in genetics and it was traced to 10k breeding pairs are all human today decendents. Also the white gene was been around for about 10k, and our hairy decendents actually had fair skin.

You've lost me there! Whereabouts in the future are we ?

[okgo]

Annapurna has the highest death rate of any of the fourteen 8000m peaks with a 34% chance of dying if you attempt to climb it. Only around 200 people have summited it vs the 4100 that have made it to the top of Mt Everest.

[mickk]

glenrobbo said:

You've lost me there! Whereabouts in the future are we ?

I blame the killer bees

[kowalski655]

RizzoTheRat said:

Hornets apparently give off some kind of pheromone when they die that attracts other hornets, so if you squish one a load more will turn up and vow to avenge their fallen sister.

How can you tell its a "sister" as opposed to a brother?
I would not want to hang about checking the corpse's dangly bits(or lack thereof) if I knew a swarm of hornets was on the way seeking vengence

[Nik da Greek]

kowalski655 said:

RizzoTheRat said:

Hornets apparently give off some kind of pheromone when they die that attracts other hornets, so if you squish one a load more will turn up and vow to avenge their fallen sister.

How can you tell its a "sister" as opposed to a brother?
I would not want to hang about checking the corpse's dangly bits(or lack thereof) if I knew a swarm of hornets was on the way seeking vengence

Because like most social wasp species, all workers are genetically sterile females

[Halmyre]

The Berlin Wall has been down for longer than it was up.

[Nimby]

RizzoTheRat said:

Hornets apparently give off some kind of pheromone when they die that attracts other hornets, so if you squish one a load more will turn up and vow to avenge their fallen sister.

The same is true for ordinary honey bees - the pheromone is in the sting.

[anonymous-user]

Nimby said:

RizzoTheRat said:

Hornets apparently give off some kind of pheromone when they die that attracts other hornets, so if you squish one a load more will turn up and vow to avenge their fallen sister.

The same is true for ordinary honey bees - the pheromone is in the sting.

Also goes for chavs on 125 scooters.

[glenrobbo]

Crossflow Kid said:

Also goes for chavs on 125 scooters.

The Battle of Hastings was a long time ago.
Way back in 1966, just after the Battle of Brighton.

Many Vespas were harmed... and those velocipedes emblazoned with the RAF roundels.
There were no winners in those ridiculous skirmishes, but an awful lot of losers.

[bongtom]

Freddie Mercury was born in Zanzibar
Mel Gibson - New York and Nicole Kidman was born in Hawaii
Joe Strummer - Turkey
Emma Watson - Paris
Keanu Reeves - who cares.

Glencore has the biggest amount of ships in the world not Disney!

Frankenstien's monster had electrodes in his neck.

In the Khmer Rouge era around 23% of the population died. (Plus more died from starvation or other illnesses and US bombing)

Cats get brain freeze from ice-cream.

[Fort Jefferson]

America spends more on defence than the next 26 countries put together.

[mickk]

Fort Jefferson said:

America spends more on defence than the next 26 countries put together.

So do Manchester City.

[BrettMRC]

When the film "Battle of Britain" was made, the producers temporarily had the 35th biggest airforce in the world!