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    Post  Son of Nod Wed Feb 16, 2011 2:18 am

    I have just discovered facts about Leaf-cutter Ants....

    If you have not seen leaf-cutter ants at work, there are hundreds of thousands of ants chopping out pieces of leaves and determined to carry them back to their colony.

    This species of tropical, fungus-growing ants can be found in South and Central America and some parts of the southern United States. Leaf-cutter ants form the largest and most complex animal societies on Earth.

    The central mound of their underground nests can grow to more than 98 feet across with mounds extending out to 260 feet, and containing eight million ants in just a few years.

    A nest of leaf-cutters, with a few million ants, can completely defoliate a full-size tree in about a day.

    The funny thing is that the ants don’t eat the leaves, as they can’t digest them. Yet they bring no other food into their colony. So what is the deal?

    Here’s the deal with leaf-cutter ants, they’re farmers. They use leaves as a medium to grow or farm food they eat, the lepiotaceae fungus.

    The strange thing is that lepiotaceae doesn’t grow anywhere else except in leaf-cutter colonies, because it has evolved to a point that it can’t reproduce without the ants’ help.

    The fungus helps convert the leaves into carbohydrates. In return, the ants keep the fungus alive by seeding shredded leaves with its spores. When a queen ant leaves to begin a new colony, she carries a supply of starter fungus in a special opening in her head.

    The ant societies are based on an ant-fungus mutualism and different species use different species of fungus, but all of the fungi the ants use are members of the Lepiotaceae family.

    The fungus needs the ants to stay alive, and the larvae need the fungus to stay alive. The only two other groups of insects that have evolved fungus-based agriculture are ambrosia beetles and termites.

    For at least 23 million years, the ants and fungus have had this symbiotic relationship. It makes us look at both species in a whole new light.

    Just thought I'd share this. Smile
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    Post  Son of Nod Wed Feb 16, 2011 2:21 am

    Just incase....

    A human circulatory system includes a heart, millions of veins and arteries, and other blood vessels. But an insect’s circulatory system is much different, and so is its blood, even though that system also sends blood to all the tissues in its body.

    An insect has only one major blood vessel, a vein that runs the length of its body and is open at both ends. This vein thickens in parts to form hearts, so that every insect has more than one heart.

    These hearts pump blood out each end of the vein, and the blood flows through the creature’s body. Some of the blood leaks back into the circulatory system through holes in the hearts, so there is always blood in the insect’s vein.

    This blood is not red, like yours or mine; it’s almost colorless, or a faint yellow or green. But perhaps you’ve squashed an insect and seen red blood. Where did it come from, you might ask. Well, you can be certain that the blood belonged to an animal or person the insect had bitten.
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    Post  Son of Nod Wed Feb 16, 2011 2:21 am

    I am on a mission of discovery here! Very Happy
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    Post  Son of Nod Wed Feb 16, 2011 2:23 am

    The wheel is one of man’s most important inventions, but no one knows for sure how, when, or where it was first developed. It is probable that early in man’s development, the idea came to someone of using a tree trunk as a huge roller for moving heavy objects.

    We do have proof that by 3500 B.C., the wheel was in use in Mesopotamia, the area known today as Iraq, Turkey, and Syria. Tablets unearthed from this period show soldiers in wheeled chariots.

    In England, the ancient monument known as Stonehenge has huge rocks dating to about 1500 B.C. Since these rocks are not native to England, but rather come from Western Wales, 300 miles away, it is likely that they were transported from Wales to England by the use of the wheel.

    Without the wheel, no transportation would be possible today!

    However, the wheel is shite without the axle! Very Happy Very Happy Neutral
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    Post  Son of Nod Wed Feb 16, 2011 2:36 am

    Most lipstick contains fish scales.... Shocked
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    Post  Broadhead Wed Feb 16, 2011 2:41 am

    Son of Nod wrote:Most lipstick contains fish scales.... Shocked

    trout pout.
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    Post  Son of Nod Wed Feb 16, 2011 2:44 am

    Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.
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    Post  Son of Nod Wed Feb 16, 2011 2:44 am

    Broadhead wrote:
    Son of Nod wrote:Most lipstick contains fish scales.... Shocked

    trout pout.

    Laughing Laughing Laughing
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    Post  Son of Nod Wed Feb 16, 2011 2:52 am

    Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33..
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    Post  Son of Nod Wed Feb 16, 2011 2:53 am

    Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
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    Post  Broadhead Wed Feb 16, 2011 2:54 am

    Son of Nod wrote:Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.

    That reminds me actually, ive broken the zip on a pair of my jeans (no funny business was involved, it was poor manafacturing that done it)

    Are these repairable? Or do i have to play Safety pin roulette everytime i need the toilet?
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    Post  Son of Nod Wed Feb 16, 2011 2:57 am

    Broadhead wrote:
    Son of Nod wrote:Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.

    That reminds me actually, ive broken the zip on a pair of my jeans (no funny business was involved, it was poor manafacturing that done it)

    Are these repairable? Or do i have to play Safety pin roulette everytime i need the toilet?

    If it is separated then:

    ZIPPER

    Otherwise safety pin route....but beware of pricking yourself!
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    Post  Son of Nod Wed Feb 16, 2011 2:58 am

    Chuck Norris CAN believe it's not butter.
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    Post  Broadhead Wed Feb 16, 2011 3:04 am

    Son of Nod wrote:
    Broadhead wrote:
    Son of Nod wrote:Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.

    That reminds me actually, ive broken the zip on a pair of my jeans (no funny business was involved, it was poor manafacturing that done it)

    Are these repairable? Or do i have to play Safety pin roulette everytime i need the toilet?

    If it is separated then:

    ZIPPER

    Otherwise safety pin route....but beware of pricking yourself!

    I think i'll take it to a seamstress to sort out, i'll make it worse if i try.
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    Post  Son of Nod Wed Feb 16, 2011 11:16 pm

    The average adult hedgehog has 5000 to 7000 quills.
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    Post  T.B Wed Feb 16, 2011 11:59 pm

    Son of Nod wrote:The average adult hedgehog has 5000 to 7000 quills.

    I don't need telling that! we ladies always know exactly how many pricks we are surrounded by at any given moment.
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    Post  Son of Nod Thu Feb 17, 2011 11:51 pm

    When airplanes were still a novel invention, seat belts for pilots were installed only after the consequence of their absence was observed to be fatal - several pilots fell to their deaths while flying upside down.

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    Post  crang Fri Feb 18, 2011 12:28 am

    In America,the pain killing tablet ibuprofen, is sold as a hangover cure
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    Post  Son of Nod Fri Feb 25, 2011 12:03 am

    Jimmy Hoffa, president of the Teamsters a labor union from 1957 until 1971, is best known in popular culture for his mysterious disappearance and presumed death in 1975. It's ironic, perhaps, that Hoffa's middle name was Riddle.
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    Post  Ye Olde Rog Wed Mar 09, 2011 10:17 pm

    well I have to say of all the topics this one was the most dissapointing.

    I know so much you see. And thrirst for more.

    Knowledge! not trivial blithering!
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    Post  Son of Nod Wed Mar 09, 2011 10:44 pm

    Ye Olde Rog wrote:well I have to say of all the topics this one was the most dissapointing.

    I know so much you see. And thrirst for more.

    Knowledge! not trivial blithering!

    silent
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    Post  Son of Nod Wed Mar 09, 2011 11:00 pm

    The Victorians lived over one hundred and fifty years ago during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837 to 1901). She ruled for 64 years.

    At the time when she came to the throne there was no electricity.Gas lamps or candles were used for light.
    There were no cars. People either walked, travelled by boat or train or used coach and horses to move from place to place.
    Britain managed to build a huge empire during the Victorian period. It was also a time of tremendous change in the lives of British people. In 1837 most people lived in villages and worked on the land; by 1901, most lived in towns and worked in offices, shops and factories.

    During Queen Victoria's reign Britain became the most powerful and richest country in the world, with the largest empire that had ever existed, ruling a quarter of the world's population.
    During that period towns and cities got piped water, gas and, by the end of the century, electricity.
    The number of people living in Britain more than doubled from 16 million to 37 million, causing a huge demand for food, clothes and housing. Factories and machines were built to meet this demand and new towns grew up, changing the landscape and the ways people lived and worked.
    Railways which were originally built to transport goods enabled people to travel easily around the country for the first time. Railways brought new foods to towns and cities.

    British soldiers were at war all over the world especially in 1850 - 1880.The Crimean war is the most famous of the wars fought at that time.

    Many households had a servant or servants – in 1891, 2 million servants were recorded in the census. New cookers and gadgets for the home were inventedat that time.

    For the first time ordinary people started going on holidays at the seaside.

    The Police Force was created at that period.
    Medicine made enormous progress with the discovery of antiseptic surgery by Joseph Lister.

    At the beginning of the Victorian period crossing the Atlantic took up to eight weeks in ships with sails. By 1901 it took about a week in steam boats.
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    Post  bigdaddy Thu Mar 10, 2011 4:27 am

    And moustaches. Don't forget moustaches.
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    Post  Son of Nod Thu Mar 10, 2011 7:59 pm

    bigdaddy wrote:And moustaches. Don't forget moustaches.

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    Post  Son of Nod Sat Mar 26, 2011 1:48 am

    You are born
    You live
    You die



    end of.....
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    Post  Ben Mon Mar 28, 2011 11:17 pm

    Ants are the "superweight lifters" of the animal kingdom. They are
    strong in relation to their size and can carry objects ten to twenty
    times their own weight-some species can carry objects up to fifty times
    their own weight. Ants are able to carry these objects great distances
    and even climb trees while carrying them. This is comparable to a
    100-pound person picking up a small car, carrying it seven to eight
    miles on his back and then climbing the tallest mountain while still
    carrying the car!
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    Post  crang Thu Apr 14, 2011 8:10 am

    Eastenders promotes unhealthy levels of alcoholic consumption!
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    Post  Sherrers Thu Apr 14, 2011 8:55 am

    crang wrote:Eastenders promotes unhealthy levels of alcoholic consumption!

    If that was true I'd watch it.
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    Post  crang Mon Apr 18, 2011 7:28 am

    The 'third rail',which is the electrified one on a train track,would not kill you if you touched it with dry bare hands.
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    Post  Fandango Widewheels Mon Apr 18, 2011 8:30 pm

    The CMD's 12 year old daughter needs to learn the difference between physio and psychotherapy. Comment from this weekend:
    'Mum, the thought of you and Mark having sex makes me feel like I need physiotherapy'.
    Classic.

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