I was watching the latest episode of my favourite informative quiz show QI, and at 07:55 I'm suddenly informed of the fact that the Portuguese Man 'o War is not actually an animal, but rather a conglomorate of animals called a cnidaria. It consists of thousands of little animals called zooids, who live and work together in such a closenit way that ( Read more... )

It's both cheating and being honest if I say that my main source of new info on the net this past years has been QI, the BBC quiz show hosted by Stephen Fry. Since my cable company decided I could live without BBC 1, I've been forced to watch EastEnders and QI online, and that in turn made me look up all the series I'd missed before I discovered ( Read more... )