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Mount Erebus spews out pieces of half molten gold in its lava. Too bad it's in Antarctica.

It's more of a dusty red rather than deep blue. This is known because blood has been sucked into a vaccum devoid of oxygen and the blood still retains a rust color. If you were to seperate the blood cells of all of their hemogoblin, then MAYBE you would get blu-ish blood.

Antarctica is the only continent on Earth that does not experience earthquakes. It also harbors 98 percent of the earth's freshwater, and also is home to the largest iceberg in existence... it's nearly as large as Rhode Island.

Just a few more... not everybody has 206 bones as an adult. Excluding cases of extra limbs and digits, there are people who have bones that never manage to fuse, thus causing them to have extra bones. Also, the coccyx or tailbone, which usually contains 4 pieces, may have 5 pieces in other people. There is also a group of bones known as the sesamoids, named as they are shaped like the sesame seed. The largest and best known of these bones is the patella, though there are many other of these bones in joints, designed to take compression off of the joint itself. The exact number of these sesamoids in the body is unknown due to their number, size, and relative insignificance, but scientists generally agree that some people have more than others. Finally, should teeth be counted as bones, some people are born with a few more packed into their mouth, as well as the lucky few who grow 3 full sets.

That is all for today.

Tonight's subject: Carniverous Plants

The Venus Flytrap is a well known carniverous plant and is probably the most famous variety. It is obvious to many that the trap is closed upon an insects entrance, but how exactly does the whole shebang work? Well...
Venus Flytraps, which like to be kept at around 70 degrees fahrenheit and in moist, shady soil, consist of not just one but many different traps all connected to the same root system. Each of the traps remains closed at night, but during the day, the traps open on a hinge. The inside walls of the trap secrete a sweet smelling substance that attracts flies and some other insects. When a "guest" enters the trap to investigate, its clamoring on the joint of the trap triggers a reaction to shut it. Interlocking fibers on the lip of the trap help to shut it securely, after which enzymes break down the unlucky meal. Any nutrients are absorbed down the stem of the trap and into the center of the plant. The trap then opens, the exoskeleton of the hapless prey blowing away in the breeze.

There is also an underwater version called the "Bladderwort". This nasty little bugger consists of a trapdoor that can shut in one of the fastest reaction times in the plant or animal kingdoms: 1/500th of a second.

That is all for now.

Light is energy, and therefore has no mass.

Ask Mr. Sanborn, if you don't believe me.

Sorry man...

Still, I'm telling you that light has absolutely no mass. Let's say you have a box, and there is a burning light inside the box. The box is filled with light. If the light were to shut off, the light would disappear. Mass can not be created nor destroyed like light can. Also, if you were to have a box with no matter in it (a vaccum) and retain the light bulb, and bend in a section of the box, the light would not be displaced, also proving it takes up no space and has no mass whatsoever. You are right that light can be pulled in, though. This is because black holes are intense to the point where no matter nor energy can escape its depths. But just because light is pulled into a black hole doesn't mean it has mass.

The mayfly has the shortest known adult stage of any insect, living for just one day. However, the larva lives for years. Overall, the housefly has the shortest lifespan; it is 29 days on average.

Many know that the female mantises will relieve their mates of their heads while getting in on (a process that an alarming amount of human females also ponder doing), but why? According to scientists, this triggers a reaction that causes the male to release more sperm.

The common bumblebee is one round little bug. So rotund, in fact, that analysis shows that it should not be able to fly. And yet....

Male fleas have not one, but two phalluses.

And that.. should be enough for tonight.

This one is a little hard to believe, since it deals with constraints not yet known to mankind.

It is estimated that there are more possible situational positions on a chessboard than there are atoms in the known universe!!!

Ponder on that a while. That is all for tonight.