Answered Infrequently Asked Questions
IAQ stands for Infrequently Asked Questions. Under this topic you can find a list of questions that are seldom asked.
- What do penguins eat?
- What is the smallest fish in the world?
- How many people have ever lived on the Earth?
- What does YAHOO! stand for?
- What about GOOGLE?
- Is it true that a requirement for being the president of Romania is to have your last name ending in "ESCU"?
A: The main meals of the penguins include fish, squid and shrimp, but Antarctic penguins also each krill, which is a shrimp-like marine invertebrate. Some penguins each rock crabs.
Q: What is the smallest fish in the world?
A: According to the UK's Royal Society, the smallest fish in the world is a member of the Paedocypris genus, lives in the peat swamps of the Indonesian island of Sumatra and measures about 7.9 mm at maturity. Their brain lacks bony protection and the females have room to carry just a few eggs. The males have a little clasp underneath that might help them fertilize eggs individually. The fish was discovered by Maurice Kottelat (Switzerland), Tan Teok Hui (Singapore). The destruction of the Indonesian peat swamps threatens their existence, so they might not be there for long to see it.
You can read more on BBC.
Q: How many people have ever lived on the Earth?
A: Nobody knows for sure, and estimations can be rather less than more accurate. There are two factors that must be taken into account when making such estimation:
for how many years do humans like on Earth and the average size of human population at different periods.
According to estimates of the US Population Reference Bureau about 100 billion people have ever lived on earth.
You can read more on the PRB's web page.
Q: What does YAHOO! stand for?
A: Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.
A: The name represents a misspelling of googol, which is a term for the number 10 at the power of 100, which is 1 followed by 100 zeros. Larry Page, one of the founders of GOOGLE, was fascinated with mathematics and big numbers, but he misspelled the word on a check from the investors.
A: If you heard that somewhere, it's only a myth. LOL. No, there is no such requirement, though it's 100% true that all Romanian presidents so far had their names ending in escu: Ceausescu, Iliescu, Constantinescu, Basescu. No one knows what the future holds in this direction.
Unanswered Infrequently Asked Questions
Here I list infrequently asked questions for which I don't have an answer. If you do mail it to me please. ;)
Q: How does Tweety Bird manage to keep balance with such a big head?
Q: Since Wile E. Coyote has so much money to buy all sort of machinery, why doesn't he go to Mc' Donalds to buy a chicken hamburger and a Coke, instead of hunting the Road Runner?
Q: Why do Superman, Batman and all the other superheroes wear the underwear over the pants?
Q: Why do all negative characters want to destroy the Earth? Were will they live after?
Q: Have you ever wondered whether the Pink Panther is male or female?
Q: Why do all Disney characters have white gloves and four fingers?
Q: Why do the Flinstones celebrate Christmas, since they lived in the Stone Age, way before Christ?