“If Betelgeuse, a fairly nearby giant star, goes supernova, it will light up our sky for about 2 months.”
“Your brain has a specific area dedicated entirely to recognizing human faces. This is why all animals of a certain species look virtually identical to us, but we can distinguish between very similar looking people almost perfectly. “
“You have 5.5 quarts of blood, and blood is 90% water, so it only takes 2 1/2 flavor packets to turn all your blood into Kool-Aid.”
“There are three species of ants that can recognize themselves in the mirror, thus showing some degree of self-awareness. Their faces were painted with blue ink and after seeing their reflection they tried to clean themselves from the stain.”
“Giraffes and humans both have the same number of neck bones.”
“70% alcohol is more effective in killing bacteria than 96% alcohol.”
“There are some Ice Age animals that are so perfectly preserved in permafrost that scientists have been able to find them still with all their soft tissue, hair, and organs. They even found a couple mammoths that still had liquid blood in them.”
“Caterpillars basically dissolve into liquid in the cocoon. The only thing left are the so called ‘imaginal discs’, groups of cells that contain all the information and the mechanism to turn that soup into the various body parts of a butterfly (the same applies for other insects).”
“If you put 1 of every animal in a bag and then pick one out you have a 1/5 chance in picking a beetle.”
“Slime molds don’t have brains or nervous systems but some how retain information and use it to make decisions. Even more crazy is that they can fuse with another individual and share the information.”
“The size of animals still blows my mind. You can read about how a manta ray is 23 feet long and 3 tons but it doesn’t really hit you until you realize that’s heavier than most cars.”
“A million seconds is 12 days. A billion seconds is 31 years. A trillion seconds is 31,688 years.”
“A 12 inch vinyl can hold 440 MB of data.”
“When you dream, one portion of your brain creates the storey, while another part witnesses the events and is really shocked by the plot twists.”
“The moon is just large enough, and just far enough away from earth, to be able to create full eclipses”
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