"Box Jellyfish are not only the most venomous jellies to humans, but they also possess at least 24 functional eyes (of various degree) on its body despite having no centralized brain. Four of its eyes always peer up out of the water regardless of the animal’s body position; some eyes can make out images, others are more primitive."
"Hundreds of people die every year… from being strangled by their bedsheets."
"If all bacteria in a cheese decided to move in the same direction the cheese would move quite a distance in a day"
"One of the most common places to find a dead body is on the toilet. Cause when they’re alive and not feeling well, the first thing they do is go to the toilet thinking it could be a bowel issue."
"There is a condition where you just think you’re dead or don’t exist. People who have it sometimes stop eating because they think they’re dead."
"A sloth’s claws aren’t actually made of creatine, they’re their finger bones protruding from their flesh."
"Really just the fact that we can die or have our lives unimaginably ruined at any moment from a basically endless number of ways and that eventually within a handful of decades (or maybe seconds or any time in between) or so it IS going to happen."
"When a star dies it explodes and realeases a gamma burst and it destroys all in its path, if one goes off near Earth it’ll lead to extinction and theres no warning because it happens immediately."
"Many victims who survive bear attacks report the sound of the bear’s teeth scraping against their skulls."
"You have millions of mites, known as demodex, living on your face."
"If you get skinned alive, you’ll die from hypothermia, not blood loss"
"I was thoroughly disturbed when I read that tornadoes can happen in the middle of the night. It’s not that I ever doubted that, but just the thought of a tornado at 3am terrifies me."
"The floating specs you see probably aren’t dust but dead skin cells."
"Some species of Vultures can projectile vomit if they feel threatened."
"If we could hear the sound that the Sun emits, it would be the equivalent of standing next to a speaker at a rock concert."
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