Surprising Facts You Didn’t Know You Needed (23 PICS)

Posted in INTERESTING       17 Dec 2024       1606       2 GALLERY VIEW

"Otters carry around their favorite clam-opening rock in their armpit, and mothers will even pass on their favorite rock to their baby."

 

"Chickens have the DNA for teeth, it’s just not turned on."

 

"When a caterpillar enters a chrysalis and becomes a butterfly, it doesn't just sprout wings and legs. It essentially disintegrates into goo, and a new butterfly is built from that.

But that's not the weirdest part. The weirdest part is that it's possible to teach something to that caterpillar, and after it becomes goo and then re-forms as a butterfly, it still remembers what you taught it."

 

"A weird fact is that honey never spoils; archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3,000 years old and still perfectly good to eat!"

 

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"If you eat polar bear liver it will kill a human and if a polar bear eats your liver it will too."

 

"That divider at grocery stores that separates stuff on the conveyor belt is called a spratchet."

 

"The minimum number of humans required for the species survival is about two hundred. The minimum number required for *any* level of survival is fifty. Below that, the inbreeding becomes a problem in the long term."

 

"Pelicans have three stomachs and one of them is just for bones."

 

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"LASER is an acronym (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) but in most cases should be LOSER because the light is oscillated, not amplified."

 

"Great white sharks have never been seen mating. Ever. By anyone. Zero record made by a human. Strange considering what a mighty presence they have on humans."

 

"For me it is that the lighter was invented before matches."

 

"The swimming pools on the Titanic are still full of water to this day."

 

"Off the top of my head, maybe that fact that the great cats roar, but do not purr; lesser cats purr but do not roar."

 

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"Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood so fascinating!"

 

"The first public game of basketball was played the same week and less than 100 miles away from the last American vampire hunt. 

On March 11, 1892, James Naismith debuted his new game in front of a crowd of 200 spectators at the Armory Hill YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Meanwhile, on March 17, 1892, in Exeter, Rhode Island, a crowd of concerned villagers dug up the grave of 19 year old Mercy Brown. She had died two months earlier and locals had become convinced that her vampire was feeding on her sickly brother. In an effort to stop the undead Mercy, the crowd exhumed her corpse, burned her heart and liver, and gave the ashes to her brother in a tonic."

 

"Your eyes have their own immune system. If your "normal" immune system discovers this it will attack your eyes and you'll go blind."

 

"The spinal cord has the consistency of a ripe banana."

 

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"Spiders curl up when they die because the thing that keeps their legs out is blood pressure, which releases when they die."

 

"All cheetahs are genetically cousins. They almost went extinct thousands of years ago, down to like 100 individuals."

 

"The mantle plume hotspot that is half the cause of Iceland's intense volcanism (the other half being the Mid-Atlantic Ridge) is believed to have been the cause of the largest mass extinction event in the planet's history, back when it sat under what is now Siberia."

 

"The only animal other than a human that can perform a headstand is an elephant."

 

"I grew up on a dairy farm1960's. US milk production today is twice what it was then and there are half as many cows. Each cow produces four times as much."

 

"Killer whales are a natural predator of moose."

 

"Australia is wider than the moon."

 

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"The career that has the most s****des per year is dentist and then serving

Second most is veterinarians."

 

"An average storm cloud weighs about 47,627,199 kilograms."

 

"The Grand Canyon is so large that you could fit EVERYONE who ever lived inside it and still not fill it."

 

"Most polar bears are left handed."

 



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Katherine 1 day ago
#10 I'm pretty sure nobody ever saw my parents mate, and they had a mighty presence on me, too!
       
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Katherine 1 day ago
#21 "Suicides" is a censored word, now?
       
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