14 Facts That Will Make The World Seem A LOT Stranger
by N/A, 11 years ago |
3 min read
The world is a crazy place.
Science helps explain some of the craziness, but even within that world, there is still mystery around every corner.
Here are some facts that will help illuminate the world around you...or they might make you even MORE mystified!
1. Eagles don't have to be on land to mate. They can—literally—do it in the air!
2. More people die from coconut-related accidents than from shark attacks.
3. There is a breed of jellyfish that can regress to a sexually immature stage after it has become sexually mature. This ultimately makes it possible for this jellyfish to be immortal.
4. The DNA in your body could stretch from the Sun to Pluto TWICE.
5. If you keep walking North, eventually you're actually going to be walking South. But if you start walking East you will ALWAYS be walking East.
6. Luganda is a language spoken by the tribe called Buganda. They reside in Uganda.
7. Of all the Google self-drive cars, a grand total of two have been in accidents.
That's SUPER impressive.
8. Canada derives from an aboriginal expression meaning "Big Village."
9. Giraffes can survive without water longer than camels, but camels get all the credit for it.
10. Horses only breathe through their noses...never through their mouths.
11. The total weight of every human on Earth is actually less than the total weight of every ant.
12. Estimations put the total number of stars in the universe somewhere close to four times as many grains of sand as there are on Earth.
13. Wombats poop cubes.
Not much else to say here. They poop cubes.
14. The camels that famously populate Saudi Arabia have actually been imported from Australia.
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