‘What’s the most shocking fact you know?’ – 17 unexpected nuggets of information guaranteed to raise an eyebrow or two
10.
‘A traditional pb and j sandwich can fit perfectly inside a vcr. However, it will not eject.’
-Frankinsens
11.
‘The Argonaut octopus has a specialized reproductive arm called a hectocotylus, that it detaches and throws at a female in order to mate.
‘Some marine flatworms fence with their penises. This can be part of mating, and the species that engage in this behavior are hermaphroditic and practice traumatic insemination. They can transfer sperm unilaterally or bilaterally, too.
‘Bed bugs also practice traumatic insemination.
‘The antechinus basically fucks itself to death. Females are synchronously monoestrus for about three weeks, and males basically just… Mate with multiple females for up to twelve hours each (litters can have multiple fathers). After mating the male experiences a surge of corticosteroid hormones that suppress his immune system and cause GI ulcers, leading to his death.
‘I probably have a lot more. I read a lot and like weird facts, these are just what come to mind immediately.’
-bouquetofashes
12.
‘Twenty-four hours after a large blood spill hits the floor, you can use a dustpan & broom to sweep up the jellified fluid.’
-Illustrious-Park1926
13.
‘I’ve gotten a few eyebrow raises for knowing that wombat poop is cube shaped. I honestly thought that was common knowledge.’
-DevourerOfEggs
14.
‘It actually takes about five minutes to knock someone out with a chloroform-soaked rag.
‘I mean, that’s what they say. They say it takes five minutes.’
-Rachel_Silver
15.
‘In the year 365, an earthquake off Crete caused a tsunami so devastating that it was commemorated as a “day of horror” in Alexandria, Egypt until the late 6th century, over 200 years later.’
-whitegirlofthenorth
16.
‘Octopuses have three hearts, blue blood, and can taste with their arms.
‘Two hearts pump blood to the gills, one pumps it to the rest of the body.
‘Their blood is blue because it uses copper (hemocyanin) instead of iron to carry oxygen.
‘Each of their eight arms has hundreds of tiny sensors that let them taste or sense chemicals in whatever they touch. People often get wide eyed and ask Wait how do you even know that’
-SeriousExamination49
17.
‘What looks like static on a “dead” TV channel is actually remnants of the Big Bang, a background radiation left over from the birth of the universe.’
-dirtybird971
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