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#1
The pink, grotesque, slime-looking image that comes into your head when somebody says “blobfish” is a fish that has been violently killed. Many deep sea animals have adapted to the deep sea pressure by requiring it to hold their bodies together, like the blobfish. When caught in a fishing net and dragged up to the surface the blobfish’s organs and skin begin to expand, painfully killing it. Like how a human in an area with high pressure implodes, but the opposite. This is what a blobfish should look like: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSFxxn2dObBDteHIOx_OlJoxT-3mabvvJr-KgfTj0tCpA&s
Final score:
22points
Margaret H 2 years ago
I always thought being dragged up from the bottom of the sea would make me look miserable, too.
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#2
Proboscis monkeys of Borneo have long nose which can be upto 10cm. They got nine stomachs to process hard to digest fruits which are inedible to most other animals. They are so adapted to these kinds of fruits till eating plain bananas is poisonous to them. And the males have permanently erect pènis.. talk about always ready to 'perform'.
Final score:
20points
#3
Studies have found that people with arthritis and/or vertigo can sense changes in weather.
Final score:
19points
Doodles1983 2 years ago
As can people with Fibro. And some eczema’s breakout with weather changes
Lemme get the lemons 2 years ago
As someone with eczema, vertigo, and EDS damned I'll be if it's not annoying
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KombatBunni 2 years ago
Yup, ankle and wrist on my left side will start to ache with the onset of a storm or cold weather. I hate it :(
Lemon Beans 2 years ago
Arthritis, vertigo, and living in Florida when it's hurricane season. I am suffering :)
#4
It would take a person an average of 23,034 slaps to cook a chicken. (One slap creates an increase of 0.00089 degrees Celsius according to calculations)
Final score:
17points
CG 2 years ago
I remember Louis Weisz did this experiment on YouTube, and it was fascinating to watch. He also did it with steak and a turkey.
Margaret H 2 years ago
Does the hand that does the slapping get cooked at the same rate? So you can have crispy fingers with your drumstick?
#5
That Patagotitan was so large, it couldn't be warm blooded, because it would take too much energy and leave the skin cool, and couldn't be cold blooded because that wouldn't penetrate deep enough, so was inserted warmed by basically just its biological processes, which worked due to its size. This is called being gigantothermic.
Final score:
15points
Me. (Submission author) 2 years ago
Sorry, completely forgot to add context
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Introducing the hairy frog: This freak of nature is found in Cameroon and in other surrounding countries of Africa. What makes them unique may disturb you. Males have several hairs growing along their bodies that are only visible during their breeding season. To defend themselves, these frogs force out bone from their fingers and through their skin that act as sharp claws. The skin is later regenerated as the claws slide back into their feet. How is that for creepy?
Final score:
14points
AxolotlViolet (they/them) (Submission author) 2 years ago
They are called wolverine frogs too
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#7
That there is a super volcano underneath Yellowstone that is overdue for an eruption, and that when it does blow, most of the North American continent will be wrecked.
Final score:
13points
Red_panda 2 years ago
Overdue in geological time means the difference of millions of years. So just because it's "overdue" doesn't mean it's going to erupt soon in human time. It means it's going to erupt sometime in the next million or so years.
Kevin the Manager (Submission author) 2 years ago
Nuh-uh. It's going to erupt tomorrow at 4:35 p.m. EST.
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Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
Worldwide destruction, IF it goes worst case, IF it goes like it did 1.2 million years ago, IF.... Way more IF than "when" in these situations. Or it could just give Wyoming a bad day.
TotallyNOTaFox 2 years ago
There is also a super volcano in Italy that is more at risk of erupting currently
Kevin the Manager (Submission author) 2 years ago
Nuh-uh. The Yellowstone volcano is more risky.
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Speaking as a medical doctor? What Covid does to your cells. There is something uniquely horrifying to me about the way cells grow *antennae* in some cases. (Technically, it's called fillopodia, but they reach around and "check" the environment, so antennae are a good analogue.) HIV and HSV1 also do this, but that doesn't make it less horrifying.
Final score:
10points
Saint Tim the Godless 2 years ago
You forgot about the blood clotting disorders they are finding in otherwise healthy young people after contracting COVID. Thanks, virus!
Leo Domitrix (Submission author) 2 years ago
Actually, funny you mention that, b/c while it's been hot in research, there's a few things that have caught the eye of a doc I know, and since it's related to something she will probably win a Nobel Prize for in future, I hope to be part of the team when she gets her grant to study clotting factors, covid, and the expression of a certain gene linked to rare lymphomas. Sounds crazy, but there's a possible correlation, and if that helps prevent/diagnose? Or rules it out so we can move on? Every bit helps.
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Ken Beattie 2 years ago
So you're telling me we got covid but at least we also got a reach-around?
#9
The universe will end. All of the stars will die, and the universe will be just expanding into nothing, with only star corpses to show it was really there. We will all end. Nothing permanent.
Final score:
10points
Moreta Lynx 2 years ago
No, because no matter how far you are from an object you are, it's gravity well will still affect you. The long-term meaning of this is. Once the energy from the big-bang peters out and the universe stops expanding, the gravity of the mass in the universe will draw everything back together into a brand new big bang. Everything starts over again. And since matter/energy can never be created or destroyed (laws of thermodynamics), there is nothing stopping this perpetual motion machine we call our universe. The end is only a new beginning.
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There’s a lot of power in a snap, and a sneeze. There’s an article somewhere saying how fast your finger travels from your thumb to the palm of your hand. And sneezing- shoot, if we could shoot bullets out of our noses, we wouldn’t need guns. Just pepper, a feather, and sunny weather
Final score:
9points
#11
Apparently, if you grind a sea sponge into a saltwater sieve, the sea sponge will reorganize itself back into a sea sponge. It’s the only animal we know of that can do that (I found this on r/cursedcomments) Also, captivity raised ostriches can become sexually attracted to humans (again, r/cursedcomments)
Final score:
7points
Marinasongs1432 (Submission author) 2 years ago
No problem! For the seawater sponge thingy, the original came from a TIL Reddit post with a TIL. The other came from an Uber Facts of something like that. I can probably link this.
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JahJahBinx 2 years ago
What happens if you get 4 sea sponges and grind them through a sieve, do they go back to their own separate selves of go to 1 giant sea sponge?
Hi_im_a_doge (she/her) 2 years ago
So... does this mean some people have done it with an ostrich? Idk just an idea...
Marinasongs1432 (Submission author) 2 years ago
If I were to guess, a human was a victim. Or at least, ostriches must have shown sexual attraction and desire to mate multiple times with a person? With multiple ostriches? Idk
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Humans can smell rain 3x better than sharks can smell blood
Final score:
7points
#13
Banana slugs (all slugs) are hermaphrodites with each individual having both sets of sexual organs. After mating, sometimes in groups, they chew off each other's penises which is known as apophallation.
Final score:
7points
#14
Pineapple contains an enzyme called bromelain, when you eat pineapple, this enzyme digests protein in your body; it eats you back!
Final score:
7points
OneHappyPuppy 2 years ago
Same with papaya - the fresh juice of a pineapple or papaya are good meat tenderisers for this exact reason
Clown fish (Submission author) 2 years ago
I didn't know that about papaya
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That the signals in your brain move faster than your awareness of them... which means when you think of picking up an object your brain has already sent the signal before your awareness that you wanted or needed to pick it up. Control is an illusion.
Final score:
7points
Stephanie Goadsby 2 years ago
In other words, control is an illusion, where controlled is not.
Red Foreman (Submission author) 2 years ago
There's only one me, and that's you. 🤗
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the milky way and andromeda are set to collide in (roughly) 4.5 billion years. once it occurs, our galaxies outter rings will disappear and the andromeda's black whole will devour ours; it has the mass of 1000 million suns, while ours is only 4 million. the collision will vause a huge elliptical galaxy. in theory, most of both galaxies will survive, but will be flung into different positions. ( please let me know if there are any inaccuracies !! i learned about the collision when i was, like, ten and got a lot of the information from other sources. ) ( sources: google, tiktok, my fifth grade hass teacher, reddit )
Final score:
7points
#17
Some tumors are able to grow hair and teeth. I don’t remember the exact explanation for how this works though, so don’t ask me how.
Final score:
6points
#18
If you were to venture within about 600 miles (1,000 km) of a magnetar, its magnetic field would tear the electrons away from the atoms in your body, turning you into a cloud of monatomic ions (single atoms without any electrons).
Final score:
6points
me McG 2 years ago
And if you bring a magnet within 0.635 cm of Wooly W***y's face you can change his looks. Willy-649f...d9e290.png 
#19
If you wanna skin a human alive, you had to do it in a warm place or else they'll die of hypothermia. Read this in a YouTube comment somewhere ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Final score:
5points
#20
female hyenas. first, their sexual organs have a psuedo-male part. but, that isn't the worst. apparently, their vaginal canal is so extremely narrow that in giving birth they literally get ripped open. just can't imagine how horrible and painful that is. no wonder that after they mate the males get the hell away because the females often get very aggressive with them.
Final score:
5points
TotallyNOTaFox 2 years ago
They have pseudo-penises that are bigger than the ones of males and can be retracted. During birth they aren't able to do that though
Hi_im_a_doge (she/her) 2 years ago
I saw a comic about this. It was kinda like the Daniel Tiger thing where the families are actual animals, but a comic and the cat lady was discussing birth stories and the dog lady was like, "shh don't ask her that" and the cat one wa slide "imma Google it" "don't Google it" "Googling it!" And then sheer horror
Gemma Harrigan(She/her) 2 years ago
Also female spotted hyenas produce more testosterone then the males.
#21
The komodo dragon is not venomous as many believe. Actually, the saliva of the dragon has a bacteria which infects the blood stream of a wounded animal. If this animal happens to get away, the dragon can follow the scent for a long time until it comes across the likely dèad animal. However, it’s hard to escape the jaws of the Komodo dragon because of its shark-like teeth.
Final score:
5points
#22
There is a disorder called Exploding head syndrome in which you will be awoken by an exploding sound (or loud crashing sound) whenever you try to sleep.
Final score:
5points
Stephanie Goadsby 2 years ago
Sometimes I am awoken by the sound of someone calling my name, though no one in the house has. I hear it as clear as day. I wonder if it bears a similar relation, if it's just anxiety, or something more spiritual.
Lemme get the lemons 2 years ago
Same for me, but occasionally only me and my dad will hear it. I have a very distinct name as well, so it would be wierd if we heard something else.
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It may be related, but I frequently hear the sound of a doorbell and it scares the crud out of me. Happened this morning around 4am and I couldn’t go back to sleep. Check the cameras, nothing there. I’m not the only one in the household, but I’m the only one who “hears” it.
Feathered Dinosaur 2 years ago
When I had a baby I would be so anxious I always heard the baby crying when I wanted to sleep and she was in another room with my mum or dad, even when she was sleeping soundly
OliveMarmalade 2 years ago
Wait. So whenever I try to sleep and I hear that big noise, I'm not crazy?! It only happens sometimes, but I'm falling asleep and I hear a noise, and I think I imagine it.
Sooploosh MacSchnibble (Submission author) 2 years ago
Idk much about this, maybe you should do more research?
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My favourite ones (yes I’m weird) is that birds can’t pass gas, and that herring communicate by passing gas :D
Final score:
5points
the harbinger of doom (she/he) 2 years ago
you might have mixed it up with herron
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#24
This is a very simplified fact but if a small glitch occurs in the quantum realm, the universe will end and the glitch can occur at any time
Final score:
4points
Ridiant 2 years ago
It's a scary concept, but the idea of some bit of the universe going "Wait. Darnit. Lemme adjust some stuff real quick" and then wiping out all of existence in the process of said adjustment is. Almost amusing, in a dark way. C'mon, couldn't you have figured this out about thirteen-point-seven billion years ago? No? Okay...
Kevin the Manager 2 years ago
It has actually already ended, but since our brains keep functioning for 17 seconds after death, we are all collectively re experiencing our entire lives, which seems to take years.
Saint Tim the Godless 2 years ago
False vacuum decay. If the universe is infinite, it's already happened in an infinite number of places, expanding outward at the speed of light.
Kilo Jones 2 years ago
Likely story... Story likely... Likely story... Story Likely... Neorphius
#25
The reason people who have had chickenpox before can have shingles later in life is because the varicella zoster virus hides out in your nerves until it decides to emerge and cause problems again. Shingles generally manifests on the skin (where it is, indeed, enough of a problem). However, in severe cases, it may also manifest on the visceral organs - that is. Inside. It's an excellent guest, really.
Final score:
4points
#26
There is something called transgenerational or intergenerational trauma.
Final score:
4points
Lene 2 years ago
Aaaahhhh yes. We have this in my family. Our trauma is that my great grandfather went to fight for the Germans during ww2 (his parents had come to my country from Germany and they seem to have raised their kids to have a German mindset. So I am convinced my great grandfather felt that he fought for his "real" country). Still, to this day, my mom tells me that I must not tell anybody because if I do they will probably think that I'm a Nazi. Because he was. (Well, he hated ALL people. My granddad still talks about what a sh***y man my great granddad was). My grandmom always got upset whenever ww2 was mentioned in any way. My mom seems to think the ideology my great granddad fought for runs in the blood somehow? Or fears that other people will think it does? Oh, and the entire family on my mom's side is broken and scattered. But I "signed out" of that as a teen and only kept contact with my mom. It's way better for my kids this way!
#27
Cows can remember human faces :)
Final score:
4points
Helen Rohrlach 2 years ago
Can confirm, they react differently to people they know and people they don't. Even out of smelling distance.
#28
99.9999999% of your body is just... empty space. There is literally nothing there, because your atoms are just tiny nuclei with even tinier electrons. And the universe as a whole? It's even more empty than THAT. We are barely here.
Final score:
4points
UpQuarkDownQuark 2 years ago
Almost. Atoms aren’t nuclei. The nuclei are made up of nucleons: protons and neutrons. The nucleus is surrounded by electrons. The nucleus and electron shell together make an atom. But you’re right about the empty space. For instance, this is why neutrinos are so hard to detect. Imagine a jumbo jet (proton and neutron nucleus) with a swarm of pigeons (electrons) spread out it around it, and the pigeons are miles away. If you shoot a billion BBs (neutrinos) at your giant, miles-across “atom”, you’re gonna hit empty space almost every time.
#29
Hippos and whales share an ancestor
Final score:
4points
UpQuarkDownQuark 2 years ago
And humans and hippos and whales and fungus and watermelons share an ancestor! 🙂
#30
The praying mantis is the only insect capable of turning its head! It can turn it a full 180 degrees and uses the ability to track prey. I didn’t believe this at first, it’s crazy that it’s the ONLY insect with this ability
Final score:
3points
#31
Life on earth is a serious anomaly as far as star systems go. For one, the star itself, or in this case, the sun, cannot be to big or too small. If it's too large, the star will explode before evolution can take place. If it's too small, solar flares will destroy any life before it has a chance. There is also the other planets in the system that play a role. We have Jupiter, which is large enough it protects earth from a lot of space debris due to its massive gravity. Then there's the planet itself. The habitable zone is only for if the atmosphere is the same as ours. Pressure differences and greenhouse gases, however, can affect the temperature. Both are determined by the planet's mass and composition. Then you have to get to the fact life developed and had to find a way to reproduce in the first place. It is highly unlikely, at least in my mind, that life exists elsewhere in the universe, and it's a miracle that we even exist at all.
Final score:
3points
#32
On Jupiter it rains diamonds :)
Final score:
2points
#33
The fig is first of all a flower (like all fruits). It attracts bumblebees. When a bumblebee comes to take its nectar, it closes in on it. And becomes a fruit. Since then, I no longer eat figs.
Final score:
1point
Margaret H 2 years ago
And the fig wasp escapes - it doesn't get entombed in the fig.
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Frances Pitchounetta (Submission author) 2 years ago
So it's not true? This reassures me because I love figs! Thank you Pandas!
#34
Spider blood is clear or a pale blue in color.
Final score:
1point
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