40 WTF facts so weird that you would like not to have seen them
Prepare to raise an eyebrow (or two).
Certainly, there are WTF facts around us. And if you are a curious person, you know first-hand that the more you learn, the narrower things get. But even for this to resist as much as possible on all the craziest things, the strangest and largest as our world has to offer.
OfIncredible antecedents antecedents Tofascinating scienceThese are the WTF facts that will bring you an eyebrow. Get ready to rethink everything you thought you would know.
Butterflies will drink your blood, sweat and tears.
If this is given the chance, even the most beautiful butterflies drank your body fluids. Butterflies do something called "mud fluid, "in which they root liquid pools (in many cases of mud, blood, fecal materials and other fun tips) to determine if they have nutrients they want. and spoiler: the human blood has A ton of precious nutrients. Any frightened, however, butterflies will not bite you like a vampire (although there is a kind of butterfly butterfly that will do it).
You probably understand only a nostril.
Eighty-five percent of people breathe onlya nostril at a time. And if you breathe exclusively from your nose, your automatic nervous system will naturally change the narmy that you use several times a day. Even more Crazier: The nostril you use can actually affect some of the processes of your body, blood glucose and oxygen production to which side of your brain is the most active.
LEGO is the largest global manufacturer (tiny) tires.
The preferred toy brand of each, Lego, productMore tires a year that any other tire manufacturer in the world by many. Of course, they can be toys, but Lego manufactures more than 318 million tires a year, which means more than 870,000 tires a day. In comparison, the second largest tire manufacturer, Bridgestone, represents only 190 million tires per year. And lucky for us, there is not a lot of harm if you accidentally walk on one.
Most mammals take the same time to pee.
Elephants to cats to toddlers humans, most mammals take about 21 seconds to pee.Researchers say Indeed, the urethra is scaled to be a "flow improvement device". Mammalian anatomy is built on a report; While an elephant has a much larger bladder, she has a long urethra to match. There are exceptions for mammals below 6.6 ounces, such as rats.
There are mites living on human faces - and you have some about yours right now.
Yes, there are tiny beings who live on your face. Microscopic follicle mites called Demodex make their homes in human eyelashes, eyebrows, pores and hair follicles, writesThe BBC. Demodex are tiny, eight-legged creatures, to the form of ver that are totally harmless. Nevertheless, there are definitely some things that will make you shudder. Yes, they lay eggs in your pores. No, they do not cocha at least while they are alive. Instead, they hold their waste inside their body and flow on your skin on their death. Seriously, WTF.
That "Wasabi" you get with your sushi order is not really Wasabi.
Do you know that the little green ball of delicious spicy supplied with your favorite sushi roll? It's probably not really Wasabi. In the United States, 99% of sushi restaurants actually serve a concoction based on horseback radish which is injected with the coloring of green foods, writes theWashington Post. True Wasabi is actually quite rare, even in Japan.
The corn flakes were invented to prevent masturbation.
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg was extremely pruded and thought that sex was an odious sin - he did not even sleep with his own wife. But in Kellogg's book, masturbation was even worse. His solution? Give people a healthy breakfast option. He believed thatcertain foods, like meat, increased sexual desire, while cereals and walnuts had the power to compromise it.
There is a jellyfish whose sting will inflict you with a feeling of imminent misfortune.
TheIrukandjiis a kind of jellyfish with a thumb, whose stings overcome the victims with a feeling of imminent misfortune. Some patients were so sure that they will die on the one hand a person who even asked them to their doctors to kill them. Irukandji's bites also invoke vomiting, headaches, anxiety and cramps. Although they are not fatal when given in the good medical, these bites are certainly no picnic.
Most cruise ships have their own morgue.
In addition to swimming pools, golf courses and jaw theaters, most cruise ships are also equipped with a morgue. If a passenger dies on board, the ship's crew must be able to tend to the body and store it until they arrive at the port. About200 people dieOn cruise ships each year. Just think about this next time you register to navigate paradise.
All Froot loops are the same flavor.
You may have thought that the pink curls were strawberry flavored, orange-flavored orange loops, etc. But the only significant difference is the color,discoveredTime. If you thought you had had a favorite, you misunderstood.
All human beings share 99.9% of the same genetic makeup.
Talking about things being the same thing, every human action 99.9% of theDNA. This means that you are only 0.1% different from the person you hate the most. On the other hand, this fact WTF means that you are also 0.1 percentage point to be oprah.
The word word "blue" is a relatively modern invention.
By studying literature, researchers determined that many old civilizations - including Greeks, Chinese, Japanese and Hebrews - did not have a word in their language to describe the blue color. In fact, the ancient Egyptians are the only people to expose evidence to perceive the color. This allows you to ask you which colors we do not yet have to discover. Be careful, you could be blocked by thinking about it for the rest of your life.
In 1939, Hitler once nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Yes, this Hitler. The same year as the Second World War started, Adolf Hitler was named for aNobel Prize of Peace. Apparently, the member of the Swedish Parliament who has designated him the intention of the appointment as a satirical critic in response to the appointment of the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. However, his satire was not well received. And fortunately, the appointment has been withdrawn. A WTF fact of history if there were one.
Frogs use their ocular globes to swallow.
Mother Nature gives us serious WTF facts. If you've ever seen a frog, close your eyes after he eats, it's not about blinking. AfterResearchers used The X-rays to observe frogs when they ate, they found that during swallowing, a frog retract its ocular globes to its esophagus to repel the food. Do not attempt this home.
The current American flag was designed by a 17-year-old school project.
In his junior year of high school, teen bob heftDesigned a 50 star flag For a class project. At the time, the United States had only 48 states and he got a less hamot for his work. But his prediction that two other states would soon be added to the Union, has proved to be true. Two years later, after writing 21 letters and made 18 calls to the White House, President Eisenhower called the boy to tell him that the country would adopt its design. They made it formalized on July 4, 1960.
White head eagles do not seem that you think they do.
It's time to ruin another patriotic symbol for you. When you think of a bald eagle, you probably think of a majestic creature with a powerful call. But the scream piercing that most people team up with the bird is actually the sound done by the red tailed hawk, used ubiquitouslyby Hollywood Because he has a great effect. Real bald eagles actually make more singing noise. Not quite inspiring.
The dead can still get erections.
It is so common for corpses to get erections, there is a term for that: "Lust Lust". This is most likely to occur after a sudden death in a vertical position or face. But that's not all. Muscle contractions that occur asrigor mortis Sets can even cause ejaculation. This could make clumsy funeral.
Your mobile phone has more germs than your toilet seat.
The next time you put your phone to your face, imagine that you put a cheek right on the porcelain throne.Scientists have found That cell phones carry more than 10 times the bacterium of a toilet seat. Once you have stopped thinking about all the places where your phone has been, it has a lot of sense. But never had a better motivation to wipe your phone every night.
The "D" in "D-Day" means "day".
You may have thought that "D" in "D-Day" stood for "death", "Doom" or any number of threatening words. But the truth is not as conducive. The "d" is actually a designation for the date on which an important military operation. So, by certain interpretations,D-day literally means "Day of day."
Urine Bearcat feels like buttered blown corn.
The next time you go into a cinema and your mouth starts in the water, you must know that you feel exactly the same perfume as the Urine de Bearcat. ThoseSouth-East Asian Mammals Cover their feet and tails in their unique urine smell of letting other Bearcats know their presence. That the urine contains the same compound, the 2-AP, found in the butter-blown corn. Delicious.
The Abraham Lincoln dog was also murdered.
President Abraham Lincoln had a yellow and mixed dog named Fido. (Who, by the way, some researchers say that's why the name is so popular.) One year after the president's assassination, Fido wasalso killed. The dog would have jumped on a drunk man sitting on a sidewalk. In an intoxicated rabies, the man stabbed the poor puppy.
Wombats cocked in cubes.
Nature has a lot of wonders and among them are the incrediblecubic piquers Wombats. This adorable animal depans its excrement in perfect cubes forms. The reasoning is not (like some suspect) because their burets are shaped like squares, but rather because of their long and slow digestive process. You never know, cube-shaped cellars could be the next big trend.
The traditional heart shape has been inspired by an old form of birth control.
Obviously, the hearts we cut for Valentine's Day cards are not anatomically correct. A theory on theOrigin of the form This came from silphium, a type of fennel that the old Greeks and Romans used for medicine, food aromatization and the most popular birth control. In fact, the plant is extinguished now because it used so many of them. The seeds of silhemence were formed as our modern heart and the city of Cyrene even put the form on its money.
A cockroach can live for weeks after his head has been cut off.
It probably makes you shudder of thinking, but cockroaches are ridiculously resilient. Because cockroaches have aOpen circulatory systemWhen a roach head is cut off, his body simply seals on the wound. With respect to breathing, they use tiny holes on all their body called Spiracles to breathe directly into the fabric, as well as cockroaches require much less food than we could last weeks before dying of hunger.
All mascots in the cereal box are down.
The next time you go to the cereal alley in your grocery store, pay attention to theEyes on the boxes. You will not be able to note that each mascot looks. The reason? So, they can have visual contact with children. By doing this, they catch the attention of children and make sense of trust, making children more likely to ask their parents to buy a box of cereals. A brilliant marketing strategy, or control of the mind? You decide where this WTF case falls.
Jelly beans are coated with insect secretions.
Most jelly beans (as well as candy corn) are covered withshellac, a substance made from the secretions of the Kerria Lacca female, an insect from Thailand. Often you will see that the Shellac is charged as "Glaze de confectionery" in the list of ingredients. That's what makes frozen beans so brilliant. Just keep that in mind the next time you reach the candy pot.
Humanity has fought about 17 hours quadrillions during human history.
The Medium Pet Human Being 14 times a day. So,Walrus Taken this statistic a step further and calculated that there were about 17 human pebject quadrillions during history. The next time you leave a tear, you will add in total.
In Victorian England, people took photographs with the corpses of their loved ones.
In the 19th century, mourning was fashionable and photography became more and more affordable. These combined factors led to the morbid practice of the photography of death. People have seen it as their final chance to have the resemblance of the deceased preserved,Written the BBC. In these troubling photos, the bodies often look like their sleep or flash.
A kiss transfers more than 80 million germs.
That's right, a study published in the newspaperMicrobiome I found that in a French kiss of 10 seconds, more than 80 million microbes are transferred between partners. How romantic! But before becoming too alarmed, scientists really think that the embracing could be designed to strengthen the immune system by sharing bacteria. So go ahead, smooch to the content of your heart, this one is a WTF fact that is totally harmless.
The bookstores give some people the desire to poop.
A Japanese expression called theMariko Aoki phenomenon Theoretizes that walking in a bookstore ignites the desire to defecate. The condition bears the name of a woman who mentioned it in a magazine article in 1985. Science has not yet discovered a limited reason as to why this happens. But if you have ever known the phenomenon of Mariko Aoki, know that you are not alone.
Scientists used to believe that there were small people inside sperm.
Fortunately, this idea has since been demystified, but the mental image will remain with you forever. Back in the 1600s, "preformationism" was a popular idea: the theory that living beings grow smaller versions of themselves, writtenScience. For this theory, people believed that there had been humans entirely trained in spermatozoa (or, according to which you speak, eggs). They also believed that each person was wearing all their future offspring with them and that the offspring has worn their future offspring with them, etc. This is the Russian nesting doll scenario of your worst nightmare.
Walt Disney has almost named the seven Nains Chesty, Tubby, Burpy, Seuy, Hickey, Wheezy and Terrible.
No, it's not a list of symptoms. These are the names Walt Disneyconsidered named The characters of Snow White and seven dwarves. Can you imagine the beautiful white snow happily dancing with a breath and hickey? This may have been another type of film.
When you see a shooting star, it might simply be a poop of astronaut.
Whencoca of astronaut is released in space, it burns with an effect a bit like a shooting star. This means that some of the amazing phenomena you saw in the night sky could simply not be astronauts that reveal their waste. Are the wishes made about the flying coca that has always become reality? Let's hope so.
Sea stars eat with their stomachs upside down.
Starfish, also called sea stars, eat mainly bivalves, like clams and mussels. When a starfishcaught upThe creature envelops his arms around the shell of his prey and greenhouse until the shell is slightly open. Then, the starfish pushes its stomach from its mouth (which is located on its underside) and in the shell of prey. After digeding the animal inside the shell, the starfish slides in his body in his body. We are pretty sure it has never happened to Patrick de Spongebob.
The US Navy uses military dolphins to help defend the largest stock of nuclear weapons in the world.
The fate of the world is in the hands (Er, the fins) of the dolphins. Kitsap Naval base is a marine base 20 miles from Seattle, which houses nearly a quarter of nuclear weapons in the country. It's high security, that's why theUS Navy formed Dolphins to defend the waters around the base. The animals are trained in San Diego during a program called Marine Mammals Program for the Space and Naval Warfare Systems (Shawar) command, which leads to dolphins and sea lions for service in the US Navy.
Fear can actually make your blood cold.
You probably heard about a "blood crier", but it's more than an expression. Inan experimentScientists have discovered that watching a horror film increased the coagulant in the blood of subjects. This increases the ability of blood to curb, which is probably a defense mechanism in anticipation of an attack.
The universe is officially colored "Cosmic Latte".
In 2002, scientists determined that all the light in the average universe was a slightly beige color they invented like "Cosmic latte."If you think the name sounds like that should be a Starbucks drink, you're right; Astronomer Peter Drum came with the name while sitting in a Starbucks article, reading an article on the experience and realized that the color was striking like that of his latte.
Bees make honey by regurgizing the nectar.
Some people think that honey is in a vomit bee, which is not exactly the case. Instead, the good treatment is created through theNectar registration. After a bee sucks the nectar of a plant, it stores it in its stomach. Then he regurge them into the mouth of another bee, repeating the process until the nectar finally tabled in a honeycomb. Bees then disappear the honeycomb with their wings to accelerate the evaporation process. Then they seal the comb with a secretion of their abdomen until he harden in the beeswax. This WTF is quite mild enough to eat.
Turtles breathed from their butts.
This is true, some freshwater turtles may expire their butts. It's aanatomical tactics Turtles use to conserve energy while hiring winters you need to do what you need to do.
A human hair head is strong enough to support 12 tons.
Your hair is stronger than you think. A single strand of hair can hold30 ouncesand an entire hair head can support 12 tons (which is about the size of two elephants.) The next time you go to the zoo, see if you will let you try it.