Fun facts!!!

The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that a trained expert would have trouble telling them apart, even if using a microscope.

When you look up at the sky and see white dots flying around, you're actually looking at your own white blood cells.

I've always wondered what those dots were. Hmm....

When a person who is allergic to gluten eats something with gluten in it, it actually causes their body to attack itself on the inside.

Spiders are actually not insects, due them having eight legs instead of six.
I don't know what they really arem though. xD

@ Mustafa

Spiders (order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom


Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

Got that from Wikipedia about spiders.   

Oh okay, thanks for telling. o;



Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times. xD

Eww. Eww. And...

Did you know that being afraid of spiders, snakes, heights, ect. can be genetic. If one of your ancestors/very distant relatives had a traumatic experience with, say, a snake, like being bitten by one, and you're afraid of snakes, then it could be genetic. I found this very weird when I heard it on the news the other day, but 'experts say' that it's true. Phobias can be passed down through genes if trauma occurred.

That is good to know.

Elephants are the only mamals that can't jump.

I remember reading an article about that genetics thing Fyre! Pretty cool but creepy too. :'D

Listening to repetitive music (as in, same beat and tune for five minutes) can supposedly reduce your IQ.

No! My precious IQ points!

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, played the tuba as a boy.

within 5 years every atom in your body will have been replaced, and when you touch someone (say give them a hug) you exchange atoms... so in a way you'll still have a little bit of that person with you

Awww, need to hug my boyfriend more. <3 :'D


Hippos can't swim, they actually walk on the ground when being under water.
But elephants can however swim. :'D

Hugging can lower stress and increase trust (and a chemical that controls your happiness, forgot its name), so the longer you hug, the happier you feel.


(Or looking someone directly into their eyes for more than 20 seconds can mean either you like them or you want to kill them. The more you know~)

(Pupil dilation can also be an indicator that they like you)

Now I'm definitely going to stare at someone in the eye for longer than 20 seconds just to make them paranoid >:3 mwhahah

Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants. D:

(That atom exchanging thing is sorta sweet and a bit creepy, Glad. And Ailis, that eye contact thing is really cool---and weird. I should tell people that and then stare deeply into there eyes just to bother them.)

The oldest living domestic cat on record lived to be 31 years old.

(Psst, if you see their pupils dilate or are bigger than normal, you've got an admirer. ;D I tried the staring thing with a friend, and I broke off at 17. Too. Much. Tension!)

Mercury can cause Alzheimer's.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. ;D

Next time I see someone bang their head against a wall, I should ask if they're working out.

When driving, you burn two calories every thirty seconds.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
Weeeeeeeird~ o3o

To tell a ladybug's age in years, all you have to do is count its spots.

I knew that! o;

Starfish don't have brains.

Some box jellyfish have begun to develops internal organs.

There's a type of jellyfish that is virtually immortal. When it's threatened, it will attach itself to a surface and become a giant blob of cells rebuilding themselves as new ones (nerves become muscles, etc.). However, this is only for mature jellyfish, and those still young are still able to die.

Butterflies taste with their feet. o;

All hail the immortal jellyfish!

Giraffes have blackish-purplish tongues, while almost every other mammal has a pink tongue.