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It all started a couple of months ago while arguing with my Let's Get Sciencey brother in arms, Marco. The subject? How many Eiffel Towers deep is the ocean?
Of course, we Googled and "mathed" our way to the answer.
After that, we kept looking for more random science facts to feed our awkward personalities that rely only on weird bits of trivia when put in the awful situation of attending a party.
The hardest thing for us was to find at least one genuine scientific source to back up the facts we found, so, after filtering all our information, arguing like two bitter old ladies, and continuously raising our standards, we gathered 100 weird science facts.
However, ain't nobody got time to read 100 facts. So we selected our favorite 29 and illustrated them, just to prove how freaking ridiculous they are.
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#1
The Aspidocelis Uniparens lizards are all females. There are no males as they don't need them for reproduction.
Final score:
125points
Dynein 5 years ago
I've heard about them and just checked some more facts on wikipedia. Just as I remembered, these lizards still need a stimulus - "pseudo-copulation", i.e. one female humps anther. An interesting fact that I didn't know is that they're triploid - they don't have two (like pretty much any other animal), but three sets of chromosomes. Which explains why they don't reproduce sexually. Normally, a zygote gets half of the total number of chromosome sets from each of the parents. But you can't really do that with three sets, you'd either get gametes with a different number of sets, meaning the offspring might be di-, tri-,or tetraploid (which doesn't work within one animal species), or both gametes would only get half of one of the sets - that would be even worse.
#2
Some Northern Cardinals are half female, half male, with their bodies colored half red on the male side and brown on the female side.
Final score:
104points
#3
There's a volcano in Guatemala that erupts every hour. It's been doing so for over a century.
Final score:
101points
#4
Hyenas are closer related to cats than dogs.
Final score:
99points
#5
Beta Mandrils gain bigger testicles, more colors on their face, and the ability to reproduce only after winning a fight.
Final score:
89points
#6
You can make whiskey out of diabetic person's urine. That's how much sugar it contains.
Final score:
82points
#7
Phobias are caused by memories passed down genetically from our ancestors.
Final score:
81points
#8
The world's fasted land animal ever recorded was a cheetah named ... Sarah.
Final score:
78points
Note Worthy 5 years ago
The also taught her to fetch. Thats why the area is named Sarah-getty.
#9
Songbirds are into voyeurism.
Final score:
76points
#12
Raccoons see with their hands. Actually, they use their sense of touch to locate their food and are able to differentiate between objects at night only with their paws.
Final score:
67points
#13
A man called Charles Osborne spent 68 years of his life hiccuping. He died one year after they stopped.
Final score:
65points
#14
Sometimes Komodo dragon females mate with their male offsprings. They're also capable of reproducing without males.
Final score:
62points
Vernice Aure 5 years ago
Well, considering the the bacterial load in their mouths, it must be hard to get a mate. Talk about dragon breath...
#15
Peanuts are legumes, not nuts. So technically speaking, people that are allergic to peanuts are actually allergic to legumes, not nuts.
Final score:
61points
#16
Apples float because they're 23% air.
Final score:
61points
#17
The country with the most tornadoes per square mile is ... the United Kingdom.
Final score:
61points
#18
Naked mole rats live in colonies with a single queen giving birth to all the workers.
Final score:
57points
#19
Violin bows are only made from horse hair.
Final score:
55points
#20
Fruit flies use poop to attract their mates.
Final score:
54points
#21
The orange existed for 200 years before the color orange.
Final score:
53points
#22
Polar bears are cannibals.
Final score:
53points
Christina Sersif 5 years ago
Considering their lack of resources and how it continues to dwindle, this doesn't surprise me. It's all about survival.
#23
There's a species of horned screeching birds called ... the horned screamers. They're as terrifying as they sound.
Final score:
52points
#24
Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong littered the moon's surface with over 100 pieces of trash.
Final score:
48points
#25
The Alps formed after the dinosaurs went extinct.
Final score:
41points
Lucinda Overhoussen 5 years ago
The meteorite landed just off the coast of Mexico. If it had hit deep water or land, the dinosaurs would not have been wiped out and the earth would still be the land of the dinosaurs.
#26
The ocean is eleven Eiffel Towers stacked on top of each other deep (3,682.2 meters).
Final score:
39points
Ahnnah Newell 5 years ago
not all parts of the ocean are that freakin' deep, so which one do you mean?!
#27
Great apes are incapable of telling the difference between musical genres.
Final score:
34points
#28
Lobsters and jellyfish are immune to the passing of time. Sadly, they're not protected from disease of injury.
Final score:
32points
pete stringer 5 years ago
This is technically incorrect, Lobsters can repair their own DNA (by regrowing the materials that maintain it called telomerase ) there is a lot of research into it, HOWEVER nature prevents immortal crustaceans in a rather cruel way. While they can theoretically get larger and larger as time passes assuming they avoid danger and disease, eventually they get so big that to shed their old shell for the newer one to accommodate their size they aren't able to physically ingest the energy required and either die crushed in their own shell, or via the variety of issues arising from being unable to make the change due to dietary limitations. (at one point their stomach not allowing enough food to convert to the energy required to shed etc) - most however do not live to be large enough for this to be an issue due to fishing and dangers of being so large. Largest one recorded weighed: 51.5 lbs (23.36 kg)
and was caught in Maine, USA in 1926. Largest-Lo...294772.jpg 
#29
The most dangerous animal in the world is ... the common house fly.
Final score:
30points
Just a Purpler 5 years ago
I'd be curious to see the citations for this, I've been told and seen research showing mosquitoes are the most dangerous.
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Ahnnah Newell 5 years ago
there are some cool facts, but some I just do not believe in because there is no possible way for humans to know certain things.
Ocean Eevee 5 years ago
¨Nothing is impossible, but that doesn´t mean it´ll happen.¨
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Ahnnah Newell 5 years ago
there are some cool facts, but some I just do not believe in because there is no possible way for humans to know certain things.
Ocean Eevee 5 years ago
¨Nothing is impossible, but that doesn´t mean it´ll happen.¨
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