Hey Pandas, What's An Interesting Or Creepy Science Fact You Know? (Closed)

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:
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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'.

Studies have found that people with arthritis and/or vertigo can sense changes in weather.

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)

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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)

Humans can smell rain 3x better than sharks can smell blood

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.

Pineapple contains an enzyme called bromelain, when you eat pineapple, this enzyme digests protein in your body; it eats you back!

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.

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 )

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.

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).

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)_/¯

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.