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

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.

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.

My favourite ones (yes I’m weird) is that birds can’t pass gas, and that herring communicate by passing gas :D

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

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.

There is something called transgenerational or intergenerational trauma.

Cows can remember human faces :)

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.

Hippos and whales share an ancestor

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

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.

On Jupiter it rains diamonds :)

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.

Spider blood is clear or a pale blue in color.

snow is the whitest natural material on earth. charcoal being the darkest one. this is measured with the power of light reflection