Ten Things That Are True But Hard To Believe
Reversing yesterday's theme...
1. You are mostly empty space
If you removed all the space from the atoms in your body, you’d be a tiny speck smaller than a grain of rice.
2. Bananas are berries. Strawberries aren’t
Botanically, bananas meet the criteria of berries. Strawberries don’t because their seeds are on the outside.
3. Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood
Two pump blood to the gills, one to the body. Their copper-based blood is blue.
4. You started as a single cell smaller than a grain of salt
And that cell contained the full blueprint to make you.
5. A day on Venus is longer than its year
It rotates so slowly that it completes one full spin in 243 Earth days—but orbits the sun in 225.
6. There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way
Estimated: 3 trillion trees vs. ~100–400 billion stars.
7. Sharks are older than trees
Sharks have existed for over 400 million years. Trees came around about 350 million years ago.
8. You can smell rain
The scent is called petrichor, caused by oils from plants and a compound called geosmin released by soil-dwelling bacteria.
9. Wombat poop is cube-shaped
The unique shape helps it stay in place and mark territory.
10. The Eiffel Tower grows taller in summer
Heat causes the metal to expand, increasing its height by up to 6 inches (15 cm).
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