Here is a list of fun and less fun facts and tidbits about food, animals and humans. You may also be amazed at some of the facts.
Facts and Facts:
About nutrition:
- There are also square melons
- Cheese seems to make women want to have sex more quickly
- A British chip manufacturer has come up with beer flavored chips
- The current record Eating Hot Dogs is in the name of a Japanese
- Chewing gum improves thinking ability by 20%
- You can also think better during exercise (this is due to the increased oxygen level in the brain during exercise)
- Most of the healthy substances in an apple are in the skin
About animals:
- Ants count the steps they take
- There is an ant that can eat humans
- An ant only breathes once every 2 minutes
- A certain type of snake can change color, just like an iguana
- In seahorses, not the female becomes pregnant, but the male
- The smallest fish on earth is less than 8mm
- Live lobsters are blue in color (they turn red during cooking)
- The stripes of a zebra provide cooling
- There are organisms that are still alive at temperatures above 100 degrees
- Mice sing to the females when they want to mate
- The South African Giant Earthworm can grow up to 6.7 meters in length
- The sailfish is the fastest fish in the world (highest measured speed is 109 km / h)
- Despite the giraffe having such a long neck, it has just as many cervical vertebrae as we do
- An octopus has 3 hearts
- Cuttlefish can get an erection
- A salamander can regrow missing limbs
- There are squids that show some form of transvestism
- The North American Star Nose Mole can recognize and eat prey within 120 milliseconds
- A sloth only needs to go to the toilet once a week
- All prawns are male in their first year of life
- The sex organs of the snail are in their head
- Furthermore, snails are both male and female at the same time (they are ambiguous)
- Sea turtles can find their way using the magnetic field here on Earth
- The Peregrine Falcon is the fastest animal on Earth (can reach speeds of 180 km / h)
- Some animals go into summer sleep
- The polar bear does not get its color from its hair. They are hollow and transparent
- Bulls are almost completely color blind (and yet we give them a red rag)
- Herring communicate with each other by farting
- Dolphins and whales never fully sleep (their brain hemispheres take turns sleeping)
- The most poisonous animal on earth is a 1 gram frog (a yellow-black frog)
- Only the females bite mosquitoes
- Mosquitoes have small teeth
About humans:
- Pregnancy seems to make women smarter
- You only breathe through one nostril at a time
- Once upon a time there was someone who survived a cardiac arrest of 4 hours
- There is a device that allows blind people to see with their tongues
- People who juggle have big brains
- Musicians also have bigger brains
- Most drugs only work in 30 to 50% of the population
- Better to get your nose up than to blow your nose
- The left lung is smaller than the right lung
- Everyone thinks that the heart is on the left, but actually it is in the middle
- When you’re hungry it’s not your stomach rumbling, but your small intestine wiping itself clean.
- By eating breakfast you reduce the risk of obesity
- The prescribed minimum sleep per night of 8 hours is actually not as healthy as people say: It turns out that people who sleep shorter often live longer
- Tea helps with bad breath problems
- The Dutch are on average the tallest person
- Not in Asia, but in Zaire (Africa) on average the smallest people live (men grow to an average of 1.37 meters, women 1.35 meters)
- The Thai medicine man Ho Sateow has the record ‘the longest hair ever’ to his name: 5.15 meters! After falling ill from a hairdressing visit, he decided never to cut his hair again.
