Hey everybody. Everybody loves random facts, right? So I've created this topic to discuss about them.
They must be interesting and real (no need to cite sources, but they must be real) and (according to the AG rules) they must have 7 or more words.
Let me begin.
In England a woman named Ceejay Epton (age 22) decided to change her name after her son was born. The reason: she wanted to help the baby to learn the alphabet faster. Then she changed her name to
"Ceejay A Apple B Boat C Cat D Dog E Elephant F Flower G Goat H House I Igloo J Jellyfish K Kite L Lion M Monkey N Nurse O Octopus P Penguin Q Queen R Robot S Sun T Tree U Umbrella V Violin W Whale X X-Ray Y Yo-yo Z Zebra Terryn Feuji-Sharemi"
She got the idea from a friend that wanted to be named "Pink" and decided to change her name too.
The good news is that on England, the name changing process is easy and costs £10
Jellyfish actually have a hydra effect where if you kill them in the water, their reproductive juices (gross) spread out in the water and grow into knew jellyfishes. Also, there is a certain species of jellyfish that can revert itself to a pupa stage to reverse it's aging so that it will never die. And the Portuguese Man of War is about 99% water, but it is still around the size of an umbrella.
A man in Canada died by falling 24 stories off his office: he was showing some new employees that the glass was unbreakable and the glass popped out of its frame...
A chinese man named Sun Yongding managed to swim for 1800 metres (about 1.1 miles) with wrists and ankles tied up. According to the briton newspaper Metro, he managed to swim 500 meters in 10 minutes (considering he didn't used his hands or foots and that the world record of the 400 metres is 3min40sec, that is unbelievable!).
There's a parasite called Toxoplasma Gondii which breeds in cats' stomaches. In order to get there, they infect rats, and does some kinda brainwashing stuff to them, to make them drawn to cats, rather than afraid of them. MIND CONTROL IN REAL LIFE! OH NOES!
There's also a parasite, called Dicrocoelium dendriticum, that lives in sheeps or cattles. The eggs in the faeces are eaten by snails, and develop to small worms; those get rejected in small slime balls, that are in turn eaten by ants. Now the best comes: all the parasites settle in the body of the ant, and only one goes in a brain; there it changes the behaviour of the ant so that at night, it goes up on grass tips in order to be eaten by sheeps or cattles. If it doesn't, the ant turns normal for the day and in the night goes up the grass again, each night until it gets eaten. The one parasite that went in the brain won't survive, it kinda sacrificed itself so that all the others reach the final host. ZOMBIE ANTS! OH NOES!! Crazy
And the Portuguese Man of War is about 99% water, but it is still around the size of an umbrella.
Aaaaaand it is not a single jellyfish, but an organized agglomerate of thousands of polyps with different tasks.
The sunfish has parasites in it's mouth that eat bacteria. It can be found in Alaska and will float to the surface and lay on it's side sunbathing, hence the name sun fish
Oh, this is perfect for me! I have a bunch of random information that doesn't seem useful. :P --------------------------------------------------------------------- In many central U.S. states, it is illegal to whale.
Termites cannot digest wood. They have a special bacteria that does it for them.
Termites also have a major effect on climates; they released methane, which traps heat (like CO2, except much more powerful).
Bananas grow upward. Their stems form at a point on the bunch, and the banana grows up from there!
The Earth is heading for another ice age. However, it isn't expected to be here for another 150,000 years. --------------------------------------------------------------------- I may return with more!
