11.
Picasso and Alice Cooper were pen pals.
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Woodpeckers tongues wrap around their skulls to prevent them getting concussions.
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People live closer in time to T Rex than T rex lived to stegosaurus.
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Apple seeds DO NOT yield the same apple it came from… every apple seed yields a completely unique apple. If you want the exact same apple, you have to cut a branch off the existing apple tree and graft in onto another tree
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The smell grass emits after it is getting cut actually has quite the purpose: it’s supposed to mark whoever hurt the plant so that predators of the animal would eventually start to associate the smell with prey. Therefore grass is literally trying to kill us once you start hurting it.
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Fathers can breastfeed..no meds or other intervention needed…in times of stress, mostly after the death of the mother in childbirth. Father’s have attempted to breastfeed and, boom. Start producing viable milk. It’s has been documented a non trivial amount of times..
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Axolotls can regenerate anything as long as they stay within their original climate and pool of water. If they stay outside of it or the pool changes chemicals, they become salamanders that can’t regenerate anymore. I’m really hoping scientists will be able to clone their dna and start utilising that regeneration genome for people in need of regeneration therapy.
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Neil Armstrong backwards is Gnorts Mr. Alien
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The brain is the only thing that we know of that has named itself.
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Pineapple contains bromelain.
Bromelain is an enzyme that fulfills a proteolytic function, it degrades proteins producing amino acids that make it up.
So that stinging you feel when you eat pineapple is because the pineapple is also eating you.