Bizarre Facts That Sound Fake but Are Totally True

Summary:

• The world is full of mind-blowing facts that challenge ordinary beliefs about animals, planets, food, and our bodies.

• Octopuses have three hearts, bananas are botanically berries, honey never spoils, and wombats produce cube-shaped poop.

• Sharks existed before trees, a day on Venus is longer than its year, and some turtles can breathe through their rear ends.

The world is full of mind-blows and mind-benders too fantastic to exist, but science, history and close observation bring it to pass each and every time. The facts are usually shocking to people due to surprising them in reference to our ordinary beliefs about animals, planets, food and even our body. 10 proven examples that look totally invented but are also documented and factual are.

Octopuses Have Three Hearts

The octopuses have three hearts that pump the blood into the gills so as to draw oxygen and the third one circulates the blood into the other body parts. The octopus is able to prevent the systemic heart isochronic because of swimming, hence their survival is through crawling consumption of energy and oxygen.

Bananas Are Botanically Berries

Banana is considered a berry, in the strict sense of the botanical classification as it grows on a flower having one ovary and the seeds being embedded in the flesh. In the meantime, strawberries, which most people refer to as berries, are actually aggregate accessory fruits, and are not berries as such.

Honey Never Spoils

Honey extracted in ancient Egyptian tombs dating farther than 3,000 years ago has been subjected to tests and was not diminished in any way. Its low water levels, high acidity and natural ability to produce hydrogen peroxide have designed an unfavorable environment to bacteria, mold and yeast thus leaving it to last indefinitely when it is kept properly.

Wombats Produce Cube-Shaped Poop

Among other things, the Australian wombats are the only animals with cube like feces. The form is produced through the difference in elasticity in various portions of their intestines. This makes the droppings remain in one spot on the rocks and the logs to have territorial marking that cannot roll off.

Sharks Existed Before Trees

The earliest sharks were found in the fossil record 450 million years ago in the Silurian. The earliest known trees, like Archaeopteris, did not evolve until about 385-350 million years ago in the Devonian period, that is, at a time when forests were tens of millions of years old sharks were floating in the oceans.

A Day on Venus Is Longer Than Its Year

The rotation of Venus on its axis is very slow at approximately 243 earth days to complete one full rotation (a day). It takes it only 225 earth days (a year) to complete one rotation around the Sun, so a day on Venus takes longer than one year around the Sun.

There Are More Trees on Earth Than Stars in the Milky Way

In 2015 a study carried out around the world estimated about 3.04 billion trees that exist on Earth. The Milky Way galaxy is believed to have up to 100-400 billion stars, that is, our planet must have much more trees than all the stars in the galaxy.

Some Turtles Can Breathe Through Their Rear Ends

Some freshwater turtles such as the Australian Fitzroy river turtle and certain species of softshell turtles are able to respire cloacally. They can absorb oxygen through direct intake in blood vessels in their cloaca (their excretion and reproduction orifice) when submerged such that they can remain underwater during hibernation at long periods.

Water Can Boil and Freeze at the Same Time

At the exact triple point of water -0.01deg C (32.018deg F) and 611.657 pascals of pressure- water can exist freely together as solid ice, liquid water and water vapor. During this unusual condition, it is able to change to boil (to a gas) and to change to solid at the same point in time.

Your Body Contains More Bacterial Cells Than Human Cells

Microbiome studies give more recent estimates that the total number of cells of bacteria on and in the average human body is approximately 3.8 x 1013 (38 trillion) or 30 trillion, with an equal number of human cells, approximately 3.0 x 1013 (30 trillion) cells. Although a ratio is closer to 1:1 to compare with older claims of 10:1, bacteria still slightly outnumber human cells, playing important roles in the digestion, the immune system and health.