Summary:
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Life is unpredictable, with bizarre surprises from science, history, and nature challenging childhood science classes.
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Sneezing can briefly interrupt your heart rhythm, trees have an underground chat system, and lobsters are nearly immortal.
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Astronauts can’t cry in space, furniture phobia exists, and the pistol shrimp can create a mini sunburst.
Life is unpredictable, and some of the most unusual surprises are right under our noses. These most bizarre things have been quietly being done by science, history, and nature as we were merely minding our business. Strap on your seatbelt, as these ten startlingly amazing truths, all thoroughly tested and confirmed, will find you doubting all your childhood science classes.
Sneezing Stops
Once in a moment, once in a moment, you have two heartbeats when you sneeze. It does not make you stop altogether, but the shove in your chest in sneezing temporarily interrupts the usual electrical rhythm of your heart. And the next time someone tells you that you are blessed, they are, in fact, accepting a minor cardiac event. How oddly thoughtful.
Winking Trees
Plaque of trees in the woods do not simply stand there, pretty. They are also known to interrelate among themselves by underground fungal systems, whereby nutrients are shared and also warning signals could be sent by one tree when it is attacked. Otherwise, there is basically a group chat in your local forest; the trees have a century-old group chat, haven’t they?
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Leg Beard
No other hair grows on your body faster than beard hair. Assuming a man had never shaved his hair all his life, his beard should eventually become approximately 30 feet long. Approximately, that is the size of a school bus. It is information that nobody wanted, but there it is, rent-free residing in you.
Lobster Immortal
Lobsters do not even age like other creatures. They do not bear any traces of old age and continue to increase in size as time goes by. Scientists reckon that theoretically, lobsters would be able to live without a limit, provided that they were not being consumed or trapped. The dinner most favoured of all the ocean is, quite on the contrary, one of the closest things to immortality that can be conceived by nature.
Crying Astronauts
There is no proper crying in space among astronauts. Their eyes can easily make tears, but there is no force of gravity to push the drops down, and so the liquid only forms a sort of jelly-like ball of water at the eyeball. Space is, in itself, emotionally difficult enough, not to have your own tears cooperate with you.
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Furniture Fear
Official phobia of furniture exists. It is referred to as Kathisophobia, and it is a severe, unending phobia about sitting on chairs and sofas. Out in the woods, standup desk fans have unconsciously created full-scale lifestyle businesses out of a medically proven anxiety disorder. There is indeed a multitude in the wellness industry.
Loud Shrimp
The pistol shrimp is among the most vocal animals on Earth. It is an incredibly quick snap of its claw, such that it generates a cavitation bubble that is hotter than the surface of the sun for long enough. This small crustacean basically shoots a small sunburst to paralyse its victim. Minor and disastrously overachieving.
Lazy Eyebrows
It would take as long as four or six months to get your eyebrows to grow back again, had you shaved them down today. Meanwhile, eyelashes come back after a period of six weeks. No one can really value eyebrows until they disappear; when they come back, every photo is a bitter, permanent reminder of the choice.
Ancient Chewing
Chewing gum truly is so old. The archaeologists have discovered 10,000-year-old birch bark tar on which human tooth marks were left, indicating that prehistoric people were chewing to have fun or relieve their teeth when nobody had invented flavour. There was one way, unique and very surprising, in which early people were evidently very relatable.
Sand Surprise
The number of stars in the visible universe outnumbers grains of sand on all the beaches and deserts on Earth. This is innumerable, and human brains simply do not comprehend it. To be able to respond scientifically back to the universe the next time it seems overwhelming is just to know that this is indeed the scientifically correct response.
