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WHOA-A-A! Zap has picked his favourite facts.
Some make you laugh. Some make your brain itch. All of them are worth a whoa.
ZAP’S FAVOURITES
- ZAP SAYS Three hearts, blue blood, AND the main heart stops every time it swims. Octopuses don't even have to follow our rules.
DID YOU KNOW? An octopus has three hearts and blue blood. 2 min read - ZAP SAYS On Neptune, the weather forecast is diamonds. Real, sparkling, hail-storm diamonds - falling forever into an ocean of liquid jewels.
DID YOU KNOW? Diamond rain falls on Neptune and Uranus. 2 min read - ZAP SAYS Cleopatra lived closer to today than to the building of the Pyramids. To her, they were already ancient tourist ruins.
DID YOU KNOW? Cleopatra lived closer in time to us than to the building of the pyramids. 2 min read - ZAP SAYS A six-inch shrimp throws a punch as fast as a bullet - and briefly boils the water around its fist. Tiny boxer, big problem.
DID YOU KNOW? A mantis shrimp punches as fast as a speeding bullet. 2 min read - ZAP SAYS A bolt of lightning is FIVE times hotter than the surface of the Sun. That's why thunder sounds so angry.
DID YOU KNOW? A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the Sun. 2 min read - ZAP SAYS Tiny chubby water bears shrugged off the open vacuum of space. Boiling, freezing, radiation - nothing fazes them.
DID YOU KNOW? Tardigrades can survive in the vacuum of space. 2 min read - ZAP SAYS Wombats poop perfect cubes. Up to a hundred a night, stacked like little dice. Nature said: why not?
DID YOU KNOW? Wombats do cube-shaped poop. 1 min read - ZAP SAYS Those tiny T. rex arms? Each one could curl over 400 pounds. They look silly - and they're thicker than a bodybuilder's bicep.
DID YOU KNOW? T. rex's tiny arms could still lift a refrigerator. 2 min read - ZAP SAYS Sharks were already cruising the oceans before trees existed. Older than dinosaurs. Older than Saturn's rings.
DID YOU KNOW? Sharks have been swimming the oceans longer than trees have existed. 2 min read - ZAP SAYS Archaeologists found honey in a 3,000-year-old Egyptian tomb - still good to eat. The only food that just refuses to go bad.
DID YOU KNOW? Honey is one of the very few foods that almost never spoils. 1 min read - ZAP SAYS A blue whale's heart weighs as much as a small car - and its main blood vessel is wide enough for a kid to crawl through.
DID YOU KNOW? A blue whale's heart is the size of a small car. 1 min read - ZAP SAYS The loudest sound ever recorded was Krakatoa in 1883 - heard 4,800 km away, and the shockwave circled Earth four times.
DID YOU KNOW? When Krakatoa erupted in 1883 it made the loudest sound in modern history. 2 min read - ZAP SAYS A real fungus hijacks an ant's brain, marches it up a leaf, then bursts out of its head. Zombies are already here - just very small.
DID YOU KNOW? A fungus called Cordyceps turns ants into zombies before killing them. 2 min read - ZAP SAYS You share about half your DNA with a banana. Half. Same planet, same toolkit - we're just rearranged fruit.
DID YOU KNOW? Humans and bananas share many of the same basic genes. 2 min read - ZAP SAYS If you fell into a black hole, gravity would stretch you into a one-atom-wide noodle. Scientists actually call it 'spaghettification'.
DID YOU KNOW? Falling into a black hole would stretch you like spaghetti. 2 min read
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