What is your favourite fact?
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I don’t know if this counts, considering the community’s name, but here goes:
In the Philippines, there exists:
- an island
- in a lake
- on an island
- in a lake
- on an island
and I, for some reason, think this is amazingly interesting :)
many species of conifer require fire to propagate - the high heat releases the seeds from their protective enclosure. this is why forest fires are beneficial to some forest environments
We’re made from star dust :)
Tardigrades (water bears) are well known to be extremophiles which survive pretty much anything. But they actually contain a unique protein called Dsup, for damage suppressor, which can increase the resistance DNA to damage by binding to it and acting as a barrier from ionizing radiation for example. If it can be proved safe for humans it could help with deep-space missions and help humanity travel further!
So we’re going to cross humans and tardigrades!?
Where do I signup? My Marvel name will be “The beneficial master and overlord of the entire universe” or “Bemaovenun” on my business card.
I’m full of weird facts i learned over the years actually. So, another one: wombats have cube shaped poop.
The distance between the Earth and the Moon is 30 times the width of the Earth.
Did you also know that you can fit every other planet (including Pluto!) in that space?