- as of 2023, only 30% of the seafloor on earth has actually been mapped
- as we currently understand it, only 5% of the known universe is matter we can actually observe
- babies can crawl all the time without suffering yet adults generally suffer when we try to crawl on our knees because the kneecap is entirely soft cartilage when we're born
- chainsaws were originally invented to assist in childbirth
- children can drown in as little as one inch of water
- despite that there are (approximately) at least one billion stars in the milky way galaxy and (approximately) one trillion stars in the andromeda galaxy, space is so incredibly vast that it's actually unlikely that any of the stars will collide with one another when the galaxies merge
- even if we do somehow manage to save the earth from all of the harm caused by humanity, if humankind itself intends to carry on to infinity, it will have to abandon the earth someday anyway because the earth is eventually going to be consumed by the sun; therefore, should humanity survive that long to begin with, except for whatever we may manage to take with us when we evacuate the planet, everything that's ever been created or constructed by the planet itself and humankind alike is going to be utterly erased from existence
- fungi are genetically more closely related to animals than plants
- humans see a very limited amount of colors compared to some other creatures on earth, but that means that everything on earth is already all of those tons of other colors, we just can't perceive them. the world is so much more colorful than we can fathom, how many other colors are actually displayed in objects that seem only one color or few colors to us? how overwhelming it would be to suddenly see everything in every color that actually exists rather than only the few our human eyes have only ever been able to perceive
- magenta as a color doesn't actually exist, it has no corresponding wavelength on the light spectrum
- printer ink is worth more money per ounce than human blood
- roughly 60% of our human bodies are composed of water, which is the greatest solvent on the planet
- strawberries are not botanically berries, but things like watermelon, bananas, and chili peppers are
- the extreme toxicity of the blue ringed octopus's venom isn't necessarily what makes them so fearsome, its that their bite is virtually undetectable and it causes paralysis of the diaphragm, so one generally wouldn't realize one has been bitten until the paralysis sets in and makes one unable to signal one needs help, so for all the toxicity, generally it would cause one to simply suffocate in a few minutes rather than some other long, excruciating type of painful death caused by a venom injection
- the only reason the sky appears blue to humans is because of the way our eyes process light, based on the actual light spectrum and photon scattering in the atmosphere, the sky is actually violet
- the only reason we perceive time is because of light
- the spinal cord is the consistency of toothpaste
- the way plants eat light
- the way fingers and toes are solid bone that branch out at the ends of our limbs like trees
- there are most likely more trees on earth than stars in the milky way galaxy
- there are plants that have learned to emit heat and mimic the smell of rotting flesh
- there is a symbiotic relationship between certain species of wasps and figs in which the figs, in a sense, "grow" wasps and a fig may frequently have digested wasp corpses in order to bear the ripe fruit and seeds
- there's no real reason for the alphabet to be in the order that it's in despite that it's one of the most prevalent blueprints for organization
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