You might fly, have a heavyweight boxing match with a crocodile, or watch all your loved ones leave you. Dreams sure can be weird. Although everyone dreams, it’s an extremely poorly understood aspect of our lives. As such, it’s no wonder that what we do know about dreams is as strange as the dreams themselves …
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The annual Nobel Prize ceremony hands awards to the highest achievements in science and culture. The Ig Nobel Prize ceremony doesn’t. Instead, this annual tongue-in-cheek award ceremony recognizes some of the strangest and funniest science of the year. It’s not all about laughs, though — the organizers firmly believe that highlighting unusual science gets people …
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If you’re here for more bottlenose dolphin facts, buckle up. When dolphins inhale, they exchange about 80% of the contents of their lungs. (In contrast, humans exchange about 17% of the air in the lungs while breathing.) Dolphins don’t make any noise out of their mouth and don’t even have vocal cords. All the sounds …
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Do you know these bottlenose dolphin fun facts? Like a dolphin’s brain is bigger than a human’s brain? Dolphins hair is called lanugo, and they develop this hair shortly after their born. They eventually shed this hair. Dolphins only get one set of teeth for life. (Whereas humans get a set of baby teeth and …
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If you know these shark fun facts, share something new with us! Hammerhead sharks have a blind spot directly above and below their heads. A shark’s teeth are as sharp as razor blades and can basically cuts through anything. The biggest shark in the ocean is the whale shark. Basking sharks are the world’s second …
When a domestic pig gets on the loose and does the hanky-panky with a wild boar, you end up with a wild pig. Also called feral pigs, they live like wild animals, looking much like domestic pigs except with the coarse hair of a boar. And they have blue flesh. At least if you’re in …
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Good assistants are hard to find. That’s especially true if you’re a scientist working in an advanced field, like virology. In this sense, John Lednicky, Ph.D., is very lucky. His assistant has helped him discover two viruses previously unknown to science. This is particularly impressive considering that his helper hasn’t even graduated from high school. …
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Have you seen the movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button? If you haven’t, you should. It’s a great story of a man who is born old and ages backwards. Recently, a newborn baby pulled off the “being born old” part in reality. Thaddeus Daniel Pierce was born on July 26. At the moment of …
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Everybody farts. Or so you’d think, but some animals actually do not. For the longest time, sloths were believed to be among the animals that do not toot. Everybody (or at least people who think about sloth farts) believed the sluggish tree dwellers’ incredibly slow metabolism simply didn’t produce enough gas. Now, that all has …
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Do you know these profound pig facts? Like piglets are born to walk and run? On average, a sow will give birth about twice a year. Pigs spend a third of the day sleeping. Pigs are the only animals in medical history to have successfully donated whole organs to human beings. (A pig’s heart is …
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