Giggle all you want, but semen is an essential part of life on Earth. Without it, none of us would be — barring anyone or anything born from some weird lab experiment. But there’s more to semen than making babies. Over the years, people how found a whole bunch of inventive uses for semen, both …
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It really must suck being a celebrity — wherever you go, there’ll be somebody gawking at you with a camera to catch your every move. But as it usually goes with these things, it can get worse. Law experts are now warning that paparazzi — or just plain old weirdoes — might soon be after …
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Just last week we reported on a dead hamster that saved a Singaporean man from death row. Had it been one of these hamsters, it probably would’ve gnawed the man to death on its own. In what sounds like the plot of a B-class horror movie, scientists were messing with the genome of Syrian hamsters. …
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Does your mother dearest have a habit of reminding you how difficult parenthood is? Tell her what it’s like for an octopus mother and she just might stop. We’ve written quite a lot about strange and unusual reproductive habits animals engage in. But even in this crowd, the octopus takes things to a whole another …
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There’s a disease spreading amongst scallops in the depths of the oceans. But this isn’t some deadly new virus or anything of the sort. It’s just an outbreak of disco fever. It turns out that scallops are attracted to flashing lights just as a ‘70s boogie fanatic is attracted to the disco ball. The discovery …
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Did you read The Oddest Fun Facts You Didn’t Know About Planet Earth: Part One? Because this is part two, and a whole bunch of additional odd Earth facts. Two Moons The Earth once had two moons. Planetary scientologist Erik Asphaug along with postdoctoral researcher Martin Jutzi, at the University of California Santa Cruz, conducted …
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Have you ever thought dating is way too difficult? Well, at least you don’t (usually) have to worry about him defecating all over you or her ripping your face off. But in the animal kingdom, both of those possibilities are roughly just as likely. But the scariest part is that the other party just might …
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We live here, eat here, and breathe here, but how much do we not know about Planet Earth? Here are a bunch of fun facts to make your day. The Earth is Kinda Small Well, really small, when you compare it to the sun. A whopping 1.3 million Earths could fit inside the sun. Wow! …
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Paying attention to traffic is important for staying safe on the road, both for your sake and others’. But as we’re sure you know, some people could stand to be reminded of that fact. That’s why local authorities often put up traffic safety signs. You know, those big billboards that tell you to slow down, …
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Some fungi are delicious when cooked, but other are less nice. That’s especially a case with those that infest still-living creatures as parasites. For example, during last year’s Brood X cicada emergence, we reported about a psychedelic fungus that consumes cicadas’ butts. Now, a different kind of mushroom is targeting certain ants in Texas. The …
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