1. Butterflies taste with their feet.
2. The human nose can detect over 1 trillion scents.
3. Glass is actually a liquid, albeit a very slow-moving one.
4. The shortest bone in the human body is the stapes bone in the ear.
5. The universe is still expanding, and the r ...read more
1. Butterflies taste with their feet.
2. The human nose can detect over 1 trillion scents.
3. Glass is actually a liquid, albeit a very slow-moving one.
4. The shortest bone in the human body is the stapes bone in the ear.
5. The universe is still expanding, and the rate of this expansion is accelerating.
6. DNA is incredibly thin, yet if you were to unravel all the DNA in a human body, it would stretch from Earth to the Sun and back over 600 times.
7. Butterflies can't fly if their body temperature is too low.
8. There's a type of jellyfish that's immortal, the Turritopsis dohrnii, also known as the "immortal jellyfish."