You ’ll never look at a shooting lead the same path again .
Look, unless you’re a scientist or work for a quiz show, you probably don’tneedto know anything that’s on this list.
But, since you clicked on this article, I’m willing to bet that you don’t actually care if the facts on this list are “important” or not. So, here are 17 random science facts that are not going to impact your day to day life in any meaningful way!
1.Dolly the sheep, the first cloned mammal, is named afterDolly Parton.
2.If you see a “shooting star”, there’s a chanceyou’re actually seeing astronaut poop.
3.It’s possible for a human to get pregnant while they’realreadypregnant.
4.Female frogswill pretend to be dead to avoid unwanted sex.
5.Female funnel spiders, on the other hand, pretend to be dead so that theycanhave sex.
6.Four out of fiveanimalson Earth are microscopic worms.
7.Also, scientistsresurrecteda nematode that had been frozen for 46,000 years.
8.There are tiny little bugs that live in your eyelashes.
9.When men smell a women who is ovulating,their testosterone levelspikes.
10.And when women are sexually aroused, theirnormal disgust responsebecomes weaker.
11.London cab drivers have an enlarged hippocampus, the area of the brain associated with spatial memory.
12.Flying cars aren’t a distant dream of the future –they already exist.
13.Each arm of an octopus basically has its own brain.
14.Goalkeepers have faster brains than their teammates.
15.In large quantities, nutmeg hashallucinogenic properties.
16.There are 19 organismsnamed aftertheHarry Potterseries.
17.Anew study suggeststhat wild animals like gazelles, zebras, and leopards are more afraid of humans than lions.
You, after reading this list.
