What’s a Random Fact You Know That Blows Minds?

[jross]

...Humans share similar DNA with bananas

[red viking]

4 minutes ago, jross said:

...Humans share similar DNA with bananas

Well, we share similar DNR with pretty much all living organisms. Much higher % with apes though. 

[jross]

Just now, red viking said:

Well, we share similar DNR with pretty much all living organisms. Much higher % with apes though. 

Hey Captain Banana, what wilder/less known fact do you have than apes?

The heart of a blue whale is the size of a VW bug.  It weights several hundred pounds and you could crawl through its arteries.  https://oceaninstitute.org/heart-of-a-giant/

[red viking]

6 minutes ago, jross said:

Hey Captain Banana, what wilder/less known fact do you have than apes?

The heart of a blue whale is the size of a VW bug.  It weights several hundred pounds and you could crawl through its arteries.  https://oceaninstitute.org/heart-of-a-giant/

I guess I'm most fascinated by what's at "the edge" of the universe and everything about black holes, including whatever is at the center of them. I can watch documentaries or listen to podcasts about that for hours. 

Edited Tuesday at 01:51 PM by red viking

[jross]

1 hour ago, red viking said:

I guess I'm most fascinated by what's at "the edge" of the universe and everything about black holes, including whatever is at the center of them. I can watch documentaries or listen to podcasts about that for hours. 

Cool, so what's the random fact that blows minds?

Like that scientists can't find a center or edge to the universe?

[WrestlingRasta]

The state of Maryland has no lakes.

[red viking]

18 minutes ago, jross said:

Cool, so what's the random fact that blows minds?

Like that scientists can't find a center or edge to the universe?

Well, a lot of that is unknown, but related to those is the density of things like a neutron star or black hole singularity or whatever is inside there and just how big the universe is/how insignificant we are. I think a teaspoon of neutron star material weighs something like billions of tons or something like that Interesting side note is that if you did manage to collect some neutron star material and remove it from the neutron star, it would eventually decay into regular matter once you escaped the immense gravity of the star. So the neutrons would separate into protons and electrons. 

[El Luchador]

5 hours ago, red viking said:

Well, a lot of that is unknown, but related to those is the density of things like a neutron star or black hole singularity or whatever is inside there and just how big the universe is/how insignificant we are. I think a teaspoon of neutron star material weighs something like billions of tons or something like that Interesting side note is that if you did manage to collect some neutron star material and remove it from the neutron star, it would eventually decay into regular matter once you escaped the immense gravity of the star. So the neutrons would separate into protons and electrons. 

How about the concept that the universe is a hologram? It is a legitimate scientific hypothesis. 

[mspart]

7 hours ago, red viking said:

I guess I'm most fascinated by what's at "the edge" of the universe and everything about black holes, including whatever is at the center of them. I can watch documentaries or listen to podcasts about that for hours. 

Nothing is at the center of black holes and yet everything close to the black hole ends up there. 

mspart

[red viking]

1 minute ago, mspart said:

Nothing is at the center of black holes and yet everything close to the black hole ends up there. 

mspart

They don't know what's there but there's something because they emit huge amounts of radiation and have an immense mass. 

[mspart]

6 hours ago, WrestlingRasta said:

The state of Maryland has no lakes.

What?  Really?   That is strange.  Even the sand bar that is FL has lakes. 

mspart

[mspart]

Random fact:   I live on the side of a mountain on 1+ acre.   I can't dig 12 inches without hitting river rock.   My dad said it must have been a glacier at one time.   I just tried to auger out a bunch of fence post holes and had to dig out rocks on each one, and round they were. 

mspart

[mspart]

A blue whale brain is less than 20 pounds.   The brain to heart ratio is quite small.    0.1 or so.

A human brain to heart weight ratio is 4.

mspart

 

[mspart]

Wings are the fuel tanks in modern jet transport. 

mspart

 

[Wrestleknownothing]

Soccer is a British term.

[jross]

21 hours ago, red viking said:

Well, a lot of that is unknown, but related to those is the density of things like a neutron star or black hole singularity or whatever is inside there and just how big the universe is/how insignificant we are. I think a teaspoon of neutron star material weighs something like billions of tons or something like that Interesting side note is that if you did manage to collect some neutron star material and remove it from the neutron star, it would eventually decay into regular matter once you escaped the immense gravity of the star. So the neutrons would separate into protons and electrons. 

The science that boggles my mind recently is quantum entanglement: Particles entangled at a quantum level can instantly affect each other’s state, no matter the distance... even across galaxies.

[jross]

The human body contains trillions of microorganisms — outnumbering human cells by 10 to 1. Because of their small size, however, microorganisms make up only about 1 to 3 percent of the body's mass (in a 200-pound adult, that’s 2 to 6 pounds of bacteria), but play a vital role in human health.

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-human-microbiome-project-defines-normal-bacterial-makeup-body

[Paul158]

During a deep dive a blue whale's heart rate drops to 2 bpm. Resting heart rate is 8 beat per minute. On the high side some hummingbirds heart rates are 1200 beats per minute. Some weird facts.

[Paul158]

Blue whale has 1165 gallons of blood while the hummingbird has 0.4 milliliters of blood. Humans have 1.3 gallons of blood.

[jross]

2 minutes ago, Paul158 said:

Blue whale has 1165 gallons of blood...

That is 10,000 lbs. of blood. Wow!

I forget just how big a blue whale is.  The largest blue whale recorded was ~110 feet long and weighed ~200 tons!

[Paul158]

There are according to scientists there are 8.7 million different species. None of their blood is interchangeable.

[Scouts Honor]

eat is the only word where if you take the first letter and move to the end it spells the past tense