What is your favourite fact?
I’m full of weird facts i learned over the years actually. So, another one: wombats have cube shaped poop.
Certain bird species, like pigeons and parrots, will release their tail feathers when they get caught by a predator. This way they can escape, leaving the predator with a mouth full of feathers. Sometimes it’s called fright moult.
The distance between the Earth and the Moon is 30 times the width of the Earth.
We’re made from star dust :)
I don’t know if this counts, considering the community’s name, but here goes:
In the Philippines, there exists:
- an island
- in a lake
- on an island
- in a lake
- on an island
and I, for some reason, think this is amazingly interesting :)
many species of conifer require fire to propagate - the high heat releases the seeds from their protective enclosure. this is why forest fires are beneficial to some forest environments
The temperature greatly influences the sex of Alligator eggs. Above 93F and the majority of the eggs will be male.
I think this actually also true for certain other reptiles and even some fish. Really freaking interesting.