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The "nearest" large galaxy to ours is Andromeda. If you were traveling at the speed of light, it would take 2 million years to reach it. :o

Human beings are the only animal on the planet that enjoy spicy food, and no one really knows why.

The second most intriguing organism of the Cambrian, is this sci-fi nightmare creature.

Opabinia is the name of this five-eyed arthropod genus. The only known species is Opabinia regalis, a ten-centimeter predator that probably caught its prey with a long flexible proboscis tipped with spines.

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OK, I'll give it a go....
What is self? What makes you or I human? The bacterial cells which make up the natural flora (covering the skin, within the stomach, intestines, etc.) of our bodies outnumber the human eukaryotic cells by a factor of 10. So only about 10% of what we consider us is actually "human." Well then what of our thoughts, our feelings, our emotions; that then must be what makes us us right? The flora making up the our microbiomes are responsible for converting many compounds which our bodies are unable to utilize into the necessary forms which we require to function properly, such as converting vitamin K into a biologically available form which is required for things like blood clotting. The natural flora of our bodies are also capable of regulating immune responses either initiating responses to antigens or foreign bodies which may be present, or suppressing immune responses.
What's more is that you really are capable of thinking with your stomach, or at least the microbiota within the stomach and intestines are capable of influencing feelings, and moods. Intestinal flora are capable of regulating the release and re/uptake of neurotransmitters including serotonin. By this they can do such things as affecting moods - happiness, sadness, and they can alter feelings of hunger or satiety.
So what part of us are actually us? What does it mean to be human, when our own cells are vastly outnumbered within our bodies? What of our thoughts and feelings when they can be influenced by single celled organisms dwelling within our intestines?

Anyways, that's one that I've always found intriguing and a fun thing to ponder over now and then. I can provide some small random tidbits if wanted or if that doesn't amuse.

Curiosity:

1 - We can not see a single star in real time, and most see even with thousands of years of delay. Even our sun takes 8 minutes and 20 seconds to get to us, so it exploded, it would take these 8 minutes to realizing it. And some stars we observe in the sky can no longer exist ...
2 - Already, 45% of Americans are unaware that the Sun is a star;
3 - The first walk on the moon (Neil Armstrong) wore the number 41;
4 -The smallest black hole ever discovered, is only 24km in diameter. Do not fool yourself: in fact these micro black holes exert a much stronger pull of the great, that is, the smaller, more devastating;

In the year 2038 the timestamp for most Unix systems will overfloat, because it is storing the seconds since 1.1.1970 in an 32-bit integer. So by 03:14:07 UTC on Tuesday, 19 January 2038 the integer can't be counted higher and therefore must be replaced with a 64-bit integer.

Overhydration occurs when the body takes in more water than it excretes and its normal sodium level is diluted. This can result in digestive problems, behavioral changes, brain damage, seizures, or coma. An adult whose heart, kidneys, and pituitary gland are functioning properly would have to drink more than two gallons of water a day to develop water intoxication. This condition is most common in patients whose kidney function is impaired and may occur when doctors, nurses, or other healthcare professionals administer greater amounts of water-producing fluids and medications than the patient's body can excrete. Overhydration is the most common electrolyte imbalance in hospitals, occurring in about 2% of all patients. So in short always remain hydrated, but don't drink too much water!

You see your nose all the time, but your brain ignores that.
After you read this, you tried to repair your nose. c:

Atoms form about 4% of the total energy density of the observable Universe, with an average density of about 0.25 atoms/m3. Within a galaxy such as the Milky Way, atoms have a much higher concentration, with the density of matter in the interstellar medium (ISM) ranging from 105 to 109 atoms/m3. The Sun is believed to be inside the Local Bubble, a region of highly ionized gas, so the density in the solar neighborhood is only about 103 atoms/m3. Stars form from dense clouds in the ISM, and the evolutionary processes of stars result in the steady enrichment of the ISM with elements more massive than hydrogen and helium. Up to 95% of the Milky Way's atoms are concentrated inside stars and the total mass of atoms forms about 10% of the mass of the galaxy. (The remainder of the mass is an unknown dark matter.)

i hope this one works :D

Did you know that:
-A large swarm of desert locusts can consume 20,000 tons (18,160,000 kilograms) of vegetation a day.
-There are 60,000 miles (97,000 km) in blood vessels in every human.
-Toilet paper is a relatively recent invention, but the ancients still had to wipe. Roman philosopher Seneca, who lived from 4 B.C. to A.D. 65, recorded the use of a sponge attached to a stick that did the job. Between uses, the tool (called a tersorium) sat in a bucket of salt water or vinegar water.
-The Central American salamander Bolitoglossa dofleini can extend its tongue more than half its body length in 7 milliseconds, 50 times faster than you can blink an eye.
-PROSOPAGNOSIA is a disorder in which people struggle to recognize faces. Faces are so important that humans have a brain area called the fusiform gyrus that specializes in recognizing them. Developmental problems or injuries to the fusiform gyrus can leave people clueless about the looks of even loved ones.

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Joking ofc :)

Spaghettification:
Theoretically, when something gets closer to a black hole, enormous tidal forces increase and cause the object to stretch. An astronaut heading feet first towards a black hole would experience greater gravitational forces on their feet than on their head. As his feet accelerated faster than the top his body, he would stretch until the forces became too great, at which point he would snap in half, only to have the process begin again on each half.

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You know that mosquitos have 47 teeth? :)

Kissing can reduce allergic reactions, especially on immunoglobin E (IgE) production which is associated with all kinds of allergies from hay fever to asthma. so if you're looking for a kiss you can use this excuse or pick up line lol.

It is very interesting to enter your whilelist have to talk about science I dedicate soon to the party tecnolocia where telecommunications networks and unite to not come with technical terms, we speak of a curious fact may have already heard or maybe no, because the change from IPv4 to IPv6
This IP address they have and what is needed to connect to the internet this is mandatory, as it has the necessary collaborated identified and that information from anywhere in the world that can get us only to the machine on which the information was requested, but what happens today and in the future there are several enabled devices to connect to the Internet and this makes handling equipment processing routing is required, but this is not resolved because these teams managed by another iP that forms thereof way, but these teams have a ip public type that like a website is that they can only be in X ip range and is divided by country and say somehow these ranges and must be overcome so you have to change another way to address them and provide many more teams going to need it and for this surguió IPv6 has an approximate range of iP addresses + 23 6.67126144781401e + 23

It only takes 7 cm of water to cut the amount of radiation in half.

One would only survive 10-40 hours* treading water in a spent nuclear fuel pool. This is the same amount of time you would survive if you trend water in a normal swimming pool. Divers routinely clean these radioactive pools.

*based on your swimming ability.

Pretty basic info (with pretty fantasy cogitations) that I discovered it not so long ago:
Did you know that the so called "Dark matter" represents more than 1/4 of the known universe?
And, Dark matter is a particular kind of matter which doesn't interact with electromagnetic radiation (so it's kinda invisible and immaterial) but still acts like it has a particular mass, so to put it simply (and here come the fantasy cogitation ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ) it's like there is something (or someone) invisible to human eyes that is using his force to keep the universe as it is.

Studies show that 85% of all studies are incorrect.

Have you ever heard of the clathrate gun hypothesis?

Essentially, there's a massive amount of frozen methane hydrates, or clathrates, trapped under the oceans by water pressure and temperature (you can see it as whiteish flocks in deepwater horizon ROV footage - the blowout was originally caused by a methane bubble!).
Add global warming, and the methane gets free, moves up to the surface, becomes a very powerful greenhouse gas and proceeds to contribute to further global warming in a runaway effect freeing even more methane. Once the clathrate gun fires, it can't be reversed.

Combine that with global warming taking several decades to hit the bottom of the sea simply because of the sheer amount of water involved, and you can find it's possible we're already doomed while unaware of it. Oh, and the arctic has already been leaking methane for a while now. Enjoy the future.

The Stegosaurus dinosaur measured up to 30 feet (9.1 meters) long but had a brain the size of a walnut :p

You can control someone else's arm with your brain.

The average person walks the equivalent of five times around the world in a lifetime:
The average moderately active person take aound 7,500 step/day. If you maintain that daily average and live until 80 years of age, you’ll have walked about 216,262,500 steps in your lifetime. Doing the math; the average person with the average stride living until 80 will walk a distance of around 110,000 miles. Which is the equivalent of walking about 5 times around the Earth, right on the equatorThe average person walks the equivalent of five times around the world in a lifetime

An owl can spin it's head around over 270 degrees! I get a crick in the neck after a third of that. ;)

Ok, milk is actually bad for us, ironically it actually increases calcium loss and thus weakening our bones instead of strengthening them.