General Discussions

The average person eats 4 spiders every year in their sleep

99% of the solar systems mass is concentrated in the sun.


Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.


A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

Eating spiders in your sleep is an urban legend. On top of being improbable, the sensations against your tongue will trigger an unconscious defense mechanism that will cause you to wake up.

so says you but not all spiders are tarantulas in size some spiders especially juveniles can be only the size of a grain of sand or even a few millimetres which even in a state of conscious would be close to impossible to detect and could be easily inhaled in your sleep

The world's largest amphibian is the giant salamander. It can grow up to 5 ft. in length.

The longest cells in the human body are the motor neurons. They can be up to 4.5 feet (1.37 meters) long and run from the lower spinal cord to the big toe.

The largest flying animal was the pterosaur which lived 70 million years ago. This reptile had a wing span of 36-39 feet (11-11.9 meters) and weighed 190-250 pounds (86-113.5 kilograms).

The Atlantic Giant Squid's eye can be as large as 15.75 inches (40 centimeters) wide.

100 years ago: The first virus was found in both plants and animals.

90 years ago: The Grand Canyon became a national monument & Cellophane is invented.

80 years ago: The food mixer and the domestic refrigerator were invented.

70 years ago: The teletype and PVC (polyvinyl-chloride) were invented.

60 years ago: Otto Hahn discovered nuclear fission by splitting uranium, Teflon was invented.

50 years ago: Velcro was invented.

40 years ago: An all-female population of lizards was discovered in Armenia.

30 years ago: The computer mouse was invented.

20 years ago: First test-tube baby born in England, Pluto’s moon, Charon, discovered.

10 years ago: First patent for a genetically-engineered mouse was issued to Harvard Medical School.

5 years ago: The first successful cloning of human embryo

Whilst the biting pressure in the jaws of a crocodile is insanely high (5000 pounds per square inch), the muscles that actually pull open its jaws are fairly weak. It is possible to just hold their jaws together.

There are only two species of lizards with a venomous bite; the Beaded Lizard and the Gila Monster.

The platypus has a spur on their ankle that is connected to a gland that produces poison. Echidnas have a spur and the gland but they're not connected.

The bull shark is the only shark capable of swimming in fresh water.

The cheetah cannot retract its claws.