Animals Are Ridiculous
This “immortal” sea creature can revert to an earlier life stage instead of dying normally.
What is the immortal jellyfish?
Charles Osborne holds the record for having these continuously for 68 years.
What are hiccups?
This fruit floats in water because about 25% of it is air.
What is an apple?
The first computer “bug” was literally one of these found trapped in a machine in 1947.
What is a moth?
In 1518, residents of the European city of Strasbourg reportedly did this uncontrollably for days, with some allegedly collapsing or dying from exhaustion.
What is dance?
This shark may live at least 250 years, and possibly over 500.
What is the Greenland shark?
This part of the human body has a unique pattern, much like a fingerprint.
What is the tongue?
White chocolate technically is not considered true chocolate because it lacks this ingredient.
What are cocoa solids?
This video-sharing platform was originally created by former PayPal employees.
What is YouTube?
In 1919, a massive wave of this substance flooded Boston streets, moving fast enough to damage buildings and kill 21 people.
What is molasses?
The pistol shrimp can snap its claws so fast it creates a "cavitation bubble," vaporizing the water around it, and reaching a temperature nearly equal to the surface of this celestial object.
The sun.
This is the only organ in the human body that can regenerate a large portion of itself.
What is the liver?
This expensive spice comes from the stigma of a flower and must be harvested largely by hand.
What is saffron?
In 2012, a computer virus called Stuxnet became famous for targeting this type of facility in Iran.
What is a nuclear facility?
During World War II, a bear named Wojtek officially served in this country’s army and helped carry artillery shells.
What is Poland?
This bird can mimic chainsaws, camera shutters, car alarms, and other artificial sounds.
What is the lyrebird?
Your stomach protects itself from its own acid by constantly producing this slippery substance.
What is mucus?
The world’s hottest chili pepper recognized in 2023 surpassed 2.6 million units on this heat scale.
What is the Scoville scale?
The very first website ever created explained information about this emerging system.
What is the World Wide Web?
In 2003, authorities discovered a man who had secretly lived inside this city's airport for about 18 years after becoming trapped without citizenship status.
What is Paris?
This tiny animal can survive extreme heat, cold, radiation, dehydration, and even space exposure.
What is a tardigrade?
This human reflex can travel up to 100 miles per hour.
What is a sneeze?
This Japanese pufferfish can kill diners if improperly prepared because it may contain tetrodotoxin.
What is fugu?
This chess-playing supercomputer defeated world champion Garry Kasparov in 1997.
What is Deep Blue?
In 1945, a Japanese soldier named Hiroo Onoda continued fighting World War II for nearly 30 years because he refused to believe this.
What is that the war had ended?