Capgras syndrome. A certain kind of brain damage severs the connection between your visual cortex and the emotional center of your brain, but the link to your higher cognitive areas are intact. You can see your own mother (or anyone important to you), know for a fact that she looks identical to your mother, but something will feel “off” and you will be convinced she is an imposter.

“There’s a type of crayfish that farms sea stars by cutting all their water legs off and eating it’s arms all the way to the center, but leaving the center intact. it then feeds the sea star with kelp to keep it alive so it regenerates, and then repeats the process.”

One million seconds ago was last week, while one billion seconds ago was 1988.

In 1977, the average life expectancy in Cambodia was 18.91 years.

Spider legs operate via the hydrolic pressure of their blood. That is why they curl up when they die.

If you damage a certain part of your brain, be it genetically or by accident, you will not recognize faces anymore. You will see what they are made of but you cannot put them together to form faces. However, you would still recognize everything else without problems. This is called Prosopagnosia.

Parrots often bond with a keeper, from their perspective, as a lifelong romantic partner. If the person dies, or the parrot is displaced, they can go into massive depression and pluck out their own feathers.

The average adult male has a biting force high enough to rip someone’s throat out with their teeth.

There was a woman named Joyce Vincent who died in her apartment in 2003 and wasn’t found by anyone until three years later. The only reason anyone found her is because a police officer smelled the stench, of which her other neighbors had ignored, and finally entered the apartment to find her body.

If you have an intestinal blockage you can burp up farts and have fecal vomit which is basically just throwing up your shit.

Due to Fresh drinking water being so scarce on the Galápagos Islands, some bird species, such as the Galapagos Hawk, have adapted by drinking the blood of other animals.

The Romans used to torture people by having goats lick their feet. Goats like salt so they would soak their feet in salt water. Eventually the goat’s tongue was rough enough that the skin would wear away, then you’d have a wound with salt trickling in.

Often people that fracture their tibia (big shin bone) but not their fibula (thin shin bone) think they’re okay to stand up and when they put weight through that leg then the fibula breaks too.

A toddler’s adult teeth are right below their eyes.

There is a type of insomnia that will kill you, life expectancy is around a year after onset. FFI – Fatal familial insomnia