General Random Facts Topic

[Concisus Somnium]

A human's small intestine is roughly 20.7 feet feet long at adult size.
Likewise, the large intestine is 4.9 feet long at adult size.

Why is the small one the one that's longer?

[Shaymin]

A human's small intestine is roughly 20.7 feet feet long at adult size.
Likewise, the large intestine is 4.9 feet long at adult size.

it's not the length it's the area that matters.

During the times of smallpox, one way of ensuring you didn't get it was to infect yourself with cowpox (:

[Mushroom]

it's not the length it's the area that matters.

Bow Chikka Bow WOW

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That is all

[Concisus Somnium]

During the times of smallpox, one way of ensuring you didn't get it was to infect yourself with cowpox (:

Cowpox? That's one I've never heard of. I assume it's similar?

[Laprabi]

^Yeah, it's a less deadly variant that cow milk maids used to get, which is why they didn't get smallpox. This led to the first vaccinations by a guy whose name escapes me.

There is a type of jellyfish that, apon reaching adulthood, can reform it's cells back into childhood, it can repeat this as many times as it pleases, thus enabling it to live forever.

Yes, and it is appropriately named the Immortal Jellyfish.

There is also another species of Jellyfish that they found in marine dead zones in the Mediterranean that can survive without oxygen.

This could mean that we could send water to the moon and put these jellyfish in it.</innovation>

[Moon Chaser]

The most poisonous animal is the box jellyfish.  It has caused at least 5,567 recorded deaths since 1954. Their venom is among the most deadly in the world. It's toxins attack the heart, nervous system, and skin cells. And the worst part of it is that jelly box venom is so overpoweringly painful, that human victims go in shock, drown or die of heart failure before even reaching shore. This is so that it will instantly stun or kill prey, so the prey unable to struggle and damage it's delicate tenticals.

[ShiraBliss]

^ Cnidocytes and nematocysts. The venom is so deadly because the cnidocytes and nematocysts that box jellyfish use makes your cells explode.

Nematocysts are loaded with calcium ions, which when injected into the cnidocytes of the jellyfish - or the spear-like cells which act as needles to inject the poison into the prey - causes osmotic pressure inside the cnidocyte, which propells the poison into the victim at a tremendously high velocity. I can't remember the exact numbers, but I think it's something like 4000 or 40000 g's of force in a microsecond.

Ouch, right?

Exploding cells is one of the most traumatizing and deadly injuries you can get, not only because any toxins that your cells were carrying prior to the explosion get re-released into the body, but the body automatically goes into shock with high concentrations.

The only 'normal' way your cells explode is when macrophagocytes - after presenting the foreign substance to your T-Cells (the cells that are responsible for activating the phagocytes and telling them what to do with a foreign virus/bacterium/disease) - are ordered to engulf the substance in question and poison it with radioactive oxygen.

[Moon Chaser]

The parachute was invented by DiVinci in 1515.

[Freestyler]

In an average person's lifetime, they will have walked an amazing 5 times around the equator.

[ShiraBliss]

^ The average 1900's person or the average i-do-nothing-but-sit-at-home-all-day-playing-video-games person?

[Moon Chaser]

A catfish has approximately 100,000 taste buds.

[Shaymin]

The first cloned animal was a sea anenome and the first cloned pet was a cat whom they named Copy Cat.

[Ferox]

You can hypnotise a shark or a crocodile by turning it upside-down (lol our catfish does this to herself all the time).

[Moon Chaser]

On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

[MOP]

Random Fact 1: Drinking tea causes cancer.
Random Fact 2: Drinking tea cures cancer.

Thankyou Daily Mail!
Thanks to every comedian for predictable joke.