What is your favourite fact?
I don’t know if this counts, considering the community’s name, but here goes:
In the Philippines, there exists:
- an island
- in a lake
- on an island
- in a lake
- on an island
and I, for some reason, think this is amazingly interesting :)
many species of conifer require fire to propagate - the high heat releases the seeds from their protective enclosure. this is why forest fires are beneficial to some forest environments
The temperature greatly influences the sex of Alligator eggs. Above 93F and the majority of the eggs will be male.
I think this actually also true for certain other reptiles and even some fish. Really freaking interesting.
We’re made from star dust :)
Don’t know if I have a favorite fact, but i recently learned all north American armadillos are quadruplets!
That’s fascinating, do you know why that happens?
I guess the egg always splits into four embryos after fertilization. I found their Wikipedia page surprisingly fascinating. They also can’t roll into a ball, but CAN use their intestine like a swim bladder, wtf is going with these little guys?