The dung beetle is the most powerful bug on the planet. They can propel balls of fresh animal faeces (thus their name) weighing more than 200 times their body weight. Researchers observed one dung beetle pushing a ball 1,141 times his own weight, the equivalent of a 150-pound person moving an incredible 80 tonnes.

While hippos spend up to 16 hours a day in the water, they also spend time on land (and have been known to be super aggressive). They're also quite fast for their size. You will lose if you try to outrun a hippo. They weigh between 2,000 and 4,000 pounds and can run at speeds ranging from 15 to 30 miles per hour.

Because of their flexibility and the fact that their heads are only attached by one socket pivot, these birds can rotate their heads almost completely around. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University discovered that owls have backup arteries, which allow them to continue receiving blood and nutrients even when their blood vessels are severed while turning.

When it comes to sleeping habits, snails are all over the place. We'll call them manic. They may slumber for many hours before staying up for 30 hours or more. On the other hand, they have bizarre hibernation periods. They can sleep for up to three years, which is a survival mechanism for when they sense the need to self-preserve.

When the African Lungfish is in danger of dying, it secretes a mucus cocoon and burrows up to 9 inches into the earth, where it breathes through a built-in breathing tube that leads to the surface. It is thus dependent on rainfall to breathe.

That's enough power to kill a horse. And, while it may not be enough to kill you instantaneously, it is enough to knock you unconscious and leave you to drown. On a related point, being shocked by one burns your skin.

They may be little, but they kill millions of people each year, according to the World Health Organization. This is due to the fact that mosquitos contain and transmit a variety of viruses and illnesses, ranging from malaria to dengue fever to yellow fever. Malaria claimed the lives of 438,000 people in 2015.

Monkeys are certainly adorable. They may also be rather revolting. When Capuchin monkeys are feeling "randy," they urinate on their hands and feet. "We think the dominant males could utilise urine-washing to send nice, fuzzy sensations to females, that their solicitation is working and there's no need to run away,”.

The tides are caused by the tiny changes in gravitational pulls of the Moon and Sun, as well as centrifugal forces in opposing directions. The tides on Earth are at their greatest when the three bodies are aligned, which occurs near the full and new Moons. The Earth is then expanded along that line.

This one is a bit debatable, as some fans argue that it isn't canon. This is due to the fact that Sonic's entire name was never revealed. Archie Comics, which publishes two separate Sonic comics, published a comic in which Sonic's middle name is Maurice but his first name is never revealed. Sonic's first name is really Ogilvie, according to one of the Archie Comics authors. Fans disagree, claiming that Archie Comics' Sonic isn't actual canon, and that only the video games and Japanese comics are.

Snow leopards have less developed vocal chords than other large cats, so they can't roar and instead create a purr-like sound termed a chuff. Scientists investigated why certain cats have a higher-pitched meow than others in a 2010 study published in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. They discovered that a kitty's call is determined by environment rather than size.

The only vertebrates that can replace their skin, limbs, tail, jaws, and spines at any age are Axolotls. Humans, on the other hand, can recover lost limb buds as embryos and fingers as young toddlers.

In a moment, a leaping flea may reach astonishing heights of roughly eight centimetres (three inches). Acceleration is the change in speed of an item over time, which is commonly measured in 'g's, with one g equaling the acceleration generated by gravity on Earth (9.8 metres/32.2 feet per square second). Fleas are subjected to 100 g, but the Space Shuttle is only subjected to 5 g. A flexible rubber-like protein in the flea's secret lets it to store and release energy like a spring.

Male seahorses are the ones who become pregnant and give birth to their progeny. A male seahorse may give birth to anywhere from one to two thousand fry at a time. A single pregnancy lasts roughly two to four weeks. When the fry are ready to be born, the male seahorse contracts his muscles in order to eject the progeny from its pouch.

Those who come into contact with a grizzly bear will undoubtedly want to keep out of reach of the animal's razor-sharp claws. They'll also want to stay clear of the grizzly's mouth since, according to National Geographic, these animals "have a bite-force of over 8,000,000 pascals." This indicates that grizzly bears can shatter a bowling ball between their teeth. Yikes!

Crabs' claws may be able to frighten other species, but if that isn't enough, ghost crabs will snarl at their foes like a dog. Crabs, unlike our canine companions, generate these terrifying noises with fangs placed in their guts. They are part of the stomach's gastric mill machinery, where they rub against one other to grind up food.

Boxers may have the most spectacular punches, hooks, and uppercuts on the globe, but the mantis shrimp has the world's quickest punch. When a shrimp strikes at roughly 50 mph, its small fist of wrath "accelerates quicker than a.22-caliber bullet," according to Science. The story of one such little smasher was related by National Geographic, which explained that "in April 1998, an aggressive creature named Tyson blasted through the quarter-inch-thick glass wall of his cage." He was quickly subdued by frightened personnel and sent to a more guarded prison in Great Yarmouth.

Being an astronaut is a serious profession, but they do allow for little fun every now and again. In space, "fun" activities, like as imbibing alcohol, are absolutely outlawed. However, astronauts have occasionally attempted to defy this regulation. Bottles of cognac have been "smuggled" into spacesuits by a few Russian cosmonauts. Smuggle because they couldn't lawfully transport the forbidden drug into space. They have acknowledged to mislabeling them as "juice bottles" or concealing them inside hollowed-out books. One determined astronaut concealed a little bottle in their blood pressure measurement device's wristband.

Almost three-quarters of adults with Internet access have at least one social media account, with 52 percent having two or more. This means that your current and potential customers are not only likely to use social media, but they are also likely to use multiple sites.

You're probably thinking of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and possibly Pinterest as you consider your social media options. But have you thought about YouTube? Even if you don't consider it a social platform, it drives more engaged traffic than any other social site. Visitors from YouTube stay on sites the longest, visit the most pages, and bounce the least of any social platform referral traffic.

Christian Dior technically invented designer sunglasses when, in the early 1960s, they licenced their brand to be used to produce luxury sunglasses for discerning fashionistas. Using Optyl, his own lightweight thermo-hardening material, he converted expensive sunglasses into more wearable everyday items. The properties of this material also allowed for a wider choice of models, from broad and original lines to previously discovered hues and delicate degradé of translucent, brown, green, and grey colours that still mark Dior's beautiful and refined style.

Do you think anglerfish and other bioluminescent critters are cool? You, too, light in a similar process known as biophoton emission. Scientists have been able to record minuscule quantities of light emitted by chemical processes in our cells using ultra-sensitive cameras. The glow, however, cannot be seen with the naked eye since it is a thousand times dimmer than what humans can perceive.

Why doesn't your stomach digest itself if it has so many enzymes and acids that it can digest a piece of meat? It turns out that it sort of does. The cells that line your stomach proliferate fast in order to replace the cells that are killed in the course of their everyday tasks. Every three days, we develop a new gut lining.

Norwegian scientists conducted an experiment on college students, giving one set of students printed text sheets and asking the second group to read the same content on a computer screen in PDF format. It turns out that pupils retain knowledge better when it is printed on paper. It's yet another win for printed books versus digital gadgets.