50 Weird Science Tidbits & Oddities
Feb 11 at 10:10pm by Aileen
Part 1: Items 1 – 10
In my surfing journeys through the internet’s reefs and shoals, I’ve encountered some really strange stuff. Factoids hardly anybody knows, about pretty much anything that might turn up as subject matter in a rousing championship match of Trivial Pursuit down at the pub on Thursday night. Some of these are real crowd-pleasers sure to draw spontaneous applause, stunned gasps, and plenty of free beers from admirers.
While there will be ten fun, honest-to-scientific facts or odd theories in each of the five posts on this subject this week, they’re not listed in any particular order on my weird-o-meter. If you have favorites among them, please log your votes in the comments. Eventually we should have a Top Ten!
1. Octopus Beats Grinch, Heart for Heart
The Grinch (that green fuzzy guy who stole Christmas) became an official good-guy when his heart grew three sizes one day. The octopus does even better – he has three hearts!
[Further facts: The blue-ringed octopus pictured here is the most poisonous octopus, with venom that can kill an adult human in minutes. There is no known antidote.].
2. A Naked Tiger Still Has Stripes
If a tiger loses all his hair, he’ll still be striped. Tiger stripes are like fingerprints, each individual cat’s markings are unique. And they’re not just hair, the stripes are in their skin. Seems to be a thing with cats, since your house cat’s fur markings are also skin deep!
3. Most Of Your Body’s Cells Aren’t Yours
Strange but true. There are more microbial cells in your body than cells that have your own DNA. As NPR’s Robert Krulwich reported in 2006, the human body has 20 times more microbes than cells! I guess that pretty well justifies the “Imperial We.”
4. Insects Outnumber Us
Perhaps that’s not so surprising since our own body’s microbes outnumber us too, but the scale is pretty humbling. There are more insects in just one square mile of fertile soil than there are human beings on the entire planet! Quite the delicacy in Asia…
5. And We’re All Eating Them…
The average person manages to consume about 430 insects every year of their lives, whether they intended to or not! And no, not all “average” people ride motorcycles.
6. Alligators Never Need Dentures
While both humans and alligators depend on their teeth in order to chew food, humans only get two sets of natural teeth to last them a lifetime. Alligators get from 2,000 to 3,000 teeth during the course of their lifetime! Which is no doubt why we never hear about grumpy ‘gators gumming anybody to death.
7. “Salt of the Earth” Is More Than A Title
There is enough salt in the world’s oceans to cover all the land on all the continents to a depth of nearly 500 feet! I’m cutting down on salt anyway, hope you are too.
8. When It Rains, It Croaks
Despite the common weather report that “it’s raining cats and dogs out there,” frogs and fish are the most likely animals to fall from the sky in rain. The most recent rain of frogs occurred in 2005 in Serbia, and it rained frogs in London in 1998. In 2006 it rained fish in India, while Wales got the fish-drop in 2004.
9. Space Resources We Could Put To Good Use
The interstellar gas cloud that comprises Sagittarius B contains a billion billion billion (yes, that’s three orders of billion) liters of alcohol. This factoid is bound to be a big hit at the pub!
10. Odd Theory Out, But Great Animation!
[Disclaimer] Several people have written to us complaining about our inclusion of a discredited theory in this list. We strongly believe that we’ve met our editorial duties by clearly pointing out 1) that this is an “odd” theory and 2) that most scientists discount it. But our operating principle here at Science News Review is that science should be fun, and that part of the fun of science is knowing about (while not agreeing with) odd theories. The great thing about science is that it does not have to be dogmatic, values experimentation and wonder, yet still manages as a community to filter the most accurate theories towards consensus. We don’t believe that this process requires dogmatism and think that a fun article about “oddities” can introduce people to the fun of odd theories, without giving editorial assent to their validity.
Though discounted by most scientists, comic book artist Neal Adams has popularized an Expanding Earth Theory that challenges standard plate tectonics. In this controversial theory our planet was once just about half as big as it is now – which purports to explain why dinosaurs got so big (less gravity) and other anomalies. Check Adams’ video, it’s very cool!
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Earth Doctor
February 18th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
5The expanding earth thing is old and inaccurate. It is irresponsible to post it here.
Aileen
February 19th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
6Hi, Earth Doctor. What was it in the words “odd,” “discounted” and “controversial” that you didn’t understand? Sorry, but for this bit of obious comic book fluff it seems to me that you sciencey-types take things WAAAAAY too seriously! Fact is the ‘theory’ is out there, the cool video is linked right here, and indignant attempts at imposed censorship don’t make it magically disappear.
Lighten up.
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February 19th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
8The expanding earth thing makes no sense…a planet can’t have an increase in gravitation without an increase in mass. There’s no way the earth could somehow gain or lose all that mass, no matter how the tectonic plates move around.
Peet
February 19th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
9Aileen, what in the words “discounted” and “controversial” you don’t understand? “discounted theory” and “controversial” is giving it too much undeserved weight. That’s like saying the flat earth theory is controversial. Read what Kevin said – duh!
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Paul Lanken
March 12th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
11Holy crap ! I understand how global warming happens now! As the earth expands it makes sense that the surface of the earth is closer to the sun on average and that the atmosphere has to get a bit thinner to spread over all that surface area. This also explains why flights are always delayed, because the planes are flying further. The pilots must look out the windows and say “gee, look, there is Brisbane now. We should have been there twenty minutes ago. Oh well .. isn’t that odd.” and then they land late. unload late and you are late. Exapnding earth. Works for lots of stuff if you think about it.
montex
March 12th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
12The first clue that Neal Adams’ Expanding Earth Theory is false comes from the fact that he describes the mainstream scientific community as conspiring to suppress his claims. He doesn’t seem to like that science IS the community of peers who must evaluate his claims independently. When he was rightfully exposed as a crackpot, he simply called every scientist out there a co-conspiracists and continued to espouse his ridiculous non-theory. I’m saddened to see it listed here.
Is Intelligent Design also on the list?
Tanisha
March 12th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
13I would definitely like to own a Toyger!
ACS
March 12th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
14Gravity increases the closer you are to the Earth’s centre. So a smaller Earth, with the same mass, would mean *higher* gravity. (This is one of the reasons why you weigh more at the poles than at the equator — the Earth is not perfectly round.) Dinosaurs would not have gotten big “because of less gravity.”
tom
March 12th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
15Actually, if the planet was smaller, with no change in mass, gravity would have been higher for the dinosaurs, not lower.
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March 13th, 2008 at 12:47 am
17What cracks me up the most about the video is that the Earth is rotating backwards.
totro
March 13th, 2008 at 6:17 am
18I am sorry, but you are doing science a great disfavor when you use the term theory to describe this ridiculous fairy tale about the Earth expanding. Scientific theories are well tested and accepted to be true by the scientific community. This fairy tale about the Earth expanding can be disproved with little effort, and therefor shouldn’t even been considered a HYPOTHESIS, let alone a theory! It is this basic misunderstanding about the way that science works that leads everyday people to believe that anything can be a “theory”, if they can imagine it. Its good to see that SNR is doing a great job of keeping the public ignorant on such things.
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Michelle
March 13th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
20I enjoyed the entire series but…”Factoids hardly anybody knows….” – are you telling us these are facts or things that sound like facts? According to the definition of factoid, it’s “something resembling a fact; unverified (often invented) information that is given credibility because it appeared in print.” (wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn)
Ryan
March 13th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
21“facts or things that sound like facts”
Isn’t this a false dilemma and also a bit pedantic? The vernacular usage of factoid is very much like “bit of trivia” or interesting information.
Aileen
March 13th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
22totro:
“Scientific theories are well tested and accepted to be true by the scientific community.”
Hi, totro. Last I checked there were quite a few ‘theories’ in science that are pure mathematical extrapolations entirely untestable. May never be testable. Strings, for instance, or branes… Though I agree that Adams’ ‘theory’ is odd and most certainly controversial, it is extant and does have a few scientific adherents. This happens in the sciences on occasion, the bad guesses usually fade away eventually.
What irks me is the outrageous behavior – including threats! – of people who take themselves waaay too seriously, in the attempt to censor all mention of this theory, even in the context of a humorous list of trivia. That’s pretty sick, and p*sses me off a whole lot more than edgy theories or silly hypotheses that come and go in the regular course of our collective endeavor to understand reality.
The hypersensitive wannabe popes out there need to lighten up. Sheesh!
Aileen
March 13th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
23Michelle:
“According to the definition of factoid, it’s “something resembling a fact; unverified (often invented) information that is given credibility because it appeared in print.” (wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn)”
According to the Random House Unabridged Dictionary 2006 edition (via dictionary.com), the very first definition of “factoid” is:
1. an insignificant or trivial fact.
Which, come to think of it, matches most of the items in this series of “Weird Science Tidbits & Oddities.”
Michelle
March 13th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
24Aileen, keep reading that same page.
“Usage Note: The -oid suffix normally imparts the meaning “resembling, having the appearance of” to the words it attaches to. Thus the anthropoid apes are the apes that are most like humans (from Greek anthr?pos, “human being”). In some words -oid has a slightly extended meaning—”having characteristics of, but not the same as,” as in humanoid, a being that has human characteristics but is not really human. Similarly, factoid originally referred to a piece of information that appears to be reliable or accurate, as from being repeated so often that people assume it is true. The word still has this meaning in standard usage. Seventy-three percent of the Usage Panel accepts it in the sentence It would be easy to condemn the book as a concession to the television age, as a McLuhanish melange of pictures and factoids which give the illusion of learning without the substance. · Factoid has since developed a second meaning, that of a brief, somewhat interesting fact, that might better have been called a factette. The Panelists have less enthusiasm for this usage, however, perhaps because they believe it to be confusing. Only 43 percent of the panel accepts it in Each issue of the magazine begins with a list of factoids, like how many pounds of hamburger were consumed in Texas last month. Many Panelists prefer terms such as statistics, trivia, useless facts, and just plain facts in this sentence.”
Aileen
March 13th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
25LOL!!! So… does this mean you’re the Language Police, or are you just an informer for the squad? Honestly, Michelle. If it bothers you a lot, my suggestion would be not to read. Problem solved! §;o)
slipperyone
March 13th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
26Aileen:
As I read it, Michelle was asking what definition of factoid the author was using so she could understand whether he intended these things as odd but true, or just odd and seemingly true. Seems like a reasonable question to me. You yourself act like the Language Police (in your post you show an obvious familiarity with their ogranizational structure) by quoting definitions at her. She calls you on your own quote, and shows that taken in context, what you quoted makes her point. Completely exposed, you should have said “touche”; instead you cry foul.
slipperyone
March 13th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
27kevin et al
It’s amazing to me how quickly people are willing to discount a theory with their knowledge of high school physics. Ten years ago, you would probably have told me that the universe can’t be expanding faster because of the force of gravity. Shows how little you (or anyone else) really knows about the forces that work in our universe.
Kevin, you argument has 2 parts:
A) A planet can’t have a an increase in gravity without an increase in mass. Are you assuming that the gravitational constant has been the same everywhere always? Can you prove this?
B) There’s no way the planet could gain or lose all that mass. What evidence do you have for this? I could probably think of a hundred ways this could happen. Here’s a few: 1) Dark matter turns out to be some type of WIMP, and the earth for some reason has been accumulating them over the past billion years. 2) The neutrinoes that supposedly pass through the earth get caught in some weird type of field deep in the core, generated by the radioactive material there. Over eons, their tiny bit of mass begins to add up. 3) The steady state theory turns out to be correct, and matter is spontaneously created. 4) A mini black hole has bored it’s way to the earth’s center. (could happen if it was moving slowly enough relative to the earth’s movement.) 5) An advanced race of aliens is using their matter transporter to send mass to the earth’s core in a huge engineering endevor. 6) Wormhole somewhere under the earth’s surface. 7) An anomoly of time and space caused a warp that contains a hidden pocket of mass that is slowly escaping from that pocket. (I like to call this the Bermuda Triangle theory) 8) Matter is leaking through from another brane. 9) It turns out that all living creatures do have a soul, the soul has mass, and when the creature dies, it’s soul descends into the earth (the origional mass of the soul comes from a different plane). 10) There are structures in the mantle that are something like superconductors, which are able to capture electromagnetic radiation. As they do so, their effective mass increases.
Well, a hundred, I don’t know.
Many suposedly crackpot theories have turned out to be true. Sometimes they have caused changes in the assumptions science has used for hundreds of years. Who would have thought that going faster gave you more mass? This doesn’t mean that you should believe every outragous claim made, just that you shouldn’t sweep away a theory because it violates an assumption you hold dear. Think outside the box.
Michelle
March 13th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
28Neither; simply pointed out something that bothered me about the writing of this article. I guess professional writers aren’t open to suggestions/critiques, but then again, most professional writers I know don’t react with the “insult the reader” method when it comes to realizing they might not be 100% correct.
Thanks for the interesting article, but I’ll take your suggestion and not read any further.
slipperyone
March 13th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
29montex:
You say that the first clue that the theory is wrong is something that it’s creator says and does. I though the first (and only) clue that a theory is wrong are arguments (and supporting facts) exposing it’s error.
I thought a scientific theory stands or falls on its own merrits, not the merrits of its creator. Should we start rating scientific theories based on the personality quirks of those involved?
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Howard
March 19th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
31All this serious discussion over a theory everyone assume sto be wrong… and that includes all our earth scientist. No I don’t believe it either but some of the things everyone is arguing about CAN be explained. As the magma comes up through the spread it is also getting further away from the center and it’s density decreases. It’s volume may change because of the decreased density but it’s mass remains the same… minus any gases which will dissapate off of course. For some one that wanted to argue for this theory there are explainiations which can fit most of what i’ve seen here today.
Erin
March 20th, 2008 at 3:01 am
32I believe in the theory of plate tectonics. In fact, the theory is one of my favorite things to learn about. So please, do not misinterperet what I am going to say. The thing is, I can understand why domeone might come to such a conclusion. In fact, it even had me going for a minute or two myself, and that’s saying something.
Now, you all keep saying that the keywords are “odd,” “discounted,” and “controversial.” However, I believe the real keyword here “theory.” Just as evolution is a theory, so is plate tectonics, and so is this and a theory is an unproven scientific idea. Now, scientists may find evidence to that may help to prove the theory, but it remains a theory nonetheless.
Technically, plate tectonics is nothing more than a bunch of scientifically based ideas about the earth and just because it is more accepted by the scientific community doesn’t neccessarily make it true. Now, I realize that some elements of physics may seem to discount this theory, but who is to say that there isn’t at least some truth to it? Because the real is that we just don’t know. So instead of putting other people’s ideas down, why don’t you try to see things from their point of view and try to come to an understanding as to why they would come to such a conclusion, because that is what science is really about.
Kennytic Energy
March 20th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
33You people type alot, i just wanted to text about the raining frogs…awesome.
Zarathustra
April 1st, 2008 at 2:47 pm
34uhm. well, Americans. 50% of this retard-country deny evolution took place on this planet…and believe the Bible over modern science on many points. I digress. Heres my advice. If you dont have a PhD in geology, maybe you should think for a second when you read that a theory isnt accepted by the vast majority of scientists. It isnt accepted for damn good reasons. As always–and in ALL things–if YOU are honestly interested in the TRUTH, you will find it. Just go look for it. Enjoy your life, and try to learn as much as you can.
Aileen
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:19 pm
35Thus spake Zarathustra…
“50% of this retard-country deny evolution took place on this planet…and believe the Bible over modern science on many points. I digress.”
No, you didn’t digress, you started out of the gate on four left feet and fell immediately on your face. Again, the animation is very cool (the guy’s a Marvel Comics artist, for goodness’ sake!), the hypothesis no more bizarre than Max’s Multiverses, and no matter how disfavored, it indeed exists. Attempts to censor my speech or threaten this blog into submission will earn you no great respect from this end.
“As always–and in ALL things–if YOU are honestly interested in the TRUTH, you will find it. Just go look for it.”
I am not seeking any absolute ‘TRUTH’ with this series, and if I were seeking it in other aspects of my life it would not be reflected here. Science doesn’t deal in big-t ‘TRUTH’. It deals with FAPP* and falsification.
[* For All Practical Purposes]
My suggestion is to go back to the top of this page, carefully read paragraph 1, then carefully read paragraph 2. Read them again if you need to, see if you can parse the meaning of the words and sentences. I assure you there is meaning, though it appears you missed it. Perhaps it was the light tone, the humorous description, or the dread word “fun.” I do understand that word goes right over many people’s heads altogether.
James
August 7th, 2008 at 3:46 am
36It is a very odd theory this expanding earth… But who can prove it wrong? Nobody can… It’s perfectly acceptable… and fun! Why people write in and complain tells you that people don’t want you to think or imagine… Let’s ban it!
idong
August 12th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
37i want fact on oxygen and ite compound
Neal Adams
September 9th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
38Neal Adams here. Just told of this. With your permission
“Expanding Earth” was the name given this theory by it’s originator, Professor of Geology Sammuel Warren Carey in the 60′s, I call it “Growing Earth-Growing Universe” Expanding make me think of a balloon.
Mention has been made that this theory was discredited. Not true. “Bi- passed” rather, when a subducting plate was spotted above Samoa, by Wadaddi and Benioff, the front-men of the Subduction theory.
Subduction has therefore had a 40 year free ride to prove that IT is the one clue to the concept that the Earth EATS IT’S OWN CRUST. Not all the crust. Just the oceanic plates. (Geologists attend.)
“Conspiracy to surpress” Never said it. A lie. “Conspiracy of thought”
Yes. A fave rave in the fields of science.
I… am quoted as saying scientists are co-conspirators against… uh, NO….although it IS a funny thought. All those lab-coats in a darkened room, Hunched over computers and black boards and pulling their hair out while screaming on phones placed around the room. heh,heh,heh. Tickles.
Dinosaurs WOULD increase their TOP POTENTIAL Weight, easily if the Gravity were 1/3 of today. And they were, on average 3 to 4 times as big as animals today.
Wegeners original Tectonics theory was discredited, and he ignored. Now we have the almost hysterically preposterous Pangea theory,….that says: All the land masses on Earth were….gathered on one side of the Earth, in what we call the Pacific into an island called Rodinia. They stayed that way for, oh 300 MY’s. Then one fine day Rodinia broke into pieces and scattered outward from a central point and spread around the world to have their other sides RE-JION together in the Atlantic, into an island, again. A new island that they call Pangea.
The conglomeration stayed togerher in this Pangea island for about 250 MY’s
Then PANGEA broke in half and the two halves went TO AND OVER the North And South poles, broke apart further and the pieces are NOW traveling to CRASH AT THE EQUATOR,….re-joining at exactly the same place ,to the inch, that they broke apart at.
That’s the theory that I find difficult to believe. I don’t know why.
Aileen
September 9th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
39Hi, Neal! Glad to have you weigh in on this interesting theory. It’s easy to see the resistance you’ve encountered is a bit overblown if it’s such a dismissible throw-away, which always gives me giggles about the supposed “open minded” nature of scientific investigation. It’s not always what it’s been cracked up to be, but is fun to keep track of anyway.
Thanks!
Espen Berg
October 24th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
40Neal seems to have a good case regarding at least some important points.
Why the continents appear to fit together on a smaller planet? Where is the missing 2/3 of Earths crust? Where are the subduction zones? What is the mechanism that allows the continents to spread and rejoin several times at the exact same place they once broke off?
How could all the continents be located on one side of the globe and all the water on the other side?
If it cannot be explained, it alone has the potential to disprove plate techtonics as we know it.
Finally: How could the dinosaurs grow so big if the gravitation has been constant?
What does all of this add up to? Sounds to me to be more like another “Magic Bullet Theory?” Why are not these difficult questions adressed by the scientists?
The weak part of this, is that Neal provides us with an insufficient explanation as for how the Earth could possibly be growing, because his theory breaks with the most fundamental physical laws accepted in modern science. But even if he might well be wrong in pointing out HOW this could work, he still could be right in his primary claim: that the continents once must have been together at all sides, simultaneously!
Nerds pfft
November 19th, 2008 at 6:14 am
41Wow, you people seriously need to chill down. We’re trying to have
fun here and then all of a sudden, you smart people are saying “No, that’s not true. Blah blah blah” Yeah yeah, just shut the hell up if
you don’t like reading these fun facts.
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44The expanding earth theory is really interesting, whether correct or not.
Thought I’d add: if it is true, then gravity on the surface of the Earth in the dinosaur times would have been LARGER. Because the mass of the earth would not have changed, so it would still have the same gravity, but the surface of the earth would be CLOSER to the centre of gravity – so gravity would be stronger on the surface in the past.
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August 27th, 2009 at 12:15 am
46I read the fact about how there are more insects in 1 square mile of fertile soil than there are humans on the entire earth. I think that is really gross and I couldn’t even imagine seeing that many insects.
Big Boomer
August 31st, 2009 at 3:13 pm
47The video clip of the expanding Earth has been removed from YouTube. Will you be updating your site to that factoid soon?
Some young readers might not realize that some of the “fun facts” displayed on these pages is more based on opinion and partial information than substantive science. So it would be nice if you would post a banner that announces that these “fun facts” are not to be taken as truth but rather serve to inspire readers to do their own investigations.
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