September 04, 2013

This Week's Fascinating Fun Facts

Devon McCarroll
Staff Writer


Did you know that..


  • A mantis shrimp can swing its claw so fast it boils the water around it and creates a flash of light.


This shrimp is very cute.. but deadly
"I'm the cutest, most deadly shrimp there is."

  •  One species of jellyfish, Turritopsis nutricula, are immortal.
This Jellyfish's secret to immortality: don't die
  •  If you were to remove all of the empty space from the atoms that make up every human on earth, the entire world population could fit into an apple.
Your face right now

  • John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe died on July 4.


Jefferson: "I was here first.."

  • The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
"I'm innocent!"