Strange But True #20 · 12:42am May 20th, 2020
Enjoy your random weekly facts!
1. Some worms can grow to 100 feet (30.48 meters) in length.
2. Jupiter is more massive than all the other planets in the solar system combined.
3. Tourists throw more than a million dollars into Rome, Italy's Trevi Fountain every year.
4. Pre-domesticated carrots were purple, not orange.
5. The Olympic Rings were designed to be the at least one color in every world flag: blue, yellow, black, green, and red.
6. Humans and slugs share more than half their genes.
7. Astronomers discovered a star made of 10 billion trillion trillion carats of diamond.
8. The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific.
9. The 50 tallest mountains on earth are in Asia.
10. September begins the same day of the week as December every single year.
Okay, how do they know about the Diamond Star?
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Telescopes and satellites that can detect components of a star, such as carbon, which is what diamonds are made of.
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Huh. Awesome. You learn something new everyday.
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That's what these blogs are for! :)
So Video games have likely made a worm off what is possible in reality
The ADAM slug is out there.
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Adam and Eve slugs.
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Ever heard of Bioshock?
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I have. What's up?
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Within the game the sea slugs of the ocean are used to gather the material ADAM that is used to rewrite their genetic code.
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Ohhhh that makes sense. I haven't played Bioshock yet, don't spoil too much! Lol
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Lips are sealed! It's a great game, you'll love it
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I'll end up giving it a whirl once I've come up on another gaming computer.
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Best of luck. And be sure to play them in order, for full experience
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Thanks, and I will keep that in mind.
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welcome,
and huzzah!
*Wipes slime off of keyboard*
You don't say.
Well, that explains my low-salt diet.
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It just means some day we could devolve to slugs, or slugs could evolve to humanistic forms.