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#25 Fun FactsEver wonder what color eyes a scallop has or how deep the ocean really is? Quick what's the only metallic element that's liquid at room temperature?</Find out the answer to these questions and more in this offbeat list of fun facts from the world of science.</Scallops have as many as 100 simple eyes. They' re frequently blue.</<a href=http://www. livescience. com/6470-ocean-depth-volume-revealed. html>The ocean</a is 12080.7 feet (3682.2 meters) deep on average. That' s about eight Empire state Buildings stacked one on top of the other. The deepest part of the ocean however is about 36200 feet down (11030 m). That' s more like 25 Empire state Buildings.</King<a href=http://www. livescience. com/27534-richard-lionheart-heart-mummified. html>Richard the Lionheart' s heart</a is still around. After The english monarch died in 1199 his heart was removed and preserved — though today it' s basically just a pile of dust.</The Central american salamanderBolitoglossa dofleinican extend its tongue more than half its body length in 7 milliseconds 50 times faster than you can blink an eye.</The Catholic church once put a dead Pope on trial. After Pope Formosus died in A d. 896 his successor had disinterred him dressed in papal robes and set up to face a laundry list of political charges. The cadaver lost.</The male<a href=http://www. livescience. com/27572-platypus. html>platypus</a>has a venomous spur on its hind foot capable of dispensing a poison that can kill a medium-sized dog.</Look at the back of your hand and extend your thumb. See those two little tendons pop out and form a triangle between your wrist and your first thumb joint? Scientists call that triangle the " anatomical snuff box" because people used to have the habit of sniffing powdered tobacco from this fleshy depression.</<a href=http://www. livescience. com/27503-camels. html>Camels</a can down 30 gallons (113 liters) of water in just 13 minutes. The water is stored in the camel bloodstream while the fatty hump   Rather than being stored in its fatty hump serves as a source of nourishment when food is scarce.</Toilet paper is a relatively recent invention but the ancients still had to wipe. Roman philosopher Seneca who lived from 4 B c. to A d. 65 recorded the use of a sponge attached to a stick that did the job. Between uses the tool (called a tersorium) sat in a bucket of salt water or vinegar water.</Speaking of necessities residents of ancient Pompeii could<a href=http://www. livescience. com/26205-ancient-pompeians-upstairs-latrines. html >go upstairs to pee</a>.Though the eruption of Mount vesuvius in A d. 79 destroyed many second stories pipes left behind reveal traces of fecal matter and the occasional upstairs toilet still remains in the ruins.</Prosopagnosia is a disorder in which people struggle to recognize faces. Faces are so important that humans have a brain area called the fusiform gyrus that specializes in recognizing them. Developmental problems or injuries to the fusiform gyrus can leave people clueless about the looks of even loved ones.</Mantis shrimp can use their armored claws to strike at speeds of 74 feet per second (23 m/s) delivering blows with 200 pounds (91 kg ) of force behind them. The crustaceans are only about 4 inches (10 cm) long. Guess how they earned the nickname " thumb-splitters? "</The human body is full of friendly bacteria with organisms on our skin and in our guts helping keep our bodies humming.<<a href=http://www. livescience. com/25984-breast-milk-bacteria. html>Breast milk</a>alone can have up to 700 species of bacteria according to a study released in January 2013.</When a woman gets pregnant she' s not only growing a baby — she' s growing a support system for that fetus. As a result pregnant women have about 50 percent more blood by week 20 of pregnancy than they did conceived before they.</Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at standard room temperature and pressure. That' s because the electrons that spin around the nucleus of a mercury atom have just weak links or bonds with other mercury atoms at room temperature keeping the metal in a liquid state according to the Discovery Channel.</Carnivorous bog-dwelling plants called bladderworts can snap their traps shut in less than a millisecond 100 times faster than a Venus flytrap.</How did the Madagascar hissing cockroach got its name? Well it hisses of course. But how it hisses is a little weird. The giant insect forces gas through tiny breathing pores called spiracles on its thorax and abdomen. The cockroaches hiss when surprised when challenging other cockroaches to a fight and when trying to attract mates.</Modern bras didn' t come into fashion until the corset fell by the wayside in the late 1800s. But researchers poking around in a scrap pile in an Austrian castle have found linen<a href=http://www. livescience. com/21691-600-year-old-medieval-bras-discovered. html >bra-like garments</a>dating back 600 years.</Seahorses don' t have stomachs just intestines for the absorption of nutrients from food. Food passes through their digestive system rapidly so they eat plankton and small crustaceans almost constantly.</Amprophophallus titaniumblooms with clusters of flowers that can reach 10 feet (3 m) in height. But these petals smell so much like rotting flesh that the plant is known as the " corpse flower. "</Gravity on the moon is a sixth of what it is On earth. Someone who weighs 150 pounds (68 kg) on this planet moves the scales at only 25 pounds (11 kg) on the moon. Its gravity is so much lower because the moon is just 1 percent the mass of Earth.</As of 2011 Twitter users sent 200 million Tweets per day according to the social media website. That’ s the text equivalent of 8163 copies of " War and Peace. "</The adult skeleton has 206 bones. The smallest is the stapes or stirrup the innermost of three bones in the middle ear; the femur (thighbone) is the longest and strongest and the tibia in the lower leg is the second largest in the human skeleton.</The dinosaur with the longest neck for its body size isMamenchisaurus hochuanensisa sauropod dino that lived in what is now China. The American Museum of Natural history in New york has aMamenchisaurspecimen with a 60-foot-long (18 m) total length a whopping 30 feet (9 m) of which is neck.</Follow Stephanie Pappas on Twitter<a href=http://twitter. com/#!/#/sipappas>@sipappas</a>or Livescience<a href=http://twitter. com/#!/#/Livescience>@livescience</a>.>We' re also on<a href=http://www. facebook. com/livescience>Facebook</a>&</<a href=https://plus. google. com/101164570444913213957/posts>Google+</a>.<><ul><li><a href=http://www. livescience. com/11361-history-overlooked-mysteries>History' s Most Overlooked Mysteries</a></li><li><a href=http://www. livescience. com/11345-top-ten-unexplained-phenomena>Top Ten Unexplained Phenomena</a></li ><li><a href=http://www. livescience. com/11337-top-10-mysteries-mind>Top 10 Mysteries of the Mind</a></li></ul>The velvet belly lantern shark comes equipped with spines that<a href=http://www. livescience. com/27290-glowing-shark-spines. html>glow like lightsabers</a>.These appendages may be a visible warning to predators that any attempt to bite will end with them picking spiky bits out of the roofs of their mouths.</</p p

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