Mar 23, 2017

Random Thursday

We've apparently hit the nature section or segment in That's a Fact Jack: A Collection of Utterly Useless Information [Updated] by Harry Bright and Jakob Anser, brace yourselves for more buggy (and planty) facts!

(image borrowed from Zodiac Signs)
"All scorpions glow. A scorpion's exoskeleton contains a thin transparent film called the hyaline layer, which fluoresces under black (ultraviolet) light. Even after hundreds of millions of years, the hyaline layers of fossilized scorpions still glow."

 
Had no idea that that happened! And yeah...had to go with a Scorpio picture because I didn't want to see pictures of scorpions! LOL!


(image borrowed from Disney Animals Wiki)
"Certain ants will climb to the top of a grass stalk and wait, becoming easy prey for roaming herbivores. Just a fluke? It is a fluke: the lancet liver fluke (Dicrocoelium dendriticum). Once inside an ant, the parasite controls its nerve centers, forces it open, and eventually finds safe harbor in the livers of sheep, cattle, goats, pigs, and, rarely humans."


Eww....


(image borrowed from Etsy)
"You can in fact get cooties. Cooties are lice."


I KNEW IT!! Okay not really! ;)


(image borrowed from Healthline)
"Poison ivy is a member of the tropical cashew family, from which we get cashew and pistachio nuts."


More new information!!!