mmm's Fun Fact of Whenever I Feel Like It!

[mmm]

http://www.the-scientist.com/images/June2013/640px-Female_coco_de_mer_seed.jpg

The Coco De Mer Palm tree has seeds that can weigh up to 45 freakin pounds. It takes 8 years for the seed to germinate. Crazy.

[Zia-]

So if i were to plant one, it would take 8 years to get more? wow, what a waste of my life that would be.... mmm ship some over to meh :3

[meiguorach]

Avacado trees take a really long time too...

[Shadowstar1922]

http://www.the-scientist.com/images/June2013/640px-Female_coco_de_mer_seed.jpg

The Coco De Mer Palm tree has seeds that can weigh up to 45 freakin pounds. It takes 8 years for the seed to germinate. Crazy.

Thanks evolution. lol

[mmm]

Did you know that the saltiness of the ocean is caused by the tears of sharks who just want to be cuddled? Picture related.
http://www.replikultes.net/medias/images/movies/posters/305.jpg

Researchers in Japan cloned a mouse using a single drop of blood. It's cool how easy this stuff is getting. Or scary.
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Technology/Pix/pictures/2008/04/23/Clones460x276.jpg

Have no access to hallucinogenic drugs? Fear not! Here is a legal and yet less socially acceptable way to trip at at home!
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/1044131_618496068171408_1850276132_n.jpg

[Zia-]

Did you know that the saltiness of the ocean is caused by the tears of sharks who just want to be cuddled? Picture related.
http://www.replikultes.net/medias/images/movies/posters/305.jpg

Researchers in Japan cloned a mouse using a single drop of blood. It's cool how easy this stuff is getting. Or scary.
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Technology/Pix/pictures/2008/04/23/Clones460x276.jpg

Have no access to hallucinogenic drugs? Fear not! Here is a legal and yet less socially acceptable way to trip at at home!
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/1044131_618496068171408_1850276132_n.jpg

wow, thats quite an amazing fact about the Galapagos Tortoise, as for the hallucination thingy, ik what im doing this weekend

[mmm]

Snails on the Great Barrier Reef can jump the equivalent of their own height in order to evade predators. Then they slowly float back down into the predator's gaping maw. Nice.

Pic related.

This is more of a funny story about how stupid some people are than a fact. Scientists drove a drill 3km down into an Artic lake that had been undisturbed for at least 15 million years, and extracted all kinds of cool samples (DNA from more than 3500 organisms, for example).
https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/7991_623538394333842_1595519824_n.jpg

Big cats in the Amazon are capable of imitating the cries of baby pied tamarins (http://www.clemetzoo.com/whats_new/images/2010-11_pied-tamarin-baby.jpg) or the distress calls of a baby monkey.In doing so, they can lure more prey.

[Dr Frook]

Snails on the Great Barrier Reef can jump the equivalent of their own height in order to evade predators. Then they slowly float back down into the predator's gaping maw. Nice.

Pic related.

This is more of a funny story about how stupid some people are than a fact. Scientists drove a drill 3km down into an Artic lake that had been undisturbed for at least 15 million years, and extracted all kinds of cool samples (DNA from more than 3500 organisms, for example).
https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/7991_623538394333842_1595519824_n.jpg

Big cats in the Amazon are capable of imitating the cries of baby pied tamarins (http://www.clemetzoo.com/whats_new/images/2010-11_pied-tamarin-baby.jpg) or the distress calls of a baby monkey.In doing so, they can lure more prey.

omg the snail is freaking me out.

[mmm]

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/970399_624094110944937_1384440815_n.jpg

[mmm]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/1016533_624130424274639_332630730_n.jpg

I can't really see the camels...but hey!