5 Facts You May Find Interesting

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1. Want to be immortal? You can. You just need to be a jellyfish.

Turritopsis dohrnii is now officially known as the only immortal creature. The secret to eternal life, as it turns out, is not just living a really, really long time. It’s all about maturity, or rather, the lack of it. The immortal jellyfish (as it is better known popularly) propagate and then, faced with the normal career path of dying, they opt instead to revert to a sexually immature stage.

It turns out that once the adult form of the 4.5 mm-wide species Turritopsis dohrnii have reproduced, they don’t die but transform themselves back into their juvenile polyp state. Their tentacles retract, their bodies shrink, and they sink to the ocean floor and start the cycle all over again. Among laboratory samples, all the adult Turritopsis observed regularly undergo this change. And not just once: they can do it over and over again.

https://immortal-jellyfish.com/
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/greatmomentsinscience/the-strange-life-of-the-immortal-jellyfish-dr-karl-kruszelnicki/7666380

The fish can die. It can be eaten by other creatures and can catch illnesses.

2. Prince Charles has a car that runs on wine.

Queen Elizabeth gave Prince Charles an Aston Martin for his 21st birthday.

Engineers at Aston Martin had discovered that their cars could run on surplus English white wine (albeit mixed with a whey). Still, they urged the Prince not to switch out his fuel. "The engineers at Aston said, 'Oh, it’ll ruin the whole thing,'" he said, according to The Telegraph.

Charles wasn't about to take no for an answer. "I said, 'Well I won’t drive it then,' so they got on with it and now they admit that it runs better and is more powerful on that fuel than it is on petrol... And also, it smells delicious as you’re driving along."

https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a24883994/prince-charles-car-aston-martin-runs-on-wine/


3. Martin Luther King Jr and Anne Frank were both born in 1929

https://www.buzzfeed.com/kristinchirico/iconic-people-you-had-no-idea-were-the-same-age


4. The plural of Octopus should be Octopodes

Though octopuses is the most used and accepted plural form for octopus, octopus is (Latinized) Ancient Greek, from oktṓpous (ὀ??ώ???? ), gender masculine, whose plural is oktṓpodes (ὀ??ώ????? ).


5. Betty White really is older than sliced bread

Betty White was born in 1922, the bread slicer was sold in 1928.
Betty White is also older than the trampoline, ballpoint pens, the jukebox, the garage, traffic signals, garbage disposals, synthetic rubber tires and frozen food.

Oh... and one more thing about sliced bread; it was briefly banned during WW II because it was sold in plastic bags and plastic was needed for the war effort.