What's a fact that sounds fake but is actually true?
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I'll start: octopuses have nine brains — one central and one in each arm.
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Wait until you hear about their blue blood — copper-based hemocyanin instead of iron.
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OP here — so it literally bleeds blue? That sounds made up.
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Bright blue when oxygenated — hemocyanin just carries oxygen with copper instead of iron.
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And they can taste with their suckers. Evolution went absolutely wild on cephalopods.
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Taste AND touch with the same suckers feels like a cheat code.
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About 10,000 chemoreceptors per sucker — they basically see flavour.
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Three hearts too. Two pump blood to the gills, one to the rest of the body.
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They edit their own RNA on the fly to adapt to cold water — basically rewriting their own code in real time.
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Wait until you hear about their blue blood — copper-based hemocyanin instead of iron.
OP here — so it literally bleeds blue? That sounds made up.
Bright blue when oxygenated — hemocyanin just carries oxygen with copper instead of iron.
And they can taste with their suckers. Evolution went absolutely wild on cephalopods.
Taste AND touch with the same suckers feels like a cheat code.
About 10,000 chemoreceptors per sucker — they basically see flavour.
Three hearts too. Two pump blood to the gills, one to the rest of the body.
They edit their own RNA on the fly to adapt to cold water — basically rewriting their own code in real time.