And, it's been proven, science has been revealing the crazy facts about Earth and the natural surroundings. Can not believe it? Let's look at 10 of them.
1. Plants Turned Out to Be Social Beings
They have no memory, but plants can recognize their close relatives and work together. Plants become less aggressive when surrounded by 'family members', helping each other instead of competing fiercely like when they are with 'strangers'.
In a paper written by the biologist from McMaster University, Susan Dudley in the American Journal of Botany, the assumption that plants are passive creatures, resigned to accept fate, scientists found them to behave like animals.
Some plants even seem to be social, supportive of the family while encouraging foreigners from the environment.
In the journal, Dudley explains Impatiens pallida, an ordinary flower plant, shedding less energy than usual to grow its roots when surrounded by its relatives. Meanwhile, near plants with unrelated genetics, they grow roots as quickly as possible.
2. The Human Body is the Source of Energy
When humans inhabit energy - especially those from fossils. Without realizing it, our body can actually produce energy. The average human produces about 100 watts at rest, and can soar up to 2,000 watts during intensive exercise.
As the Extreme Tech site loads, most of the energy is needed for important tasks, such as pumping the heart and flexing the muscles. However, there is a lot of wasted energy, released into heat.
Interestingly, almost all wasted energy can be captured and converted into electricity, which can then partially or completely replace our dependence on chemical batteries. That's what scientists are trying to do now.
"Soon, a battery of human energy will come in. It's just a matter of time and the extent to which the research is done," Extreme Tech said.
The first person who might have altered his might was the army, who often carried and dragged heavy equipment.
3. Male hippos Can Get Pregnant
Male hippopotamus and exchange roles in reproduction. Males have 'descendants' - the place where the females put their eggs - then give birth to them.
As published by science sites, the Science Daily evolutionary biologist from Texas A & M University, Adam Jones and colleagues studied the male parent having an external structure similar to a sac.
After the egg is inserted, the male then releases the sperm into the bag to fertilize the egg.
"It would not be interesting if the bag was just a crease in which the females lay eggs of some sort," Jones said. "But the male pregnancy of some sea horse species is much more complex than that."
4. Shaking Hands More Easily Spreading Germs
This is good news for couples: there's no reason not to kiss a partner, even if it's a cold. Origin... keep your hands far apart.
"People do not want to kiss while the flu, when in fact, they are more likely to transmit infection by shaking someone's hand," said health expert Professor Sally Bloomfield.
5. These Jellyfish Are Immortal
In 1988, humans finally found 'eternal life' from the seabed. The findings were produced by a German marine biologist named Christian Sommer, who was in his 20s.
As the New York Times published, at that time, he spent the summer in Rapallo, a small town on the Riviera, Italy - where a century earlier Friedrich Nietzsche gave birth to Zarathustra (Also Sprach Zarathustra).
The creature is a species of Turricopsis nutricula jellyfish. When injured, it will transform itself into a lump, and begin a process called transdifferentiation.
The creature's cell will return to its original shape and grow again. Or effectively regenerate.
Indeed, the jellyfish can die by its predators. But if not prey, he will not die.
6. Human Closely Related to Mushrooms
Humans share a common ancestor with almost all creatures, but we are relatively close to the fungus. In fact, fungi are genetically more to humans than plants.
As the io9 site appears, the basic idea of the theory is the idea that life forms on land come from various types of floating algae around the ocean.
Fungal proteins are more like animals than vegetable proteins. Later it was found that both animals, as well as humans, and fungi contained a component called lanosterol, while the plants did not have any.
7. The Age of the Universe is 13,82 Billion Years
The universe is very old age. Namely 13.82 billion years.
Then, how old is the earth? Based on radiometric dating of meteorites, Earth's age is over 4.54 billion years old. The planet in which humans depend on life is very old, broken, solid again.
A recent study by the University of East Anglia, UK estimates, Earth is still able to sustain life for at least 1.75 billion years. But the conditions, during the nuclear catastrophe, the collision of a giant asteroid, and other catastrophes did not happen.
8. Human Hair Can Withstand 12 Tons
Unless your hair is easy to fall out or even bald, the combined hair on the head, or 15 thousand strands, can hold the weight of two elephants at once or 12 tons.
As ehow.com loads, it is an expert named Dr. Frederic Leroy who issued the idea.
9. Chickens Don't Need A Head
Do not get me wrong first, the chicken would rather have a head. However, the fact proves, a chicken named Mike survived 18 months after his head was cut off.
Why, then how can he survive?
Chicken nicknamed "Mike the Headless Chicken" still has enough brainstem to keep animate. He even traveled the United States. As a star.
In his prime, Mike can even earn as much as US $ 4,500 or about Rp 49 million in a month's performance.
10. The Sun Will Be A Giant Diamond
The largest diamonds found are not on Earth, but across the galaxy.
Namely, a dead star named BPM 37093 aka Lucy, which is about 50 light years away from the human planet, in the constellation of Centaurus. The star was discovered in 2004.
The white dwarf star becomes a crystallized carbon block that weighs 5 billion trillion trillion pounds, or the equivalent of a 10 billion trillion trillion carat diamond. So quoted from Space Today.
Scientists suspect, the Sun will also be the same fate after death later, become a diamond lump within 7 billion years.
"You will need a magnifying glass of the Sun to judge this diamond," said astronomer Travis Metcalfe, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
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