Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its entire brain. Butterflies taste their food using their feet. Wombats are the only animals that produce cube-shaped poop. Cows produce more milk when they listen to relaxing classical music. Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they do not drift apart. A shrimp's heart is located in its head. Crows can recognize individual human faces and hold grudges for years. Polar bear fur is actually transparent, not white; it only looks white because it reflects light. Sloths move so slowly that green algae grows directly on their fur. Giraffes and humans both have the exact same number of neck vertebrae (seven), despite the giraffe's long neck. Flamingos can only eat when their heads are completely upside down. Honey is the only natural food that never spoils or goes bad. Pineapples take roughly two years to grow. Bananas, avocados, and tomatoes are scientifically classified as berries, while strawberries are not. Human Body and Science Humans are born with about 350 bones, but they fuse into 206 bones by the time you reach adulthood. You are taller in the morning than at night because gravity compresses your spine while you walk around during the day. It is impossible to tickle yourself because your cerebellum predicts the sensation and tells your brain to ignore it. Your tongue print is completely unique to you, much like a fingerprint. Women tend to blink nearly twice as often as men do. A single lead pencil has enough graphite to draw a line that is 35 miles long. In zero gravity, a candle flame burns in a round, blue shape instead of a pointed flicker. Metal snows on the distant planet Venus. The universe's average color is a soft beige tone that scientists officially named "Cosmic Latte". Lightning can heat the air around it to 50,000°F, which is five times hotter than the surface of the sun. History and Geography The Eiffel Tower grows up to 15 centimeters taller during hot summer days due to thermal expansion of the iron. Antarctica is the largest desert in the entire world, despite being covered in ice, because it gets almost no rain or snow. Sudan actually has more ancient pyramids than Egypt does (over 255 compared to Egypt's 138). The Great Wall of China is over 5,000 miles long; walking the entire length would take about 18 months. The U.S. Department of Defense is the largest single employer in the world, with over 3 million workers. Central Park in New York City was bought by the city in 1853 for $5 million. The first hand-held mobile phone call was made on April 3, 1973, in New York City. The Hawaiian alphabet contains only 12 letters. The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just under two minutes between two Scottish islands. Pop Culture and Everyday Life The "Wilhelm Scream"—a famous recycled sound effect of a man screaming—has been used in hundreds of movies, including Star Wars and Indiana Jones, since 1951. Toy Story (1995) was the first full-length feature film ever made entirely with computer-generated imagery. The word "mafia" is never spoken out loud in the entire movie The Godfather due to protests from civic groups during production. Disneyland does not sell chewing gum anywhere in the park to prevent it from sticking to the pavement. The time 10:10 is displayed on almost all watch and clock advertisements because it frames the brand logo nicely and looks like a smile. Household dust is made up largely of dead skin cells shed by humans and pets. The artificial sweetener Splenda (sucralose) was discovered by accident when an assistant misheard a lab instruction to "test" a chemical as "taste" it. Netflix was founded after Reed Hastings was charged a $40 late fee for a VHS rental of Apollo 13. Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist named William Morrison in 1897. Strange and Quirky Trivia Whip cracking sounds happen because the tip of the whip moves faster than the speed of sound, creating a tiny sonic boom. Hippopotamus sweat is bright red and acts as a natural sunscreen and moisturizer. A natural gas fire in Azerbaijan called Yanar Dag has been burning continuously for over 4,000 years. The world's smallest park is Mill Ends Park in Portland, Oregon, which measures just two feet across. A Polish army artillery unit during World War II officially adopted a Syrian brown bear named Wojtek, giving him a rank, serial number, and rations to help carry heavy ammunition crates.
oh no... R-run away... F-Felix! Oh, hi, I'm Vortex, your go to curse giver-no! GET OUT OF MY HEAD, IMMA STUFF YOU IN ANOTHER HORXCRUX! oh no... POSSESED MODE ACTIVATED hahaa.... Hello... I'm Vortex.. your personal curse applier... *looks down at you and cackles*. *As you are set aflame... and devoured by darkness* you are my plaything now... *cackling while looking down at you*... *coming closer*. hmm..~ easy souls.... Look at you, so weak... oh well, you are "mortal" for a reason... anyways... STUPID... VORTEX... YOU- don't worry about that insect, she doesn't matter, instead- VORTEX, YOUR IMPENDING DOOM APPROACHES- what, you think you can summon The Moon Lord??? Cuthulu themselves??? Oh how ignorant you are... anyways, you there... mortals... I will answer your questions, and I will help you with revenge, which will it be? I can do things that even the gods themselves can't, or maybe just won't do, and I can cause any chaos you wish for... VORTEX, YOU WONT GET AWAY WITH TH- oh, but i already have, you just haven't noticed... we have Solar on Helios, Stardust on... you guessed it, Star, and Nebula on... what was it? Buddy? Anyway, the end is near for that little upstart nation of yours. It shouldn't take much longer, maybe 3 days... until we burn it to the ground!!! Down with the winged, we don't need them. RISING UP, THE VORTEXIANS!!! MY PRETTIES!!!