14 Geeks Share The Craziest Science Trivia They Know

Because fluid dynamics is stupid, particles can be pulled up a downward-flowing stream of water, contaminating the source. You can pour from a pitcher into a glass, without touching the vessels, and have bits from the glass wind up in the pitcher.https://t.co/tMc2fGJjFC pic.twitter.com/fOvTVdI24r

— 🇳🇴Moon-faced Assassin of Joy🇺🇸 (@NomeDaBarbarian) May 31, 2018

Godel’s Incompleteness Theorem! No system of logic that is complete can be accurate, and no system of logic that is accurate can be complete.

— Legion➡️[FC]19-20 (@AzazelAfterDark) May 31, 2018

By far most of the mass of your body doesn't come from the mass of the fundamental particles you are made off (quarks and electrons), but from the energy stored in the bindings between them.

— Mathias Panzenböck (@bloodyalbatross) May 31, 2018

Greenland sharks, which can live to be hundreds of years old, eat polar bears and reindeer.

— Dr. David Shiffman (@WhySharksMatter) May 31, 2018

one I gotta deal with at work: TIN WHISKERS. in space, the metal bits in circuits grow weird microscopic tendrils, and nobody really understands why pic.twitter.com/Hw0Z46SIVK

— Katie Tiedrich (@katietiedrich) May 31, 2018

Yes!! They vibrate to cook them when they attack the hive!

— Kory Bing 🦕 FC Table 12 West (@korybing) May 31, 2018

Squirrels are completely immune to the rabies virus. Can't contract or carry it.

— Goth Witch Sel (@Selnyam) May 31, 2018

Vulture Bees are a species of bee that eat carrion instead of nectar. They then store the dead meat in their stomach and vomit it out for their larvae as honey.

Yes, there are bees that make MEAT HONEY. https://t.co/VZvASM113J

— Gus Mitchell (@GusticeLeague) May 31, 2018

Horseshoe crabs (and a few other invertebrate organisms) have blood that functions nearly identically to ours, but it's blue instead of red because the molecule that fixes oxygen for them is copper-based hemocyanin rather than iron-based hemoglobin.

— autumnal garbage (@lysandraws) May 31, 2018

Each second there are about 100 billion solar neutrinos passing through every square centimeter of your body, basically not interacting with you at all.

— Mathias Panzenböck (@bloodyalbatross) May 31, 2018

The deepest caves in the world goes a mile and a half down into the earth - which crazy - and one takes an 8 mile course to get there. https://t.co/TLDPbWoVEghttps://t.co/f8IFb8jkeY

— 🇳🇴Moon-faced Assassin of Joy🇺🇸 (@NomeDaBarbarian) May 31, 2018

lonomia obliqua caterpillars. Venomous to kill an adult human, by making them bleed out internally, over a week after envenomation. It's so over the top and frankly unnecessary.

— Rachel (@The_NobleWoman) May 31, 2018

There's a fungus called chorioactis that is found in only two places: pars of NE Texas, and the Nara prefecture in Japan, and no one knows how that happened

— Docshado (@Drdocsir) May 31, 2018

Hydras tear themselves a new mouth opening every time they eat. https://t.co/A3Lv16sVJd

— Mindy Weisberger (@LaMinda) May 31, 2018