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• [Science fact 1] Researchers suggest that the shipping industry has artificially distributed jellyfish into nonnative habitats where they then colonize. Ships transport jellyfish around the world in two ways: 1) juvenile jellyfish (polyps) attach to ship hulls and travel with them and 2) ships take on ballast water in originating harbors and then dump their ballast water (along with jellyfish and other organisms) in new waters. Billions of gallons of ballast water are transported annually around the globe.

  Fish, Music, Science

• [Science fact 2] Most bacteria do not visibly 'glow' under UV light and using it to determine how clean a surface is is flawed.

  Science, Technologysource

• [Science fact 3] Sharks do not have ears on the outside of their body, but rather on the inside of their heads.

  Fish, Music, Science

• [Science fact 4] The word "tilapia" isn't the name of a single species of fish; it's a genus. There are about 100 different species of the fish. The word for the most common genus of Tilapia, cichlid, comes from the Latin derivative "thiape," which is the Tswana word for "fish."

  Fish, Music, Science

• [Science fact 5] Crabs are crustaceans (have an exoskeleton) and arthropods (have segmented appendages).

  Fish, Music, Science

• [Science fact 6] Being in love is biochemically the same as having a severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.

  Psychology, Science

• [Science fact 7] The first written account of a shark attack is found in Herodotus’ (c. 484–425 B.C.) description of hordes of “monsters” devouring the shipwrecked sailors of the Persian fleet.

  Fish, Music, Science

• [Science fact 8] The moon does rotate, but the time it takes to rotate around its axis is exactly equal to the time it takes to orbit the Earth and as a consequence, we always see the same side of the Moon. This isn’t a coincidence but this happens due to “tidal locking”, which causes the rotation of an object to sync up with its orbit. The tidal force from the Moon isn’t just making the seas and oceans move around, it also pulls at the solid bits of the Earth, ever so slightly slowing down the rotation of the Earth. If the Sun wouldn’t gobble up the Earth when it expands in 4-5 billion years, then some 50 billion years from now the Earth would be tidally locked to the Moon at which point the same side of the Earth would always be facing the Moon and the length of a day would be much longer than the 24 hours it is now.

  Science, Spacesource

• [Science fact 9] Michael Houghton, the co-discoverer of the hep-C virus declined the $100,000 Gairdner award in 2013 because they wouldn't include two other co-discoverers.

  Science, Technologysource

• [Science fact 10] In 2006, astronomers spotted a huge cloud of fiery gas which is 3 million light-years in diameter and hotter than the center of our Sun. The gas ball contains more matter than a 1,000 billion Suns.

  Science, Spacesource

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