Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #421: Moonmoon.
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Jonathan, a Seychelles giant tortoise, is the world's oldest known living land animal. As of 2025, he is estimated to be around 192 years old.

Scientists have found that being in love activates the brain’s reward system in a way that can actually reduce physical pain.

The stay apparatus is a system of muscles, ligaments, and tendons in horses that allows them to stand on three legs while resting the fourth. This unique adaptation helps horses sleep while standing up and reduces wear and tear on their legs.

On September 3, 2002, astronomers discovered an asteroid with an unusual orbit around Earth. Further analysis of its trajectory and spectrographic evidence—specifically, the presence of titanium dioxide used in Apollo missions—revealed that it was actually the third stage of the Apollo 12 rocket, launched in 1969.

A humorous concept among the scientific community, often referred to as 'The Pizza Radius' or the 'Thermonuclear Culinary Zone,' suggests that for every nuclear explosion, there exists a precise mathematical distance where the heat flux would be just right to perfectly cook a frozen pizza.

Galagos, also known as bush babies, have large, forward- -facing eyes that are fixed in their sockets, meaning they can't rotate their eyeballs. To compensate, they have extremely flexible necks that allow them to turn their heads almost 180 degrees.

Sperm whales have two nostrils, but unlike most animals, they are asymmetrically positioned. The left nostril is visible on the outside and forms the single blowhole used for breathing. The right nostril is hidden inside the whale’s massive head and is actually part of its complex echolocation system.

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Sperm whales cuddle. These deeply social animals frequently swim close together, rubbing their bodies against one another. This tactile behavior is a form of bonding and likely provides comfort, much like a cuddle would for humans.

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The Universe is shaped like a giant condom.

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #406: Eyeball Planets.
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Otters often toss small rocks between their paws, flipping and spinning them with surprising skill. Scientists believe this behavior may help them stay sharp for cracking open shellfish, or it could simply be a way to pass the time until their next meal.

Banana slugs are hermaphroditic, meaning they have both male and female organs. When mating, their genitalia can sometimes get stuck together. If this happens, one slug will chew off the other’s penis to separate them.

Our galaxy resides within a region of space known as the Local Group. Surrounding this area is a massive structure called the Council of Giants - a ring of 12 galaxies spanning 300 million light-years.

Animals like elephants, pandas, cows, and even donkeys eat plants that are high in cellulose, the key ingredient for paper. However, their digestive systems don’t fully break down these fibers, so their poop can be processed into paper.

In 1983, asteroid 4147 Lennon was named in memory of John Lennon. A few years later, asteroids 4148 McCartney, 4149 Harrison, and 4150 Starr were named after the rest of the Beatles.

Sloths climb down from their trees to poop about once a week. Once down they engage in a "poop dance" — they dig a small hole, squat, and wiggle their little butts to release up to a third of their body weight in waste.

One of the strangest phenomena about Venus is that its atmosphere rotates up to 60 times faster than the planet itself, a phenomenon called super-rotation.

As winter ends and testosterone levels drop, the bone tissue at the base of a deer’s antlers weakens, causing the antlers to fall off. This shedding is part of a natural cycle; new antlers grow in spring, covered in a blood-rich tissue called velvet, which helps nourish growth.

There are more than 5,000 mammal species and only six are known to go through menopause; humans, narwhals, belugas, orcas, false killer whales and short-finned pilot whales.

Some researchers are investigating whether other species, such as certain elephants or primates, may exhibit menopause-like traits, though these are not confirmed.