Deep Sea Animals Use Headlights

Really. Ninety percent of deep sea marine life use some form of bioluminescence to either attract or repulse others, or to communicate. Sin...

Your Eyelashes Are Inhabited

Really. Tiny mites live in the roots of your eyelashes. They live head-down, feeding on secretions and dead skin debris. If you have oily sk...

Vegas Loser As Gambling Capital

Really. In 2002 China lifted a 40 year monopoly on casinos in Macau, which is poised to exceed $6 billion this year, overtaking Las Vegas ...

You Never Forget A Face

Not Really. But researchers at Vanderbilt University have found that you do remember faces better than other kinds of images. "Our re...

Your Veins Would Stretch 100,000 Miles

Really. An adult has 100,000 miles of blood vessels - enough to stretch around the equator four times. Most of the blood vessels in the hu...

Cleopatra Was a Dog

Really. Well, lets be more kind and say she didn't exactly look like Elizabeth Taylor. And, to be fair, her Roman lover Mark Anthony ...

Daily Starbursts Release More Energy Than Entire Universe

Really. First detected by a military satellite looking for Russian nuclear tests in space, gamma ray bursts occur somewhere in the univers...