25 Strange Facts That You’ll Never Be Able To Get Out Of Your Head

21. Astronaut Michael Collins took a picture of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin in the Lunar Module, with Earth in the background, meaning he took a picture of every human who ever lived, except for himself.

 
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22. Babies are born with about 300 bones, but as they get older those bones fuse together to form 206 bones.

 
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23. In the 16th and 17th centuries, many Europeans thought that eating human bones, blood, and fat would cure certain illnesses, so they stole mummies from Egyptian tombs and robbed graves to get the bodies.

 
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24. Turritopsis dohrnii, aka the immortal jellyfish, is a species that ages in reverse and then restarts its life cycle over…forever.

 
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25. And people jerk themselves awake while sleeping because their body thinks they’re dead – it’s their brain’sway of making sure they’re still alive, since their heart rate is so slow.

 
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