Surprising Facts About Nature and Bodies

Bananas are berries but strawberries aren't. In botanical terms, true berries come

from one flower with one ovary, making bananas qualify while strawberries don't.

Your brain uses twenty percent of your body's oxygen despite being only two percent of your

weight. Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found three thousand year old honey in Egyptian

tombs that was still edible. Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.

Two hearts pump blood to the gills while the third pumps it to the rest of the body.

When you blush, your stomach lining also turns red. The same adrenaline response that makes

your cheeks flush affects your digestive system simultaneously.