#reallyrealsciencefacts

Everyone can breathe underwater but only once.

Neil deGrasse Tyson lives in an alternate timeline where everything he says is true and is well received, prompting him to tweet more in our timeline.

Up until four to seven months of age, object impermanence renders babies incapable of knowing that things exist even when they can't see them. For this reason, babies hate going to sleep in fear that the world is going to disappear. This fear, whether dormant or active, is what keeps children from wanting to nap.

Wishing on a star seldom generates results because the stars chosen are often too far away. The Sun is much closer and therefore has vastly superior wish conductivity.

When coyotes howl as a collective, it means that a coyote from another pack has crossed into their territory, similarly to how babies will scream endlessly when an enemy baby is nearby.

In 1605, Daryll Shuerning discovered the narwhat, a species of gnat that unexplainably resembles a narwhal, which is native to the Bolivian border of Peru. Shuerning's discovery was later discredited because too many people were mispronouncing it as "nar-what" instead of "narwh-at."

Everyone looks like thumbs. Because of this, recent breakthroughs in iPhone technology cannot differentiate between thumbs and faces.

Fruits and vegetables have multiple different stages in life: seedling, unripe, ripe, old, and mold. Some go into an extra stage known as "mipe" in which the fruit/veggie has molded and decayed to the point of being edible once more. This process is what was used to turn milk into cheese.