Ten unnecessarily retarded facts you're still glad you know now

No idea what you should do with this info. I don't even know myself. And yet it's nice to know. Or something. With today once again on sale: crazy trinkets about the animal kingdom. Of the very entertaining kind this time, if I may say so. Here it comes.

1. In seahorses, the males are pregnant instead of the females. During mating, the female leaves her eggs in a small pouch of the male. This makes them also the eeeeeenly animals on earth where the males carry the young. Cute.

2. Leeches have three hundred teeth. And three separate jaws, with a hundred tiny super sharp teeth in each jaw to bite through the skin and – Sorry. We. Don't. Want. To. Know. This. Kind. Of. Information. At. All.

3. Goats have rectangular pupils. This is to avoid predators. They can see a large area at the same time and thus plan their escape in advance. They have a bit of an advantage.

4. Horses use facial expressions to communicate. Ah gosh. They are just like humans. They move the muscles around their nostrils, lips, and eyes to create different expressions with which they can ‘talk’. So far, researchers have discovered seventeen different types of facial expressions.

5. Whew: the eyes of reindeer are gold in the summer and blue in the winter. This way, reindeer adapt to three months of summer full of sunlight, followed by three months of dark winter.

6. Ah gosh, alpacas can die from loneliness. The beesies are so attached to each other's company that they get sick and eventually die when they are alone. That's why you should buy alpacas in pairs or in a whole herd.

7. There are – F***ING excusez le mot – flying snakes. Danielle Heerkens and Lilian Brijl; I wouldn't read any further if I were you. Okay. Those snakes, called chrysopelea, are scary, thin, show off by falling at once and then ‘glide’ on a kind of air waves. Just check this video. Swallow. 

8. Rats laugh when you tickle them. No shit. If you tickle rats on their neck, they seem to emit high sounds. So high that we as humans can't hear them. Except with special equipment. But the bitches do laugh.

9. Chameleons have the longest tongues in the animal kingdom. A chameleon's tongue can be twice as long as its body. They unfurl the organ – yuck – by the way at a speed of twenty kilometers per hour to catch their prey.

10. A cockroach can survive decapitation. Because, uh, they breathe through air holes in their body, which are not controlled by their brain. A decapitated cockroach dies about a week later from thirst and hunger.