[later12]

The fact that human beings have created a series of shapes in the form of symbols which, using the right combination, unlock and delineate our thoughts and emotions. We unenthusiastically call these "words".

Laughter. A sort of whinnying noise our body makes when it loudly exhales in response to a stimulus which is funny. The average baby does this 300 times per day.

What other ordinary things are there that often go unremarked, but are quite marvelous, unusual and/or impressive when you think about them

[steddyeddy]

A queen bee is genetically identical to a worker bee. The difference in size and shape happens when certain larvae are selected randomly and fed royal jelly which causes them to turn into queens.

[SafeSurfer]

Originally Posted by steddyeddy

A queen bee is genetically identical to a worker bee. The difference in size and shape happens when certain larvae are selected randomly and fed royal jelly which causes them to turn into queens.

While KY jelly can turn humans into queens.

[actuallylike]

I love stuff like this!

[Pedant]

Semen: the best lubricant ever.

[bijapos]

Spiders silk and Spiders webs.


Or indeed anything in nature.

[Knex.]

Like the OP said, I've always found languages and their creation to be fascinating.

Also, space. I never fail to be amazed whenever I take the time to sit and gaze upwards at the sky at night. Its something I feel I, and many others, take for granted and yet the more you think about it the more incredible it becomes.

[who what when]

Pretty much everything in nature is mind blowing when you really think about it!

[muppetkiller]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18449711


That 40,000 years ago people were vandalizing other peoples property lol

[ScumLord]

The human hand is amazing. They're so good I got two of them.

[hardCopy]

Smart Phones. I still think they're bloody amazing.

[later12]

Originally Posted by muppetkiller

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18449711


That 40,000 years ago people were vandalizing other peoples property lol

That panel of hands is amazing
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/image...8_60910452.jpg

What made these people want to do that? There had to be some sort of confoundment of their own, or some need to understand the physical world for them to have painted the impression of their hands so that they might stand back and look at it. That's an ordinary curiosity that is amazing. Where did we get that need not only to understand, but to communicate and share the resulting information? Why did it develop?

[Keno 92]

When looking up at stars you are literally looking at the past. The light from the stars take time to get to our eyes. When looking at some stars you are looking at light that left thousands of years ago.

Amazing.

[southcentralts]

Electricity - once thought to have no more potential than for cheap parlor tricks, now dominate our lives.

[Einhard]

That the house martins that have made their home in my shed each summer over the past four years will fly tens of thousands of miles to sub Saharan Africa come the Autumn, over-winter there, and manage to pinpoint the same shed from millions of others ten months later. Fuppin amazing.