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Interesting Facts About Octopuses Part I.
1.) Octopuses have 3 hearts.
2.) Octopuses do NOT have 8 arms. They have 6 arms and 2 legs.
3.) Around 300 species of Octopuses are recognized.
4.) A baby octopus is about the size of a flea when it is born.
5.) The oldest octopus fossil is 296 million years old.
6.) Octopus wrestling was a popular sport in the 1960s. A diver would fight an octopus in shallow water and drag it to the surface.
7.) Octopuses are eaten alive in Korea.
8.) It's illegal in many countries to perform surgery on an octopus without anesthesia due to their intelligence.
9.) The Blue-ringed octopus is one of the world's most venomous marine animals: it can kill you in one bite, there is no antivenom.
10.) Despite their walnut-sized brain, octopuses are highly intelligent, possibly more so than any other order of invertebrates.
11.) An octopus will eat its own arms if it gets really hungry.
12.) If two octopuses approach each other and display dark colors
the encounter is likely to escalate to physical confrontation.
13.) Instead of mating, female octopuses will sometimes strangle males and eat them.