Fred's Fun Fact: Sharks!

Listen to this fun fact about sharks!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Thread Show is on Fred's Fun Fact. Fred's fun
so much, I'm not sure if it's useful information because
it's not my job. It didn't have to be useful.
It's just called fun fact. It's not called it's not
called useful fun fact. But certain types of sharks will

(00:25):
enter a state of tonic immobility due to shock if
you flip them over. So flipping over a shark will
render it temporarily immobile. Wow. Some killer whales have been
recorded to exploit this weakness and purposefully flip it over.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yes, I like this because you know, everybody's scared of
a shark. But like, if I just flip you over, bro,
you worthless.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Because if a shark is that close to me, obviously,
the first thing I'm gonna do is touch it.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yeah, come here, I'm gonna just flip you on your back.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Yeah, and then it just passes out, and then you
just go ahead and little swim away, you know, just
go ahead and just you know, look a couple of apps,
and then before long you're fine. Simple flip it over.
The same is true with me, by the way, if
you flip me over, I become a tonically immobile Depending
on how much of a heavy, more freadshell Next,