Interesting facts about sharks surprise you

Sharks are one of the most dangerous marine creatures of the ocean. They are scary assassins for sea creatures as well as humans. Besides the danger they have very interesting things that you didn't expect.

1. Great white sharks eat 11 tons of food each year, while the amount of human food consumed during this time is only about half a ton.

2. More than 80% of people who are bitten by sharks still survive and tell the story they once experienced.

3. Humans kill about 73 million sharks every year. Meanwhile sharks kill 12 people every year.

A great white shark.(Photo: Eric Hanauer / Alamy)

4. When it is almost time to give birth, the mother shark will no longer have an appetite to make sure not to eat their children.

5. Sharks replace teeth many times . Their teeth are not lost due to tooth decay but are often stuck on prey.

6. Although many people think that sharks are the most dangerous animal in the world, in fact, every year, more deaths from burning wasps or bites are due to shark attacks. The possibility of you dying if a coconut falls more if you are attacked by a shark!

7. Tiger sharks, bull bulls and big white sharks are the ones that cause most human attacks. They prey on the same size as humans and have fatal bites.

8. Great white shark is the notorious human predator. However, they do not like the taste of humans , but often bite and then drop the victim.

9. Sharks throw prey to tear meat. Therefore, we should stick to sharks when bitten if we do not want to be bitten off the limbs.

10. For defense, humans can punch the shark's nose hard or poke at their eyes. Sharks don't want to have trouble finding food.

11. Whale sharks can live up to 100 years!

12. Sharks have a sharp sense of smell that it can detect a drop of blood in an Olympic-sized swimming pool.

13. Sharks will sink if they stop swimming.

14. Greenland sharks eat polar bear meat and have a lifespan of up to 200 years.

15. As teeth grow, tiger sharks start attacking and eating each other as soon as they are in the embryo form in the womb.

16. Short-finned Mako sharks can outgrow a maximum speed faster than a Porsche.

17. Great white sharks can swim around for months without eating.

18. Most people often think of sharks as babies. In fact, a female shark to adulthood can lay eggs up to 14 inches (35 cm) in size, equivalent to a large pizza, nourished eggs in the mother's body until bloom. Sharks are the world's largest egg-laying animals.

19. Sharks are thought to appear more than 420 million years ago, before the dinosaurs appeared.

20. Sharks actually possess extremely sensitive audiophiles that can hear prey from distances up to 900 meters. This feature makes sharks one of the most terrifying predators of the ocean.

21. When a mother shark is giving birth, the first sharks born will eat the remaining eggs when they are still not hatched. This happens on both sides of the uterus, resulting in only two sharks surviving.

22. A surprising fact is that sharks are very diverse in size . Do you know whale sharks can reach 50 feet (15 meters) long, while lantern sharks are only seven inches (15cm) long.