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8 unusual facts about Octopus


Al Sobotka

Sobotka is also famous for being the employee responsible for handling any octopodes thrown on the ice (see Legend of the Octopus) during a game.

Gadsar Lake

The shepherds grazing their folks in the outskirts of Gadsar lake during summers believe that, there lives a Lake Monster, a freshwater Octopus which drags the creatures from shores by its tentackles into the water.

Luis Arconada

Aged 16 he joined local giants Real Sociedad's youth ranks, going on to play there his entire career and being known as "El pulpo" (Octopus in English).

Martín Zúñiga

Nicknamed El Pulpo (The Octopus), Zúñiga has also been capped for the Mexican national team.

Nir Davidovich

After his performance he received grades of 10 in the Israeli press (just seven players received grade of 10 in the history of the Israeli press) and was dubbed "The Octopus" by the Spanish press.

Remla

A three-day Octopus Festival in March marks the start of the octopus fishing season.

Survivorship curve

One example of a species that follows this type of survivorship curve is the Octopus.

Tacoma Narrows

Some of the largest octopuses in the world, the Giant Pacific Octopus, live among the ruins of the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge.


Alistair Smythe

However due to Superior Spider-Man (identical to Doctor Octopus scheme in "Dying Wish") having already done this, he has equipped his head with armoured plating.

Captain Silver

The stages are different and the bosses include new foes such as Frankenstein's monster and a giant octopus.

Charles H. Schneer

Together they made It Came From Beneath The Sea (1955), about a giant octopus that wreaks havoc on the Golden Gate Bridge.

Deborah Chancellor

Her work includes Harriet Tubman (A&C Black, 2013), Code Breakers (Barrington Stoke, 2009), Escape from Colditz (Barrington Stoke, 2007) and two collections of illustrated children's stories, I love reading Phonics (Octopus Publishing, 2012) and Reading Heroes (Parragon, 2008).

Diemen

The three public schools are De Octopus, De Venser, and 't Palet.

Great hammerhead

An active predator with a varied diet, known prey of the great hammerhead include invertebrates such as crabs, lobsters, squid, and octopus, bony fishes such as tarpon, sardines, sea catfishes, toadfish, porgies, grunts, jacks, croakers, groupers, flatfishes, boxfishes, and porcupine fishes, and smaller sharks such as smoothhounds.

Grimpoteuthis

The octopuses of the genus Grimpoteuthis are also known as Dumbo octopuses from the ear-like fins protruding from the top of their head-like bodies, resembling the ears of Walt Disney's flying elephant Dumbo.

Histoctopus

The "web margins" on the arms, which are the genus's most distinctive feature and for which it is named, are found in three other octopus genera (Velodona, Graneledone and Pteroctopus), but they are readily distinguished by other characteristics.

Jim Keith

American author best known for the books "Black Helicopters Over America" and "The Octopus", co-written with Kenn Thomas, which details conspiracy theories around the death of reporter Danny Casolaro.

Kupe

During their subsequent journeys, they overcame numerous monsters and sea demons, including the great octopus named as Te Wheke-a-Muturangi, and discovered New Zealand.

Lady Octopus

Lady Octopus has been hired by Walter Declun (a former member of Damage Control) to assist Absorbing Man, Hydro-Man, Killer Shrike, a Mandroid, Porcupine II, and Rock to defend him from Black Panther and the Fantastic Four after they uncovered his plot to destabilize all of Wakanda on Doctor Doom's behalf.

Legend of the Octopus

The practice started April 15, 1952 when Pete and Jerry Cusimano, brothers and storeowners in Detroit's Eastern Market, hurled an octopus into the rink of The Old Red Barn.

Lorin District, Berkeley, California

Lorin is mentioned and is the setting for one scene in former University of California student Frank Norris' book The Octopus (1903).

Octopine

Octopine has been isolated from the muscle tissue of invertebrates such as octopus, Pecten maximus and Sipunculus nudus where it functions as an analog of lactic acid.

Octopus Hole

Similar to the close-by Sund Rock conservation area, Octopus Hole is very popular with Scuba divers who enjoy diving the walls associated with the site to view various underwater creatures, including but not limited to Lingcod, Giant Pacific Octopus, Wolf Eel, sea cucumber, and nudibranch.

Octopus Media Technology

In July 2009, following a distribution deal between OctopusMT and The Press Association, The Independent launched an online UK video news service provided by octopus.

Octopus wrestling

H. Allen Smith wrote an article for True magazine in 1964, collected in Low Man Rides Again (1973), about a gentleman named O'Rourke whom he dubs the "Father of Octopus Wrestling".

One Man in My Heart

After the unexpected commercial success of the first single from Octopus, Tell Me When, East West Records wanted another commercial, radio-friendly song to follow up with.

Opisthoteuthis californiana

The Flapjack Octopus has been made famous by Pearl, the pink octopus character in the Disney/Pixar film Finding Nemo.

The video game Kirby's Dream Land 3 fratures a flapjack octopus named Chuchu, though most fans mistake her for a slime or a jellyfish.

Paul Griggs

When Octopus disbanded, Griggs joined vocal group Guys 'n' Dolls and their first single "There's a Whole Lot of Loving" reached number two in the UK Singles Chart.

Pawn Hearts

A live, in-studio version of "Squid/Octopus" was added to the H to He, Who Am the Only One reissue, while the Pawn Hearts reissue contains three of the band members' personal projects, "Angle of Incidents", "Ponker's Theme", and "Diminutions", credited to Evans, Jackson, and Banton, respectively.

Superman vs. the Amazing Spider-Man

Octopus has also encased it in a fake blimp facade (it flies by electromagnetic means) so as to enable him to steal fortunes under its cover, providing him with a potentially inexhaustible supply of money with which to fuel his world-conquering schemes.

The Life You Can Save

The author compares individuals like Paul Farmer (a physician that the author describes as making many sacrifices) with billionaire Paul Allen (who, Singer says, spent $200 million to build the Octopus — a 413 foot personal yacht that requires a crew of sixty).

Wacky WallWalker

Before its introduction in the United States, Ken Hakuta received in the mail several sticky octopus-like toys from his mother, who lived in Japan.

YBNL

To promote the album, Olamide held an album launch party at Octopus Club in Yaba, Lagos.


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