fungi communicate electrically, and have a language of as many as 50 words. a single species can have as many as 28,000 different sexes.

in hawaii, there is an orange dictyophora mushroom species that grows near recent lava flows and whose smell causes sexual arousal in women - often to the point of orgasm.

3 different species of fungi have been discovered near the abandoned chernobyl nuclear reactor that feed on radiation.

a newly discovered species of airborne fungal spore called cryptococcus gattii is so small that it's invisible to the naked eye. if you breathe it in, it can kill you, just like it recently did to 6 people in oregon. early symptoms resemble the flu.

ringworm is actually caused by a parasitic fungus.

in the devonian era (about 400 million years ago), mushrooms were 26 feet tall and 3 feet wide.

as a treat to yourself, google images of a mushroom called a clathrus ruber.

the world's largest living organism that we currently know of is a fungus in oregon's blue mountains. it is a single creature that covers 4 square miles, almost all underground, and is more than 8,000 years old.