TIL: These White Sand Beaches Aren’t What You Think | Today I Learned

the white sand beaches that are all over
the South Pacific are mostly the poo
bumphead parrotfish so a single adult
individual can eat almost 5 tons of
coral annually and when they poo it out
it sort of creates these clouds of white
sand that ultimately washes up on those
beaches and creates by saying think
about that next time you’re wiggling
your toes and white sand beaches we
didn’t know why the ocean was salty how
it got its chemistry until fairly
recently children would ask you why is
the ocean salty we’d say next question