What creatures have eight legs, nine brains, and dozens of fun and fascinating facts about them? Octopuses, of course. (Wait, is octopuses or octopi? Octopodes, perhaps?) However interesting we think our suction-cupped, cephalopodic friends are, we’re probably selling them short. That’s the contention of Sarah, a comedic content creator on TikTok who’s been sharing everything she’s learned about octopuses, because they’re far more bizarre than we might think. “However impressed or fascinated you are by octopuses, it’s honestly probably not enough,” she says. “We are severely underreacting to octopuses collectively.” Once you see her video, it’s clear she’s not wrong. @sarahmakesmelaugh Octopuses are fascinating and I DO want to hold a tiny guy if possible just putting that out in to the universe ??#creatorsearchinsights #octopus #weirdanimals #animalfacts #didyouknow ♬ Quirky Sneaky Pizzicato for Inide Comedies(1192187) – Kenji Ueda What she actually covers in the video With a hilariously understated sense of humor, Sarah shares facts like the idea that octopuses don’t have tentacles, as many of us have been led to believe, but arms instead. Tentacles have suckers only at the end, while an octopus’s arms have them from top to bottom. “They decorate their front yards with shells and other shiny things they find in the ocean,” Sarah says, adding, “I wonder if they judge other octopuses for how they decorate their front yard. Like, is there an octopus HOA?” Sarah points out that The Beatles’ song “Octopus’s Garden” was inspired by this delightful fact. I’d like to be, under the sea…Listen as 'Octopus’s Garden' evolves — from the rehearsal to the final master  pic.twitter.com/qJItnY6PIY— The Beatles (@thebeatles) November 11, 2025 Many of us know that octopuses are smart, but we may not know that they have a brain in each arm in addition to the brain in their heads, which is shaped like a donut. They can solve mazes and complete tricky tasks. And if their beak can fit through a hole, so can their whole body. “So a fully grown giant Pacific octopus, which can literally be 30 feet long, can fit through a hole the size of a lemon,” says Sarah. “And I don’t care for that, particularly. I would never say that to an octopus’s face because, evidently, they can recognize us, which I find unsettling. Note to self: Do not be mean to an octopus.” Because each arm has its own brain, it can operate independently, complete with its own sensory system. Each of those arms has its own brain? Photo credit: Canva “I feel like they’re smarter than us,” Sarah says. “Are we confident they’re not smarter than us? For instance, they will prank their prey. You know the joke where like old men will tap you on one shoulder, but surprise, they’re at the other shoulder? Octopus do that. If they’re hunting a shrimp, they’ll tap it on the faraway shoulder so the shrimp runs directly into them. Like, ‘gotcha!’ I don’t want octopus to do gotcha.” On a positive note, Sarah shows some examples of exquisitely colorful octopuses, though some of the most “fancy and beautiful” ones are also highly venomous. It turns out there’s even more That may have been the end of Sarah’s video, but she wasn’t finished. There’s a part two that features blanket octopuses, the female superheroes of the sea. And that’s not even the wildest part: @sarahmakesmelaugh Replying to @LalainID did yall know about the blanket octopus and didn’t tell me? Except those of you who did thank you ? #octopus #animalfacts #science #learnontiktok #learnwithme ♬ L.Boccherini, Minuet from String Quartet No.5 in F major – AllMusicGallery   A male blanket octopus is basically an inch tall and the female can grow to over six feet. The males can fit inside the pupil of the female’s eye. What?! Basically, their only job is to produce sperm, which just raises way too many questions. Sarah also talks about the mimic octopus, which she calls “the Jafar of the ocean” because it’s basically a sorcerer (and one of them genuinely looks like Jafar from Aladdin). And then came part three That wasn’t all. Even after the second video, she still wasn’t done. Part three was every bit as fascinating, terrifying, wonderful, and chuckle-worthy as the first two (and also slightly NSFW in the most PG way possible): @sarahmakesmelaugh More Octopus species, this could go on forever y’all ? #octopus #weirdanimals #learnwithme #funfacts #creatorsearchinsights ♬ Gymnopedie No. 1, Slowly, image of wave(1180783) – Dai Hentai Fujishima The blob octopus? Who even knew? The eighth-arm situation is too much. Sarah was 100% right. We are, collectively, not reacting to octopuses nearly as strongly as we should be. You can follow Sarah (@SarahMakesMeLaugh) on TikTok. This article originally appeared last year. It has been updated. The post Woman says we are ‘severely underreacting’ to octopuses, then proves she’s not wrong appeared first on Upworthy.