October 23, 2026
Five Bits of Maths That Feel Wrong But Are Not
Why 23 people in a room is enough for a shared birthday, why you should always swap doors, and why folding paper 42 times would reach the Moon.
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Facts & Curiosities
October 23, 2026
What Those Bits of Everyday Objects Are Actually For
The hole in a pen lid, the tiny extra pocket on your jeans, the ridges on the edge of a coin, and the arrow next to your fuel gauge.
October 22, 2026
The Deep Sea in Numbers
How deep the deepest trench goes, what the pressure does down there, how much of the ocean we have actually mapped, and why most of the animals glow.
October 22, 2026
Nine Facts About Space That Sound Impossible
A planet where a day lasts longer than a year, a mountain three times the height of Everest, and a spoonful of star that weighs as much as a mountain range.
October 22, 2026
Six Ways Your Senses Are Quietly Lying to You
There is a hole in your vision you never notice, your eyes go blind every time they move, and what you hear changes depending on what you are looking at.
October 22, 2026
How Long Things Really Take
Sunlight takes eight minutes to reach you but thousands of years to escape the Sun, and a plastic bottle outlasts everyone who has ever drunk from it.
October 21, 2026
Twelve Food Facts Worth Knowing
Carrots were purple, bananas are mildly radioactive, almonds are not nuts, and the most expensive spice in the world is picked by hand one thread at a time.
September 26, 2026
Why Pluto Stopped Being a Planet
Pluto did not change. The definition did, and only because astronomers kept finding more objects like it. What actually happened in 2006, and why the answer is eight.
September 25, 2026
Twelve Animal Facts That Sound Completely Made Up
Wombat cubes, immortal jellyfish, shrimp that punch at the speed of a bullet, and the bird that sleeps mid-flight — all true, with the reasons why.
September 25, 2026
The Human Body in Numbers
Bones, beats, blood, blinks and breaths. The figures that come up in quizzes, the ones usually quoted wrongly, and what they mean.
September 25, 2026
How the Days of the Week Got Their Names
Four English days are named after Norse gods, two after the sun and moon, and one after a Roman. The full derivation, and why French and Spanish look so different.
September 25, 2026
Why Is the Sea Salty?
Rain is fresh, rivers are fresh, and they both drain into the sea. So where does the salt come from, why does it not keep rising, and why is the Dead Sea so much saltier?
September 24, 2026
Where Everyday Phrases Actually Come From
Fifteen common sayings traced to their real origin — and the popular explanations that turn out to be invented, including almost every acronym story you have heard.
September 24, 2026
How Leap Years Actually Work
Every four years, except every hundred, except every four hundred. Why 1900 was not a leap year and 2000 was, and what the extra day is correcting.
September 24, 2026
Why There Are Sixty Seconds in a Minute
Everything else went metric. Time did not. The answer is Babylonian, involves counting on finger bones, and explains why a circle has 360 degrees too.
September 24, 2026
Why Your Keyboard Says QWERTY
The layout was designed for a machine with physical levers that jammed. Why it survived the typewriter, whether Dvorak is really faster, and the "typewriter" row myth.
September 23, 2026
Nine Foods That Are Not From Where You Think
Chicken tikka masala, fortune cookies, French fries, Swiss fondue and more — dishes whose nationality is a marketing decision, an accident, or simply wrong.
September 23, 2026
What Flags Are Actually Telling You
Crescents, crosses, stars, pan-African and pan-Arab colours. How to read a national flag you have never seen before, and the rules most of them follow.
September 23, 2026
Why Honey Never Goes Off
Edible honey has been found in 3,000-year-old Egyptian tombs. Three properties keep it safe almost indefinitely, and one of them explains why it must never be given to a baby.