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Fact-based Nature Did It First
In the middle of Harare stands a big office and shopping centre with no ordinary air conditioning, designed after a long look at the tall earth towers that termites build.
Fact-based Odd Places
Hot springs at Pamukkale have spent thousands of years laying a thin white skin of stone down a 200-metre cliff, building a staircase of shallow pools the colour of the sky.
Fact-based Nature Did It First
A lotus leaf is far too bumpy for dirt to hold on to, and once a microscope explained why, the same trick went onto building walls, fabrics and glass.
Fact-based Weird Facts
A global count using satellites and four hundred thousand forest plots put Earth's tree total near three trillion, several times the stars our whole galaxy is thought to hold.
Fact-based Nature Did It First
A walk in the woods in 1941 ended with burrs clinging to a dog's fur, and one close look under a microscope gave the world the hook-and-loop fastener.
Fact-based Weird Facts
Certain bamboos have been measured growing about 91 centimetres in 24 hours, roughly a millimetre every ninety seconds, which is fast enough that you could almost watch it happen.
Fiction Animal News — Fiction
Tens of thousands of starlings swirled over the reed beds at dusk in shapes so perfect that onlookers demanded to know who was in charge, and the starlings insist nobody is.
Fiction Animal News — Fiction
A herd of ibex was seen standing on a near-vertical stone dam high in the mountains on Thursday, licking the wall, and a spokesgoat has asked everyone to calm down.
Fiction Tiny Stories
Nobody on Tanner Road could agree on anything, until someone found the date the oak outside number twelve was planted and pinned a birthday card to its trunk.
Fact-based Odd Places
On the island of Bohol, well over a thousand round grassy hills rise from the fields like sweets on a tray, green for much of the year and brown as cocoa when the dry season comes.