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Fact-based Odd Places
On a shore in Northern Ireland, thousands of neat six-sided stone columns step down into the sea, and the real builder was a lake of lava that cooled very, very slowly.
Fact-based Nature Did It First
A shark's skin is covered in tiny tooth-shaped scales, and copying their fine ridges gave engineers a film of grooves, no deeper than a scratch, that helps hulls and wings meet less drag.
Fact-based Weird Facts
The internet loves sleeping otters holding paws, but in the wild it is a rare sight, and the anchor most otters trust for a nap is a strand of kelp.
Fiction Tiny Stories
For years a river ferryman waved at every passing boat, including one kayak that never waved back, until one grey Thursday in March.
Fact-based Odd Places
On a quiet stretch of the Otago coast, dozens of almost perfectly round boulders sit on the sand like marbles left by giants, and each one took millions of years to grow.
Fiction Animal News — Fiction
Spokesbirds for a clifftop colony insist the bright orange beaks that appear every spring are entirely natural and have nothing whatsoever to do with fashion.
Fact-based Cosmic Questions
The rivers pouring into the sea taste fresh, yet the ocean is salty, and the answer is a very slow partnership between rain, rock and sunshine.
Fiction Tiny Stories
Every night at ten, the lighthouse on Gull Rock flashes twice, and every night, all along the harbour front, kitchen lights blink twice in reply, though the keeper left forty years ago.
Fiction Animal News — Fiction
After a week of round-the-clock work, a small pufferfish has completed a perfectly symmetrical sand circle the width of a double bed and has refused all requests for an interview.
Fact-based Nature Did It First
The long flippers of a humpback whale are lined with knobbly bumps along the front edge, and when scientists tested them in a wind tunnel, the bumps turned out to be worth copying on fans and turbines.