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Fact-based Weird Facts
The small cumulus drifting over your garden is carrying roughly five hundred tonnes of water, and it stays up there for a reason that has nothing to do with being light.
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 Cosmic Questions
With your back turned you can usually tell a hot pour from a cold one, and the tidy explanation everybody repeats may have the whole thing the wrong way round.
Fact-based Cosmic Questions
Nine in ten of us get a tune stuck on repeat at least once a week, and researchers have worked out which songs do it, when they strike, and why a stick of gum can help.
Fact-based Cosmic Questions
Almost everyone gets hiccups, yet nobody is sure why the reflex exists, and the best clues come from unborn babies and tadpoles.
Fact-based Cosmic Questions
You learned to walk, talk and recognise your family in your first years of life, and yet you cannot recall a single moment of it, which is a very strange thing for a brain to do.
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.
Fact-based Cosmic Questions
That loud growl in a silent room is not really your stomach complaining about lunch, but your gut running a cleaning cycle through pipes that happen to be empty and echoey.
Fact-based Cosmic Questions
It looks like your skin has simply soaked up too much water, but the wrinkles are made on purpose by your nervous system, and they may be there to help you hold on.
Fact-based Cosmic Questions
A cold breeze, a scary film and a favourite song can all raise the same tiny bumps on your arms, which is a lot of effort for hair we barely have.