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Snow Falls in the Sahara
At the desert's edge in Algeria, snow has settled on the dunes more than once, and NASA satellites have photographed it from space.
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Do Fish Know When It Is Raining?
Rain fills the water with sound, but much of that sound is pitched far higher than many fish can hear, so the answer is less obvious than it seems.
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The Umbrella Nobody Meant to Keep
There is an umbrella in a cafe lost-and-found that has been claimed eleven times, returned twelve, and has quietly decided that being forgotten is the whole point.
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That Fresh Rain Smell? You're Actually Sniffing Bacteria
The earthy smell of rain has a name, petrichor, and a key ingredient is geosmin, made by soil bacteria, which the human nose can detect at about one hundred parts per trillion.
Fact-based Cosmic Questions
Do Clouds Have Favourite Countries?
Not quite, but some places really are far cloudier than others, and the reasons are wind, water and mountains.