A baby can't taste salt untill it is 4 months old.

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According to NASA, the perfect nap is 26 minutes long.

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Children as young as 8 in the US are being prescribed off-label GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, sparking debate about the potential long-term health effects

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An elephant's skin can be up to one inch (2.54 centimeters) thick but is so sensitive that it can sense a fly landing on it.

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Hens go through "henopause," the point at which they stop laying eggs.


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Anguilla, a 15,000-person island, owns the .ai domain. Its annual revenue from it went from $2.9M (2018) to $86M (2025).

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Black cats are considered to bring good luck in japan.

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Scientist wins Nobel Prize, then has the sweetest job: telling his children.

Karl Alexander Deisseroth is an American scientist and physician. He is the D.H. Chen Foundation Professor of Bioengineering and a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University. He was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2026 for his work in optogenetics.

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Did you know that the white and red stripes on a windsock are not for decoration?

They actually indicate precise wind speeds.

Here's how.

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An ant will survive a fall from any height because it's terminal velocity can never be high enough to kill it.

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You can get poisoned by eating too much cheese. It is called "Tyrotoxism."

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Short lecture by Kurt Vonnegut on the 'simple shapes of stories.'

Or storytelling + data visualization + data visualization about storytelling = mind blown.

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One minute of passionate kissing can burn between 5 and 26 calories.

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The tiny pocket in jeans was designed for pocket watches.

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In China it is not allowed to give each other watches.

It is considered a harbinger of death.

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In theory, every rainbow is a circle, but from the ground, usually only its upper half can be seen. Things change when you're flying or observing from an elevated vantage point

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This single $300 MILLION machine fires lasers at tin droplets 50,000 times per second creating plasma hotter than the sun and without it your phone and modern AI wouldn’t exist.

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Since water and oil don't mix, when you dump water on a grease fire, it sinks right through to the bottom of the pan and evaporates instantly, spreading flaming oil everywhere

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A stunning chemiluminescent glow created by luminol

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Phronima is a parasitoid deep sea amphipod.

Instead of constantly feeding on a live host, females attack salps, eat the animal and hollow out its gelatinous shell laying their eggs inside then propel the barrel as the larvae developPhronima is a parasitoid deep sea amphipod.

Instead of constantly feeding on a live host, females attack salps, eat the animal and hollow out its gelatinous shell laying their eggs inside then propel the barrel as the larvae develop

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