Trees communicate through underground fungal networks, sharing nutrients and signals – a system scientists have nicknamed the Wood Wide Web.
Less than 10% of Americans don’t wear seatbelts, yet they account for over half of car-related fatalities.
Oyster mushrooms are carnivorous – they release a nerve toxin to paralyse worms, then grow into their bodies and digest
‘Shrapnel’ is named after British officer Henry Shrapnel, who invented an exploding shell in the early 1800s.
According to studies, the average native English speaker knows about 42,000 words by age 20, with top speakers reaching around
Gravity behaves differently around the world — a baseball hit the same way in Miami flies about a foot farther
Studies suggest around 30% of people are natural ‘night owls’, biologically tuned to perform best later in the day and
Alfred Nobel’s 1895 bequest of $2.5 million has grown nearly 200× to over $540m, funding $12m a year in Nobel
Concentrated orange juice was invented during WWII at the request of the U.S. Army – troops hated Vitamin C tablets,
In the U.S., food allergies in children rose by 18% between 1997 and 2007 — a trend that continues to
