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Crows Remember Your Face—and They Can Warn Other Crows About You
American crows can remember threatening human faces for years and spread that information to other crows. The research is somehow even stranger than the headline.
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Bananas Are Berries, but Strawberries Aren’t. Botany Is Weird.
Bananas are botanical berries, while strawberries are aggregate accessory fruits. The difference comes down to how each fruit develops from a flower.
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A Day on Venus Is Longer Than a Year on Venus
Venus takes about 243 Earth days to rotate once but only about 225 days to orbit the Sun. And that’s only the beginning of its strange…
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Octopuses Have Three Hearts—and One Stops Beating When They Swim
Octopuses have three hearts, blue blood, and one heart that temporarily stops during jet-propelled swimming. Here’s why.
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Wombats Poop Cubes, and Scientists Actually Figured Out How
Wombats really do produce cube-shaped poop. Scientists studied their intestines and found how the strange little bricks are actually formed.
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Trump vs. the Illuminati Is a Real Movie. Yes, Really.
Trump vs. the Illuminati is a real 2020 animated sci-fi movie about a fictional Trump clone fighting the Illuminati. The premise is somehow only the beginning.
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Who Is Yasin Cengiz? The TikTok Dance Behind “Dom Dom Yes Yes”
Yasin Cengiz became a TikTok phenomenon with his “Dom Dom Yes Yes” dance. Here’s the documented timeline—and what the internet got wrong.
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The Little Red Truck Hauling a Christmas Tree Is Everywhere. Here’s Why.
Why is a little red truck hauling a Christmas tree on everything? The image predates TikTok by decades, and its real history is messier than one…
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Barilla Turned Spotify Into a Pasta Timer. This Is Peak Civilization.
Barilla’s Spotify playlists are timed to pasta cooking windows. Start the playlist with the pasta; when the music ends, check dinner.
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Sweden and Switzerland Are Different Countries. We Have Apparently Reached This Point.
Sweden is a Nordic EU member with Stockholm and the krona; Switzerland is a multilingual Central European country outside the EU using the Swiss franc.