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Fact-based Weird Facts
Under ordinary light a platypus is plain brown, but under an ultraviolet lamp its fur glows blue-green, and scientists still disagree about whether the glow does anything at all.
Fact-based Odd Places
Grand Prismatic Spring is deep blue in the middle and ringed with green, yellow and orange, and the two halves of that rainbow are made in completely different ways.
Fact-based Weird Facts
Given a clear path to food and a side area scattered with small wooden balls, bumblebees in a London lab kept wandering off to roll the balls, with no reward in sight.
Fact-based Weird Facts
A chameleon is not a living copy machine for whatever it sits on: its most dazzling colour changes are messages to other chameleons, made with tiny crystals in its skin.
Fact-based Weird Facts
A bee that finds good flowers flies home and dances a figure of eight in the dark hive, and the dance tells her sisters which way to fly and how far to go.
Fiction Animal News — Fiction
Every scrap of bread, three grapes and one entire boiled potato went into the stream before being eaten, and the raccoon responsible would like it recorded as inspection rather than laundry.
Fact-based Odd Places
On a small island off Western Australia sits a lake so pink it looks painted, and a glass of its water stays pink too, thanks to some very salty tiny residents.
Fact-based Weird Facts
A hippo climbing out of a river shines orange-red in the sun, and that glossy coat is a sunscreen it makes in its own skin, one that keeps germs away as well.
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.