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Sharks are older than trees: they’ve been cruising Earth’s oceans for about 400 million years, while true trees appeared tens of millions of years later. They were ancient before forests existed.
Titan is the only world beyond Earth known to have stable bodies of liquid on its surface. Its lakes and seas are methane and ethane, not water, chilled to about -179°C. Beach day, but make it alien.
Australia once sent soldiers with machine guns after emus; and the birds mostly won. In 1932, the army tried to cull crop raiding emus in Western Australia, but the fast, scattered birds turned it into a…
Scotland’s national animal is the unicorn. It’s been in Scottish heraldry for centuries, often shown chained because medieval lore said it was dangerously untamable, basically a government-approved chaos pony.
Pringles can designer Fredric Baur was buried with some of his ashes inside a Pringles can. His family honored his request in 2008, choosing the original-flavor can on the way to the funeral home. Once you…
Wombats are the only known animals that poop cubes, thanks to stretchy, uneven intestines that mold the poop as it dries. Basically, nature invented a furry brick factory.