Your Nose Has A Proper Boner
Blimey - one nostril actually swells up on purpose, like it's doing the night shift for your breathing.Read More 
They Properly Eat Chalk And Call It Medicine
People in places like West Africa and parts of the American South chew white clay and calabash chalk for minerals and stomach magic - sometimes it helps, sometimes it poisons you, and it is dead odd to watch.Read More 
Leafcutter Ants Run A Tiny Pharmacy
They cut leaves, grow a fungal crop for dinner, and carry antibiotic-making bacteria like a workman keeps a can of WD-40 - proper organised, innit.Read More 
That Cathedral With Giant Stone Scissors
Wells Cathedral shoved a pair of massive stone 'scissors' into its nave in the 14th century to stop the tower falling through the roof and it still looks gobsmacking.Read More 
They Wove Your Dead Nan Into A Necklace
Victorians braided grief into brooches, rings and full-on wreaths and thought it perfectly normal to wear your aunt's head on your lapel.Read More 
That star's basically a diamond, mate
There is a white dwarf out there with a crystallised carbon core - like space made a massive, silent diamond and forgot to show it off.Read More 
The Library That's Literally On The Border, Innit
There's a proper bookshop-opera hybrid sat half in Vermont and half in Quebec and the border cuts right through the reading room like a cheeky bit of string.Read More 
Pineapples You Could Rent, Mate
In the 1700s people hired pineapples like posh ornaments to show off at dinner and barely ate the things - proper daft flexing, innit.Read More 
Tycho's Drunk Moose, Proper Classic
This bloke built an observatory, got a metal nose from a duel and kept a pet moose that downed beer and fell down the stairs - you couldn't make it up.Read More 
Iceland Has Proper Name Cops
You can't just call your baby 'Ziggy Stardust' in Iceland unless the grammar squad signs off, and they will judge you.Read More 