We Properly Fought A 38Minute War, Mate
One afternoon in 1896 Britain and Zanzibar had a fight that took less time than a telly ad break - and someone very nearly forgot to bring a plan.Read More 
The Taos Hum Is Proper Peculiar
Some folk in Taos hear a constant low hum and the rest of the town acts like it's a mystery soap episode.Read More 
That Big Eye In The Sahara Is Just Bored Rock
There is a 40km circular 'eye' in Mauritania that makes people shout aliens, when really it's just rock peeling itself like an old pie.Read More 
They Turn Fish Into Wood, Mate
They smoke a tuna, grow mould on it until it's like a plank, then shave it into flaky soup magic and no one blinks.Read More 
Most Of The Clitoris Lives Inside, Mate
You only see the bonnet; the rest is a lumpy, lovemaking apparatus that sprawls like a secret map under the skin.Read More 
When Your Hand Goes Rogue
Proper daft: one of your hands can start doing stuff on its own, like some tiny squaddie with a vendetta.Read More 
Mercury's Tiny Angry Pits
Mercury's surface has little bright pits called 'hollows' - like the planet's been on the piss and forgotten to finish a DIY job.Read More 
Iapetus: The Moon That Grew A Ridge
Saturn's walnut-shaped moon has a spine down its middle like someone tried to stitch a belt on a doughnut and forgot why.Read More 
They Tried To Smash Cities With Bats, Properly Daft
In WWII the US actually trained bats to carry tiny incendiaries so they'd roost in wooden houses and start fires - and it worked well enough to be terrifying.Read More 
The Dead Bloke, a Rubaiyat and a Code No One Can Crack
Found on a beach in 1948: a dead fella, a torn bit of poetry and a string of letters like someone tried to hide a crossword answer.Read More 