Victorians Bought Coffins With Alarm Bells
In top hat days they built coffins with air tubes, glass windows and panic bells for anyone regretting the whole dying business.Read More 
Lake Natron Turns Birds Into Stone And Nature Cheers
There is a lake in Tanzania that bakes and salts unlucky animals into eerie statues while flamingos act like it's a spa day.Read More 
Some Git Named An Asteroid After His Cat Mr Spock
Proper daft: there really is an asteroid called 2309 Mr Spock, and no, it wasn't christened for Captain Kirk - it was named after a moggy.Read More 
That Tiny Fold In Your Eye Is A Third Eyelid Imposter
Nestled in the inner corner of your eye is the plica semilunaris, a vestigial third eyelid - evolution's polite, bureaucratic footnote.Read More 
The Dried Hand Thieves Loved
Believe it or not, at one time burglars carried a pickled hanged man's hand like it was a get-out-of-jail-free card.Read More 
I Tried The Ocean's Foie Gras And It Was Weirdly Romantic
Monkfish liver is a real delicacy called ankimo and it tastes like buttery ocean grief in the best way possible.Read More 
In China You Need Permission To Be Reborn
They actually make Tibetan monasteries get state sign-off before announcing a 'return' - paperwork for your next life.Read More 
Some People Are Missing A Wrist Tendon And Live To Tell The Tale
Roughly one in eight people lack the palmaris longus tendon - a tiny, vestigial wrist muscle surgeons nick like a spare tyre.Read More 
Some Languages Make You Say How You Know Stuff
Grammar that is basically an honesty detector: in some tongues you literally must tell everyone if you saw it, heard it, guessed it, or were told it.Read More 
They Told Me It Was A Sugar Pill And I Felt Better
Honesty, it seems, does not destroy the placebo; it dresses it up in sensible trousers and sends it to do the job.Read More 