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 
Tokyo's Replaceable Flats That Never Got Replaced
A 1972 Tokyo tower of 140 prefabricated 'capsules' was supposed to be swapped out like appliances - but the future forgot to turn up.Read More 
He Cut Off His Own Arm To Get Out Of A Canyon
Trapped under a boulder for 127 hours in Bluejohn Canyon, he used a multitool to amputate his arm and hiked to safety - and yes, I still think about the elbow.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 
When Your Partner Is Secretly An Impostor (Your Brain's Fault)
Some brains recognise faces but refuse to believe they're real people, insisting loved ones are cunning fakes - and science has a ghastly explanation.Read More 
The Man Who Married Kittens (Victorian Taxidermy Chaos)
A Victorian taxidermist staged full-blown kitten weddings and schools out of stuffed animals and kept them in a tiny museum that people queued for like it was the weirdest cinema.Read More 
That Hoatzin? Its Chicks Have Claws and a Stomach Like a Cow
Out in the Amazon there's a bird whose babies are born with little wing claws and whose adults ferment leaves like a walking cow - nature's own divas.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 
She Froze To 13.7 C And Walked Out
She plunged under ice in 1999, her heart stopped, her core temperature fell to 13.7 C and doctors dragged her back from the absolute brink; it reads like science fiction but it is proper, stubborn medicine.Read More 
It Rains Glass on That One Exoplanet and Everyone's Very Calm About It
There is an exoplanet so rudely equipped with sideways glass rain and hurricane winds that your brolly would file a formal complaint.Read More 