They Almost Floated an Aircraft Carrier Made of Ice and I Love It
In WWII Britain briefly tried to build unsinkable floating airbases from 'pykrete'-a frozen mix of ice and wood pulp-because history enjoys a laugh.Read More 
My Gut Secretly Became a Brewery
Picture getting blackout drunk without a drink because your own gut microbes threw a fermentation party - and yes, that is an actual medical thing.Read More 
Point Nemo: Middle Of Nowhere Where Astronauts Are Your Neighbours
There is a spot in the South Pacific so lonely the closest people are the ones circling overhead, and even ships treat it like a skip for dead satellites.Read More 
Never Toast With Water Unless You Want To Be Morbidly Polite
In Japan, clinking a glass of water at a party is the social equivalent of applauding a eulogy.Read More 
Colombia's Giant Roasted Ants Are Deliciously Unruly
In Santander they toast hormigas culonas - nutty, bacony courting snacks that make polite dinner talk evaporate.Read More 
Cadaver Synod: They Put a Pope on Trial
In 897 Rome literally dug up Pope Formosus, sat his corpse on a throne, and humiliated him in the most bureaucratic of ways.Read More 
Djenne's Mosque Gets Smothered In Mud
Once a year the whole town dresses down, mixes a ridiculous amount of adobe, and plaster-bakes the world's largest mudbrick building.Read More 
That Time Space Whispered 'Wow' and Ghosted Us
August 15, 1977: a radio dish heard something so rude it earned a single-word reaction and never explained itself.Read More 
133 Days Adrift, Ate Seagulls, Still Sound
Proper mad: a fella floated for 133 days, drank rain, ate birds and turned a bit of canvas into a wardrobe and kept his humour.Read More 
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 