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Month: August 2026

Fact Pigeons can tell a Monet from a Picasso And then correctly sort paintings they had never seen before. 1 min read Fact Cats cannot taste sweetness The gene for it is broken in every cat, from housecat to tiger. 1 min read Fact Wombats produce cube-shaped droppings Not moulded on the way out. Shaped by uneven stretching inside the intestine. 1 min read Fact A Greenland shark can be older than the United States One studied individual was estimated at close to 400 years. 1 min read Fact Crows remember faces and tell their friends Researchers wore masks. Years later, birds that were never captured still scolded the mask. 1 min read Fact Bees understand the concept of zero A concept that took human mathematics thousands of years to formalise. 1 min read Fact Tardigrades survived direct exposure to open space Vacuum, radiation, no water. Some of them then laid viable eggs. 1 min read Fact One jellyfish can revert to a juvenile state Under stress, it does not die. It starts over. 1 min read Fact Sharks are older than trees And older than Saturn's rings, on most current estimates. 1 min read Fact An octopus has three hearts and nine brains, sort of Two thirds of its neurons are in its arms, and the arms can act without asking. 1 min read