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Fact You are taller in the morning By around a centimetre, and it is gone by evening. 1 min read Fact The observable universe is far wider than its age in light years 13.8 billion years old. About 93 billion light years across. Nothing broke the speed limit. 1 min read Fact Eight per cent of your genome came from viruses Ancient infections wrote themselves into the human record and never left. 1 min read Fact The strongest muscle in your body is in your jaw By force relative to size, the masseter wins. 1 min read Fact Old TV static was partly the birth of the universe A small percentage of that snow was radiation from 380,000 years after the Big Bang. 1 min read Fact Some people have no mind’s eye at all Asked to picture an apple, a small share of humanity sees nothing whatsoever. 1 min read Fact Learning to read physically rewires the adult brain Adults taught to read late show changes visible on a scan. 1 min read Fact You have a hole in your vision and your brain paints over it There is a patch of your visual field with no receptors at all. You have never seen it. 1 min read Fact The invisible gorilla walked through and nobody saw it Counting basketball passes made half the audience blind to a person in a gorilla suit. 1 min read Fact A placebo can work when you know it is a placebo Patients were told outright the pills were inert. They improved anyway. 1 min read