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Fact Basque is related to no other language on Earth Surrounded by Romance languages, descended from none of them. 1 min read Fact Superfluid helium climbs out of its own container Cooled far enough, it flows with no viscosity and creeps up the walls. 1 min read Fact Shakespeare did not coin as many words as you were told He is the first recorded use of many words. That is a different claim. 1 min read Fact Light has been slowed to the speed of a bicycle And then stopped entirely, and then released again. 1 min read Fact QWERTY was not designed to slow typists down The jamming story is repeated everywhere and rests on very little. 1 min read Fact Bananas are measurably radioactive So are you, and so is anyone you hug. 1 min read Fact One Amazonian language appears to have no exact numbers Roughly one, roughly two, many. And speakers struggle with exact matching tasks above three. 1 min read Fact A second is defined by a caesium atom, not the Earth Exactly 9,192,631,770 oscillations. The planet turned out to be an unreliable clock. 1 min read Fact OK began as a joke about bad spelling From a fad for comic abbreviations in 1830s Boston newspapers. 1 min read Fact Most of Earth’s gold probably came from colliding neutron stars Ordinary stars cannot make it. Something more violent had to. 1 min read