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Fact Betelgeuse may already have exploded If it has, the news is still in transit. 1 min read Fact Wild almonds can kill you Domestication of the almond was a matter of finding the one tree that would not. 1 min read Fact Ants have been farming for tens of millions of years Fungus gardens, crop tending, pest control, and antibiotic-producing partners. 1 min read Fact Glass is not a slow-moving liquid Old cathedral windows are thicker at the bottom because of how they were made. 1 min read Fact Trillions of neutrinos pass through you every second Right now. And essentially none of them notice you are there. 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 Fact Axolotls regrow limbs, organs and parts of their brain Without scarring, and repeatedly. 1 min read Fact Helium was discovered on the Sun before it was found on Earth An unexplained yellow line in an eclipse spectrum, in 1868. 1 min read Fact Remove the empty space from atoms and humanity fits in a sugar cube Matter is overwhelmingly nothing, held apart by force. 1 min read Fact Sharks are older than trees And older than Saturn's rings, on most current estimates. 1 min read