An arc of light that occurs in foggy weather is called a FOGBOW. [📷: John usmc. CC-BY-2.0]

There are no passengers on spaceship Earth, we are all crew. MARSHALL MCLUHAN

Early names for the Tasmanian devil included ‘bear devil’, 'Beelzebub's pup’, and ‘Satanic meat lover’. [📷: Wayne McLean. CC-BY-SA-4.0]

The first translation of Leo Tolstoy’s novel ‘War and Peace’ into Japanese was published in 1886 under the title ‘Weeping Flowers and Bitter Willow Trees — Traces of Bloody Battles in Northern Europe’.

The Beatles’ song ‘I Am the Walrus’ is based on Lewis Carroll’s poem ‘The Walrus and the Carpenter’. Later, John Lennon ‘realised that the walrus was the bad guy in the story’ and he should have sung ‘I am the Carpenter’.

The Mariko Aoki phenomenon is the sudden urge to defecate when visiting a bookshop.

Word of the Day: TESTERICAL (neologism) - driven by testes and/or testosterone; a proposed alternative to the word ‘hysterical’.

The world’s smallest wasp is smaller than an amoeba.

Marie Antoinette had ten sisters, all called Maria.

In 2019, children under five lost 765 million IQ points globally due to lead exposure.

It’s easier to change a body than to change a mind. ROBERTA COWELL

In 2021, Dutch scientists managed to grow tear glands outside of the human body that could actually produce tears.

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Felix Mendelssohn described fellow composer Hector Berlioz’s works as if ‘all the instruments have a hangover and vomit music.’

Buying Spanish tomatoes out of season is less environmentally damaging than buying British tomatoes grown in heated greenhouses.

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In Ancient Greek mythology, the constellation of Orion is a warrior chasing the seven sisters of Pleiades. According to the aboriginal people of New South Wales, the same constellation is a warrior called Baiame who is chasing the seven sisters of the Mulayndynang.

A pat on the back or a squeeze of the hand by a team mate, improves the chances of someone scoring a free shot in basketball.

Two nights of bad sleep can make you feel four years older than you actually are.