Sixteen pages, fifty facts, five to a page. Every one checked against the paper it came from, and the citation is printed in the back. The ones everybody repeats at parties mostly didn't make it in.
Most of them fit in a sentence, which is the point. They're for saying out loud to whoever happens to be standing next to you.
Sharks were already swimming about 409 million years ago; the first trees came up around 385. On current estimates they're older than Saturn's rings too, which may be less than 100 million years old.
Researchers trapped a few birds while wearing a particular mask, then wore it around campus for years. The trapped crows scolded it nearly every time. So did crows that were never caught. Word travelled over a kilometre.
It never touches you. Slamming the claw fires a jet quick enough to rip a bubble open in the water, and when the bubble collapses the inside passes 5,000 kelvin. The sun's surface sits at 5,772.
Every fact was checked against the primary literature before it was written, and where the popular phrasing overstates what was actually found, the narrower version is what's printed. It's almost always the better fact anyway.
Fourteen entries were cut for failing that check. A few you'll recognise:
WunderWild names the real animal in the photo you just took, then files it in your Collection. The first one is almost always something you walk past.
A bird on a wire, a moth on the lampshade, the cat that isn't yours. It works on the photo you'd actually get.
The species, not a category. Plus what it eats, where it lives, and whether to keep your distance.
151 species, your own photos, filed as you find them. The empty slots are the fun part.
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A few facts that didn't fit, what's worth looking for outdoors this month, and the occasional note about what we're building. Not a daily anything.
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