★The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.★The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.★Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.★There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.★A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.★The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.★The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.★Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.★The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.★Dolphins have names for each other.★Goldfish can recognize human faces.★Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.★The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.★Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.★Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.★More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.★There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.★Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.★Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.★An octopus has nine brains.

Santa season

Trackers, snowflakes and countdowns

Cut a paper snowflake with no scissors and no mess, follow the sleigh around the planet on the big night, or open one door a day until the twenty-fifth. Santa trackers, advent calendars, countdown clocks and yule logs, all free and all about Christmas itself, which is why every page here would look very strange in July. Nobody minds if you start early.