★Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.★A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.★Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.★A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.★Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.★Dolphins have names for each other.★Rats laugh when tickled.★Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.★Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.★There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.★There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.★More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.★Dolphins sleep with one eye open.★It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.★A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.★Butterflies taste with their feet.★A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.★Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.★The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.★Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.

Niche obsessions

Whole sites about one tiny thing

Somewhere out there is a man photographing every electricity pylon in Britain, and another cataloging 53,000 airline meals. Each of these sites covers one absurdly narrow subject with a devotion it never asked for. Pick a subject and fall in.