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Noctilucent cloud is not quite what it seems.
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Horseshoe crab deserves a closer look.
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The facts behind Eidetic memory.
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Ebbinghaus illusion still raises strange questions.
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The real story behind Working memory.
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Why You Can’t Tickle Yourself (and What It Proves About Your Brain)
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Science
Space, biology, physics, and discoveries that redraw the map.
The simple version of Mycorrhiza.
A mycorrhiza is a symbiotic association between a fungus and a plant, in which fungal hyphae and plant roots become interconnected and form an…
Read moreThe simple version of Echolocation.
Echolocation is the use of sound as a form of navigation.
Read moreWhat people get wrong about Electric eel.
The electric eels are a genus, Electrophorus, of neotropical freshwater fish from South America in the family Gymnotidae, of which they are the only…
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History
Strange turning points, forgotten names, and moments that still echo.
The surprising truth about Battle of Mactan.
The Battle of Mactan was fought on a beach in Mactan Island between Spanish forces led by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan along with…
Read moreWhat 10,000 Hours of Practice Actually Does to Your Brain
The “10,000-hour rule” has been repeated so often it feels like neuroscience. It isn’t, quite. The figure comes from a 1993 study by psychologist…
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Factology Daily Launches: One Interesting Fact, Dug In Deep The Factology Daily today announced its launch at thefactologydaily.com, a publication…
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Psychology
Attention, memory, habit, emotion, and the mind at work.
Ames room still raises strange questions.
An Ames room is a distorted room that creates an optical illusion.
Read moreThe surprising truth about Chunking.
In cognitive psychology, chunking is a process by which small individual pieces of a set of information are bound together to create a meaningful…
Read moreThe surprising truth about Checker shadow illusion.
The checker shadow illusion is an optical illusion published by Edward H.
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Odd records, rare phenomena, and true stories that sound impossible.
Why The Hum still gets people talking.
The Hum is a persistent and invasive low-frequency humming, rumbling, or droning noise audible to many, but not all, people in an area.
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The facts behind Hessdalen lights.
The Hessdalen lights are unidentified lights which have been observed in a 12-kilometre-long (7.5 mi) stretch of the Hessdalen valley in rural central Norway…
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Marfa lights deserves a closer look.
The Marfa lights are an optical phenomenon regularly observed near Marfa, Texas, in the United States.
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Cambrian explosion is not quite what it seems.
The Cambrian explosion is an interval of time beginning approximately 538.8 million years ago in the Cambrian period of the early Paleozoic, when a…
Read moreThe facts behind Burgess Shale.
The Burgess Shale is a fossil-bearing deposit exposed in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, Canada.
Read moreThe surprising truth about Superconductivity.
Superconductivity is a set of physical properties observed in superconductors: materials where electrical resistance is exactly zero and magnetic fields are expelled from the…
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The real story behind Mansa Musa.
Mansa Musa was the ninth Mansa of the Mali Empire, which reached its territorial peak during his reign.
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The surprising truth about Extremophile.
An extremophile is an organism that is able to live or even thrive in extreme environments, such as extreme temperature, pressure, radiation, salinity, or…
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Rogue wave still raises strange questions.
Rogue waves are large and unpredictable surface waves that can be extremely dangerous to ships and isolated structures such as lighthouses.
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