quick facts
📚 Seahorses Are the Most Unusual Fish in the Sea
At first glance, they don’t even look like fish. With their curled tails, horse-like faces, and upright swimming style, seahorses seem more like magical creatures than ocean animals.
🌈 What 80+ Years of Harvard Research Shows About Living a Better Life
The Harvard Study of Adult Development—launched in 1938 with Harvard undergrads and later expanded to include working-class Boston teenagers and even the participants’ children—has followed over 1,300 people through their entire lifespans.
📚 There’s a Species of Jellyfish That Can Live Forever (Kind of)
Found in oceans around the world, this tiny, translucent jellyfish — barely the size of a pinky nail — has a biological trick so wild, scientists are still trying to understand it
📚 Wombat Poop Is Cube-Shaped 🟫
In the wilds of Australia, wombats literally poop cubes — neat, stackable, six-sided little bricks. And this strange fact actually has a surprisingly deep scientific story behind it.
📚 Octopuses Have Three Hearts… and Two of Them Stop When They Swim
The octopus, that squishy master of camouflage and underwater escape, has three hearts. And get this: two of them actually stop beating when it swims.
📚 Bananas Are Berries… But Strawberries Aren’t!?
When we think of berries, we imagine strawberries, raspberries, and blueberries. But botanically speaking, most of our favorite “berries” are just pretending. And one of the biggest surprises?