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Click beetles can launch themselves into airborne somersaults without jumping from their legs, using a springlike mechanism inside the body.
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cartwheelFind to reveal
Golden wheel spiders escape wasps by cartwheeling down Namib Desert dunes, turning their bodies sideways into spinning wheels on the sand.
scribbleFind to reveal
Medieval page margins often show knights battling giant snails, leaving serious books with bizarre little scenes whose meaning scholars still debate.
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Cats stretch the instant they wake to prime their muscles and nerves, a yawning reflex scientists call pandiculation.
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On Spain's La Gomera island, people can whistle spoken language across valleys, turning distant conversations into carrying musical sounds.
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Spinning can leave your inner-ear fluid moving after you stop, making your balance system report motion that isn't happening.
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A 52-card deck has more possible orders than Earth has atoms, giving playing cards a startling amount of mathematical variety.
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In a dancing honeybee's waggle, the angle points toward food and the length signals how far away it lies.
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Geckos climb glass using billions of tiny hairs on their toes, gripping by a faint molecular force, not by any sticky glue.
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A flea can jump over a hundred times its own body length, launching at more than a hundred times gravity.
True stories · Palo Alto, California
The horse that flew
In Palo Alto, California, in 1878, a strange question split the racing world: does a galloping horse ever have all four hooves off the ground at once? Eyes alone could not tell. Former governor Leland Stanford hired photographer Eadweard Muybridge to find out. Muybridge lined a track with twelve cameras, each triggered by a trip wire as the horse, Sallie Gardner, raced past. The pictures proved it: for a brief instant, the running horse was fully airborne, legs tucked under its body, not splayed out as many paintings depicted it. The images amazed the public and, stitched into motion, pointed the way toward the movies.
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt Disney
Trivia
What do we call the small, fast eye movements that jump from word to word as you read?
Saccades.
Which animal did Eadweard Muybridge photograph in motion in 1878 to study whether all its feet left the ground?
A galloping horse.
What is the name for the morning workout move where you jump while clapping overhead and spreading your legs?
A jumping jack.
In which ancient civilization did some of the world's first writing appear, pressed into clay tablets?
Sumer (ancient Mesopotamia).
What sticky-toed lizard can climb straight up a pane of smooth glass?
The gecko.
Trivia · 1 / 5
What do we call the small, fast eye movements that jump from word to word as you read?
Saccades.
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The fifth try
In September 2013 Diana Nyad came ashore at Key West, Florida, after a reported Cuba-to-Florida crossing of roughly 110 miles and 53 hours. She was 64, and this was her fifth attempt over 35 years. Earlier attempts had met storms, currents and jellyfish; this time she wore a protective mask and had a large support team. Her arrival became an international story of persistence. Its record status is disputed: in 2023 the World Open Water Swimming Association denied ratification, citing rules and documentation problems. The dramatic beach finish remains part of the story, but it should be distinguished from an officially ratified, unassisted swimming record.
Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
Martha Graham
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Sources: Muybridge photographs a galloping horse (IEEE Spectrum) · Diana Nyad crossing and ratification decision (WOWSA) · Randy Gardner sleep deprivation experiment (Wikipedia) · Fleas and their jumping ability (Oxford University Museum)
Word list, facts & trivia researched and compiled by Sam Letterman — spotted a mistake? Tell us and we’ll fix it.