Space bread
Fact: #3810
Astronauts can’t eat regular bread in space because crumbs float off in zero-gravity and can clog filters or short-circuit equipment… Read More
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Microbe With a Work Ethic
Fact: #3809
Sourdough is one of the oldest known forms of leavened bread, with archaeological evidence tracing it back to ancient Egypt… Read More
The ABC’s of LSM
Fact: #3808
Living Standards Measure (LSM), introduced in South Africa in 1988, was originally an 8-segment framework designed to differentiate lifestyle standards… Read More
Slice of truth
Fact: #3807
77% of people aged 18–24 reach for their phone when nothing occupies their attention, compared with only 10% of those… Read More
Pi-oneering Memory
Fact: #3806
On 21 March 2015, Rajveer Meena at VIT University (India) set the world record for reciting 70,000 decimal places of… Read More
Netflix Knows You
Fact: #3803
The streaming platform Netflix’s 125 million global viewers are divided into 2,000 ‘taste clusters’ that group people based on their… Read More