The Library of Congress once sent book requests through pneumatic tubes. You asked for a book, and a slip of paper took a tiny subway ride through the building.
In the Smokies, synchronous fireflies flash 5–8 times, then pause in the dark for about eight seconds. Nature invented dramatic timing and gave it to beetles.
A Pikachu plush spent 67 days aboard the International Space Station from April to June 2026
It completed roughly 1,040 orbits of Earth during ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot’s mission before returning home