A list of curious facts
One: There is a Croatian taxidermy museum called Froggyland that has 507 dead frogs that are more than 100 years old. And they are displayed doing odd things like doing a ballroom dance, smoking, drinking and diving into a miniature pool. It’s all very oddly compelling. NPR has the story. We recommend you check out the museum photo gallery—despite the ‘dead frogs’ bit.
Two: Synthetic Messenger is a performance art project where 100 bots methodically scroll through news articles about climate change and click every ad on each page. The aim: to expose how tech algorithms distort the news we see and read. Gizmodo has more about this thought-provoking project.
Three: Australia has been inundated with floods recently, and its spiders decided to move to high ground by throwing out spider webs over a kilometre long. Watch the mind-blowing South China Morning Post report below:
Four: ‘Mask Pan’ is an edible face mask made out of a kind of Japanese bread called melon pan. And its manufacturer insists that it offers “a feeling of happiness” and works as well as any commercial face mask—except: “If you eat the inside of the mask, the performance will decrease." So there’s that.
