A list of curious facts
One: We get all mad at Insta, but TikTok is truly the mother lode of atrocious trends. The latest is called ‘fridgescaping’. It involves decorating the inside of your refrigerator like it's any other room in your house. In other words, seriously lame time-pass for seriously jobless people—most of whom sadly happen to be women. Likely the same women who decorate their Stanley cups. We leave you with a description that will be forever seared in your brain:
Judish’s fridgescapes involve thoughtfully arranged produce, such as a bouquet of asparagus in a vase, and charming storage containers, like pink glass pitchers and antique ceramic butter dishes — “anything that will beautify your food,” she said. Recently, she’s started theming her fridgescapes around properties like “Bridgerton” (or “Fridgerton,” as Judish calls it), swapping out condiments and unsightly cartons for fridge-safe decor like picture frames and figurines.
Lots more fridgescaping below (just in case the lead image didn’t rot your brain). (CNN)
Two: Researchers have made an astonishing discovery about a yellow food dye called tartrazine—which is used to colour everything from M&Ms to Gatorade. When applied to a live mouse, it makes the skin transparent:
The effect was pronounced enough for researchers to see blood vessels beneath the animal’s scalp, some of its abdominal organs and a number of the more delicate muscles in its legs—sights hitherto only directly visible through dissection.
The best bit: it appears to be totally safe—offers a superior, non-invasive method to look inside a living creature. We don’t know if it will work with humans—as our skin is much thicker than mice. You can see how it works below. (The Economist)
Three: The globular springtail—aka Dicyrtomina minuta—can do the fastest backflips in the world. The 2 mm creature rotates as much as 368 times per second—and takes one thousandth of a second to backflip off the ground. The slo-mo version below looks seriously cool. (Popular Science)
Four: Dating life in Spain has taken an unexpected and rather manic turn. Singletons from Madrid to Bilbao are mobbing supermarkets between the hours of 7pm and 8 pm—flaunting an upside-down pineapple in their grocery cart. Lo and behold, you crash carts with some other pineapple-toting person… and true love may follow. Or at least a first date. Things are so out of hand that cops had to be called to some stores—whose employees have started hiding their pineapples. A tragic ending even Shakespeare will be hard pressed to beat. Check out what a girls night out looks like at the Mercado lol! (Washington Post, login required, BBC News)
Bonus fact: This is a true headline: ‘Gucci’s $190 ripped tights are somehow sold out — here are cheaper solutions’. This is what the tights look like. Enuf said. (The Independent)
