Why is AMBULANCE written backwards? So you can read it in your mirror
AMBULANCE is written backwards on the front of the vehicle so that a driver ahead can read it in the
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Why do chefs wear tall hats? Carême, a piece of cardboard and the 100 ways to cook an egg
The tall white chef’s hat is called a toque, and its height has little to do with keeping hair out
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Sarcoline: the flesh-coloured peach that shares a root with sarcasm and sarcophagus
Sarcoline is a pale peach, hex code #FFDDAA, RGB 255, 221, 170. The name sounds like a medicine or a
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Why do bagels have holes? A Kraków answer that goes back to 1394
On 2 March 1394 a clerk keeping the Polish royal accounts wrote down a small purchase: “pro circulis obarzankij”, for
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Not what they seem: 10 movie cities that are really somewhere else
In The Bourne Identity Jason Bourne wakes up on a park bench in Zurich, walks a snowy Zurich street, stares
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Scrub colour meaning in hospitals, and why surgeons wear green (it was almost black)
The story usually goes like this: in 1914 a San Francisco surgeon dressed his operating team in green, and hospitals
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Why are bananas curved? Because they grow upside down and turn toward the sky
A banana is curved because it grows the wrong way up. On the plant, the bunch hangs upside down from
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Skobeloff: the dark teal named after a Russian general who wore white
Skobeloff is a dark blue-green, hex code #007474, RGB 0, 116, 116. It sits between teal and deep cyan, and
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Why are barns painted red? Rust, skimmed milk and a Swedish copper mine
Drive through farm country in the American Midwest, Ontario or New England and the barns are red often enough that
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The bootstrap paradox: the story that wrote itself
Imagine you build a time machine, travel back to meet a young William Shakespeare, and hand him a printed volume
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