Antarctica is the only continent without any reptiles or snakes

Yes, you read that right; it doesn’t have any type of reptiles. Why? Well — reptiles and snakes are cold-blooded, they can’t produce their own heat and therefore rely on heat from the environment. Because there’s none of that in Antarctica, they would never last, meaning, they’d get turned into popsicles in the frosty Arctic.

The shape of Pringles chips

The saddle shape of a Pringles chip is known in math as a hyperbolic paraboloid. Pringles were made in this shape because it allows the chips to be stacked easily and kept in place during packaging.

Artificial banana flavouring is based on an extinct banana

You may notice that your banana-flavoured food products don’t taste quite like the real thing. This is because commercially-used banana flavouring is based on a type of banana that got wiped out by a plague in the 1950s.

Published in Dawn, Young World, December 11th, 2021