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Octopuses possess roughly 500 million neurons distributed across their body, with two-thirds located in their arms rather than their central brain, meaning each arm can taste, problem-solve, and react to stimuli independently of whatever the octopus is otherwise paying attention to.

Saving Tips June 10, 2026

A common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) can solve a maze with one arm while another arm, on the far side of…

The Greenland shark grows about one centimetre a year, does not reach sexual maturity until around age 150, and a specimen carbon-dated by Danish researchers in 2016 was estimated to be at least 272 years old, meaning it was already swimming the North Atlantic when Mozart was composing symphonies.

Saving Tips June 9, 2026

When marine biologist Julius Nielsen pulled the lens from the eye of a five-metre Greenland shark in his Copenhagen lab,…

A Japanese man named Jiroemon Kimura, who lived to 116, was born in 1897 when Queen Victoria still ruled and died in 2013, meaning a single human life personally overlapped with the invention of the airplane, the atomic bomb, the internet, and Instagram

Saving Tips May 31, 2026

Jiroemon Kimura was born on April 19, 1897, in a small village near Kyotango on the Sea of Japan coast,…

The Voyager 1 spacecraft launched in 1977 is now over 15 billion miles from Earth, and a radio signal from NASA takes more than 22 hours to reach it, meaning every command is really an instruction for where the probe will be by tomorrow

Saving Tips May 31, 2026

Voyager 1 is currently drifting through interstellar space at roughly 38,000 miles per hour, more than 15 billion miles from…

The computer that landed Apollo 11 stored its code in “rope memory” that was physically woven by hand by a workforce of women in a Massachusetts factory, a wire through a magnetic ring meaning one and around it meaning zero, so the program that carried humans to the Moon was literally knitted into being.

Saving Tips May 30, 2026

The lede above is true, and it is one of the stranger facts about the Apollo programme. The software that…