Tiny Wonders | Echoes of Wonder

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Animals & Nature

Trees can recognise their own offspring and send them extra nutrients through underground fungal networks.
Crows can remember individual human faces and will teach other crows who to trust or avoid.
Sloths can take up to a month to digest one meal.
Ants don’t sleep like we do; they take hundreds of tiny power naps each day.

Human Body

Your brain uses about 20% of your body’s energy, despite being only ~2% of your weight.
You have a unique tongue print, just like fingerprints.
The gut contains more nerve cells than a cat’s entire brain.
Every seven years or so, nearly every atom in your body has been replaced.

Physics & Space

If you fell into a black hole, from your perspective you’d cross the event horizon normally, but to an outside observer, you’d appear frozen in time.
Saturn could float in water (theoretically) because its average density is so low.
Light from the Sun takes about 8 minutes to reach Earth, meaning you always see the Sun in the past.

Bananas are radioactive.

Philosophy

The word “sonder” describes the realisation that every stranger has a life as complex as your own.
Ancient Stoics practiced negative visualisation. They imagined loss, not to be sad, but to feel grateful.
Many philosophers believe the self is not a thing, but a process.
Some Indigenous languages don’t structure time as past → present → future, but as known → unknown.