Fact-based Word Journeys
Kangaroo Is a Real Word, Not a Polite Shrug
A popular story says kangaroo means I don't understand, but the word was a real name for a big grey kangaroo, written down beside a river in 1770.
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Australia Has a Lake the Colour of Bubble Gum
On a small island off Western Australia sits a lake so pink it looks painted, and a glass of its water stays pink too, thanks to some very salty tiny residents.
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Bowerbird Rejects Bottle Cap for Being the Wrong Blue
The cap was round, clean and undeniably blue, and after four minutes of silent inspection the bowerbird carried it back out of the garden and dropped it by the shed.
Fact-based Weird Facts
Koalas Have Fingerprints Almost Identical to Ours
Under a microscope a koala's fingertip carries the same loops and whorls a human one does, close enough that specialists have struggled to tell the two apart.