I Went To the World Nettle-Eating Championship
People have been eating nettles in England since the Bronze Age. A recent archaeological dig discovered a bowl of nettle stew&n...
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What was the first song ever recorded?
Well, it turns out it was an accident. In 1860, the French printer and inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville sang a famous fol...
What is the oldest instrument in the world?
Have you ever wondered when humans started making music? Well, the answer dates back well beyond ancient civilizations such as the E...
Tokyo’s towering sewers | A look inside the world’s largest drain
Tokyo has long had to contend with flooding. The Japanese capital’s location on a shallow bay and atop a series of rivers leaves it...
How the Cold War dug the deepest hole in the world
This summer, China began digging a hole in the Xinjiang region with an eventual depth of over 36,000ft. This will mean cutting throu...
What is the longest corridor in the world?
The world’s longest corridor is believed to be at the British RAF Mount Pleasant Airforce base in the Falkland Islands. Nickna...
Badwater 135 Ultramarathon | The world’s toughest foot race
Earlier this month, in the height of southern Californian summer, the latest installment of the “world’s toughest footrace” took pla...
How mosquitoes are being used to fight dengue in Bali
Bali’s climate makes it one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world, but life on the Indonesian island also pres...
What is the world’s highest unclimbed mountain?
When Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay summited Mount Everest in May 1953, humans conquered the globe’s highest peak. In the 70 year...
What was the most expensive bottle of wine ever sold?
Think you splashed out on that bottle of red at dinner the other night? Chances are it was nothing compared to some of the wines men...