ISSUE 8, Berries

• Strawberries are not berries, they are related to grapes. The same is true for raspberries and blackberries. 

• Berries are fruits that are produced by a single flower ovary. 

• Bananas, Cucumbers, Oranges, Blueberries and Peppers are Berries. 

• Chilly Peppers are also Berries, the burning sensation chillies cause isn't present in Birds, when birds eat chilli peppers they don't feel a burning sensation in their mouths. 

• Potatoes Produce berries but they taste bad to humans and are slightly poisonous. 

ISSUE 7

• Orcas, commonly known as Killer Whales are actually the largest species of Dolphin in the world. 

• Marsupials are not exclusive to Australia, there are Marsupials in North and South America and Parts of Asia. 

• The largest Marsupial to Ever live as far as we know is the Diprotodon, it was 3 meters long and 2 meters tall and is estimated to weigh 2.7 metric tonnes. It was the size of today's Rhinos. It was a herbivore. 

• The Largest known Lizard to ever have Existed is the Megalania. It was native to Australia and thought to be over 5 meters long and over half a metric ton in weight. The true size of the Animal is not known for sure because the fossils are too incomplete to get an accurate estimate. 

ISSUE 6

• In the Computer Game Sonic and Knuckles, Knuckles is an Echidna.

• Echidnas are Monotreme Mammals, they look like Hedgehogs but they lay eggs, one of the few Mammal species that does so. 

• Monotremes are a type of Mammal that reproduce by Laying eggs. Monotremes only exist in Australia and New Guinea. 

• Platypuses are also Monotremes and also Lay eggs  to reproduce and they are Mammals that look like ducks and beavers at the same time. Plus they have a poisonous sting behind their legs that can cause extreme pain. 

ISSUE 5

It is believed that the music band R.E.M wrote the song "shiny happy people" to mock their record label for demanding they make an upbeat song, the band hate the song. They usually write dark songs like "Loosing my religion" and "Everybody hurts". 

Despite hating their song, it became the band's biggest hit and was number one in both America and UK in the 90s. 

It is believed that Michael Jackson was involved in the music for the game "Sonic the hedgehog 3" but hated the hardware they were using so he walked away from the project. Some people claim they can hear tunes used in his music in the music for the game on some of the levels. They salvaged some of his incompleted work and used it anyway. 

ISSUE 4

• The moon has made the Earth less windy. The moon pulls on the Earth and that has slowed down the Earth's rotation speed. It is the rotation of the Earth that causes storm cells to spin. If the moon didn't exist then the storms on Earth would be more than twice as strong as they are now. 

• The more snakes there are, the less people die. It has been proven that if a place has many snakes then less people will die. The reason is believed to be because they hunt creatures that spread diseases such as rats and bats. The same is true for spiders, spiders hunt flying insects that spread diseases such as Salmonella. 

• Nintendo is more than 200 years old. They started out as a company that makes playing cards. 

ISSUE 3

• Dead alkaline batteries bounce higher then charged ones. When an alkaline battery looses it's charge, the gel inside them turns solid. 

• Bees never defecate in the hive, the fly out of the hive to use the toilet. 

• USA bought Alaska from Russia for  $7.2 million. 

• It is believed that it rains Diamonds on Jupiter and Saturn. 

• On the Berge Califa, you can see the sun set twice. Once from the ground floor and one minute later after taking a lift to the top floor because it is so tall. 

• Jelly fish take up 40% of all the biomass in the ocean

•The inventor of the pringles tub had his ashes put into a pringles tub after he died. (They stayed in crisp condition) 

• Lizards can't breathe while they are running because the muscles that move their legs push their lungs flat. 

ISSUE 2

• In the movie "The Matrix" the scenes set in the matrix are tinted green slightly, this is to create the effect of an artificial world awareness.  

• In the movie "The Matrix", the scenes that were set outside the Matrix were tinted blue slightly to create the effect of a dull real world. 

• The Earth doesn't orbit the sun, it orbits the solar system's center of mass. A spot that is very close to the sun's surface.