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Octopus Stinkhorn Mushroom looks like an octopus and stinks like rotting flesh

19th January 201819th January 2018 Editorial Team australia, fungus, mushrooms, New Zealand, octopus

The Octopus Stinkhorn Mushroom looks like an octopus and stinks like rotting flesh to attract flies that spread its spores, ensuring that its species spreads.

Cartoon illustration of a man in a sauna

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Finland has 3.3 million saunas for a population of 5.3 million!

19th January 2018 Editorial Team Finland, saunas, word origins

Finland has 3.3 million saunas for a population of 5.3 million! They can be found in homes, offices, sports centres, hotels, ships and even mines.

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The rainbow eucalyptus is the most colourful tree in the world

19th January 2018 Editorial Team eucalyptus, trees

Eucalyptus deglupta or the “rainbow eucalyptus” is the most colourful tree in the world. The previous season’s bark peels off in strips to reveal a brightly coloured new bark below, with vertical streaks of red, orange, green, purple, blue and grey.

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Only seven people in the world have the ‘keys to the Internet’

19th January 201819th January 2018 Editorial Team internet

Only seven people in the world have the ‘keys to the Internet’. In the event of a catastrophe, the DNSSEC (domain name system security) could be damaged or compromised and we’d be unable to verify if a URL was pointing to the correct website.