Big History Quiz

Want to add a healthy red tint to your hair? Try using beetroot, traditionally used as a natural hair dye! How about you’ve written an awful word in pen and need to erase it? Use the outside of a cucumbers and watch it disappear before your very eyes. See, vegetables really are amazing.

Nature can be brilliantly messed up. Creatures that trick other species to raise their young are called ‘brood parasites’. An example of this is the ‘brown-headed cowbird’, which dives into other birds nests, knocks out one of the eggs and replaces it with their own. How cheeky is that! This relieves the cowbird from its parental duties, and the host bird diligently raises the little cowbird none the wiser.

The Pokémon Yamask is carrying the mask of a human. Yeah, it’s pretty dark. Allegedly the mon was once a human itself and still has memories of its time as a person. You know what else is pretty grim? If you were to wear the mask you would become possessed by it. Forever. Man, Pokémon can be so dark.