Color Vision Test

The employees at the Unclaimed Baggage Centre at Scottsboro Airport have made some interesting finds over the years, most notably a camera from a space shuttle and – amazingly – the missile guidance system of a fighter jet. Someone must have had a lot of explaining to do...

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.

Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable? In 1893, a ruling by the Supreme Court made the tomato a vegetable, officially! It is, however, actually a fruit. It seems as though the age-old debate will continue on for generations!