42 - The Answer to Almost Everything

New doppelgangers are constantly being discovered: people who look eerily similar to each other-without being related.

What makes clouds actually move and do we have any control over it?

The situation is actually quite clear: the North Pole is in the north, the South Pole in the south. And a compass needle always points north. More precisely: to the magnetic North Pole, a point on Earth not far from the geographic North Pole.

Many people don't consider their sense of smell particularly important. However, if we had to give up one of our senses, surveys show that the majority would choose not to. In fact, 25 percent of students surveyed would rather lose their sense of smell than their smartphone.

As children, we all wondered if we could dig our way through the Earth. If we started digging in Paris and kept going downwards, we'd end up in the ocean after 12,700 kilometers, just off the coast of New Zealand. But it's not that simple.

Have you ever considered putting your life on ice? To wake up only when all of today's problems have been solved? Or simply to see what the Earth will look like in a hundred years?