This annual edition covers the origins of Halloween and how a whole nation pretended parsnips were bananas. We get into how a stronger jaw can shrink your arms and why microplastics are not, in fact, in your nuts. We spell out why having enough pipelines to go to the moon can leave you with nothing to show for it, and worse, and how a dozen recent observations may have broken our model of the universe. We consider how ancient housing policy was more humane than today and NGOs "reliant upon government funding" have, curiously, gotten effectively no funding from the government. We delve into how doctors don't want to give, and you don't want to get, the finger as well as some guesses that just one nation is missing many millions of people. We discover how we dropped and even lost many nuclear bombs and torpedoes all over the planet, probably some near you, and how hallucinatory machines are already flattering us into eating our collective lunch. We walk through some wild conspiracy theories and also the account of an whole people being taken captive and consumed by their neighbours. We tell the story of a man who kayaked from Germany to Australia over seven years (and then sat in remote internment camps for another six). We reveal how the California condor is still recovering from Johnny Cash and how coral reefs, turtles, and polar bears are doing just fine. ...oh, and so much more.