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Chilled below about 2.17 kelvin, liquid helium becomes a superfluid that creeps up and over the walls of its container in a film only tens of atoms thick, emptying an open cup by itself.
The film flows without viscosity, so gravity cannot hold it back, a dramatic everyday-scale display of quantum mechanics.
Source: Superfluid film (Wikipedia)
Today’s design
Butterfly Chair (BKF)
A leather sling slung over a folding steel frame — endlessly copied ever since.
See the real Butterfly Chair (BKF) →A new fact every morning.Tuesday, 13 October 2026