My favourite discoveries are the things where it’s not just that I don’t know something but I didn’t know that I didn’t know it.

https://twitter.com/annbot/status/809877043001356289

This story on the megaherbs of the sub-antarctic has plenty of that. This link was popular on Twitter against a lot of competition, and just missed out on taking top spot on Facebook too.

Facebook went for Atlas Obscura‘s post on ferns.

We could also say the same about this, narrowly missing top spot on Twitter for shares.

However, it wasn’t close for the top blog post.