In fact, Bejan and his colleagues found that interactions between the hand and the water when the fingers are slightly spread increase the total force a swimmer can exert, translating to faster times in the pool.

MSN: Fastest swimmers make webbed hands out of water

Since a bestselling book published in 1983 argued that freemasons exert a malign influence in public life, people have tried to force freemasons to declare themselves.

ECONOMIST: Freemasonry