Since at least 1939, the year Verna Hills is credited with first publishing one of the 20th century’s most enduring children’s tune, toddlers have learned that the wheels on the bus go round and round.
One question that song doesn’t address is why the wheels on buses — and other automobiles — sometimes appear to be going round and round in the wrong direction.
That’s just one of the questions we take on this week in another “rapid-fire” edition of The Curiosity Desk.
We also dig into whether there is a difference between a spiderweb and a cobweb, and explore how a popular 17th century English dessert gave one of this area’s quirkier geological features its name.
WATCH: Answering your questions — from cobwebs to puddingstone
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