The '''Ig Nobel Prize''' is an award presented annually since 1991 for achievements that "first make people laugh, and then make them think".Improbable Research, "About the Ig Nobel Prizes". Ten prizes are awarded each year, often handed over by genuine Nobel laureates, and the prize money has at times been a ten-trillion-dollar Zimbabwean banknote. Recipients have included the physics of [[Wombat|cube-shaped wombat faeces]] (2019) and a demonstration that a dead trout can be made to swim upstream (2024, Physics). {{stub}} == References == {{reflist}} [[Category:True but improbable]]