"A beluga whale long believed to be a Russian spy..." Excuse me, what?!
Seeing Beyond the Beauty of a Vermeer. Teju Cole visits the unprecedented Rijksmuseum exhibition and finds the trouble in Vermeer's paintings. What a great read.
What Happened When I Stopped Drinking. "I put down the bottle and picked up everything else."
How the U.S. Almost Became a Nation of Hippo Ranchers. "In 1910, a failed House bill sought to increase the availability of low-cost meat by importing hippopotamuses that would be killed to make 'lake cow bacon.'"
You can buy a 4-inch cube of tungsten online for only $4000. Tungsten is one of the densest metals so this small cube (about the size of a pint of ice cream) weighs a whopping 41.6 pounds.
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