Mount Everest’s Khumbu Glacier is melting in part due to human urine; more than 6,000 liters are produced daily by thousands of climbers and guides.
With six suspects, six weapons, and nine rooms, there are exactly 324 possible solutions to the board game Clue.
Regarding the stop-motion, animated series “Wallace and Gromit,” creator Nick Park says Gromit was originally a cat, but he had trouble creating that model so he switched to a dog. And Shaun the Sheep almost spoke, but the studio decided it’d be better to create a silent comedy with little or no dialogue.
The late Carl Dean, husband of the late Dolly Parton, sometimes pretended to be her gardener when journalists came knocking.
In August 1950, in the first episode of “Crusader Rabbit,” the idealistic young Crusader Rabbit springs his future sidekick Rags the Tiger from a traveling circus to help him wage war against Texas, after hearing of its campaign to drive out every last jackrabbit.
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This article appears in September 11 • 2026.