This year, my face was put on billboards around Denmark, I learned I was the 10,000th baby born in Washington State the year I was born, and I read, a lot. Here’s some of what I read.
- Glow-in-the-dark kittens are helping fight feline AIDS. [Charles Q. Choi]
- Denmark contributes two-thirds of Greenland’s budget revenue. The rest comes mainly from fishing. [BBC]
- In 1628, a 2,420,000 pound Swedish warship sank on its maiden voyage after just 10 minutes of sailing. It sat forgotten on the bottom of a Stockholm harbor for three-hundred years before being rediscovered and brought—intact — to the surface. [The Vasa]
- The bloodstained, pink Chanel suit that Jackie Kennedy wore the day of John F. Kennedy’s assassination is locked away in a windowless vault where the air is changed three times an hour to properly maintain the cloth. The suit will not be displayed to the public until the year 2103. [Randi Kaye]
- Bitcoin mining accounts for about the same total annual energy consumption as Sri Lanka. [Christian Stoll]
- In 2010, millionaire art dealer Forrest Fenn hid a treasure chest filled with gold nuggets, rare coins, jewelry, and gemstones worth an estimated $2 million dollars in the Rocky Mountains. A 24-line poem hints at its location. Four people have died looking for it; it…
