During the Battle of the Ardennes in 1914, French and German troops literally stumbled into each other on the battlefield due to the thick fog.

If you were to travel through a wormhole you would theoretically come out the other end as plasma.

Neato Mentions | The Albatross

What are Neato’s Mentions you say? Sometimes we want to take a moment to write something slightly longer than a quick fact but not a full blown article. Some things in this world deserve more than just a slap of a mention, like jello, or dinosaurs.

So maybe you were expecting moon robots or real life yoshi’s that live in the wild.. more on those later. Not some dumb bird. So why the Albatross?

Firstly, the name.. I mean come on.. Albatross. →

John F. Kennedy did not accept his presidential salary of $100,000/year and $50,000/year expense account. He donated it to charity.

The hippopotamus has the world’s shortest sperm.

The Weddell Seal can travel underwater for seven miles without surfacing for air.

February 27th in 1964 – The government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.

A multinational task force of engineers , mathematicians and historians gathered on the Azores islands to discuss stabilisation methods. … Many methods were proposed to stabilise the tower, including the addition of 800 tonnes of lead counterweights to the raised end of the base.

February 26th in 1815 – Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba.

In the first few months on Elba he created a small navy and army, developed the iron mines, and issued decrees on modern agricultural methods

February 25th in 1971 – The first unit of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, the first commercial nuclear power station in Canada, goes online.

February 24th in 1868 – Andrew Johnson becomes the first President of the United States to be impeached by the United States House of Representatives. He is later acquitted in the Senate.