The bones of a pigeon are said to weigh less than its feathers.

It’s said that a certain species of shark lays the largest eggs in the world.

Nope. I am not even going to try to get one, even if I have a major craving for a sunny side up.

You have to see these to believe:

Rug Clock: only turns off if your full weight is on it. (But how would it know if your full weight is on it? What if its default weight is 200 lbs. and you happen to weigh only 100?

Every time you poke it to set off its alarm, it rises slightly, forcing you to eventually get up completely.

Touching it would send a jolt of electricity to you.

The clock’s connected to the Internet. Not turning off the alarm will transfer your money to a charitable institution. At least it’s going to a good cause.

When it sets off, the puzzle pieces fly away from the clock itself, and you have to reassemble it to turn the darn alarm off.

You know how in some movies they show absent-minded professors, usually scientists who are so focused with their studies that they lose touch of reality,at least temporarily, like Rick Moranis’s Wayne Szalinski of "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids"?  Apparently, they’re based on real people, like Andre-Marie Ampere, who, while walking along the streets of Paris, began making calculations on the side of a horse-drawn delivery van because he somehow mistook it for a blackboard, and then began running after it while continuing his writings as it drove off. Then there’s also Sewall Wright, who accidentally used a guinea pig for a chalkboard eraser. 

And you thought your teachers were spazzy.

Stumbled upon a Wiki site that I thought was extremely interesting.

Did you know that there’s a record of stones that move by themselves? Called the "sailing stones", "sliding rocks", or "moving rocks", these can be found in Racetrack Playa in Death Valley, California. Nobody knows why these move: the rocks are too heavy to be moved by wind. Other factors are also not considered, since if water or anything else moved them, the tracks of the rocks would’ve been disturbed. They also couldn’t have been moved by humans, because the footprints would’ve appeared on the ground pretty easily (the soil/sand is such that anything that happens on the surface level would leave marks on it).

You can read more about it here.

So is that why the place is called Racetrack Playa? Because the rocks race each other?