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Check that out, will you? Ilhan got her an O J Mobile.

 

Daily Wisecracks & Wisdom

Life is hard.
After all, it kills you.
Katharine Hepburn

Wacky & Weird Facts: Animals Part 26

Bowhead whales are amongst the longest-living mammals. In 2007, a specimen caught off the Alaskan coast was found to have a thirty-five-inch-long head of an explosive  harpoon embedded deep in its neck. The projectile was manufactured in Massachusetts around 1890, suggesting that the whale survived a hunt over a century ago.

The blue whale has the highest percentage of body fat of any animal at more than thirty-five percent. Whales can weigh up to 180 tons which means up to 63 tons of fat.

Humpback whales often let dolphins hitch a ride on their head for the sheer fun of it.

The jaguar is the national animal of Brazil.  It is the largest carnivorous mammal in Central and South America, weighing up to 211 pounds.

Astronomy Picture of the Day

3D 67P

Explanation: Put on your red/blue glasses and float next to the jagged and double-lobed nucleus of Churyumov-Gerasimenko, also known as Comet 67P . The stereo anaglyph was created by combining two images from the Rosetta spacecraft’s narrow angle OSIRIS camera taken on July 25, 2015 from a distance of 184 kilometers. Numerous jets are emanating from the small solar system world’s active surface near its closest approach to the Sun. The larger lobe is around 4 kilometers in diameter, joined to a smaller, 2.5 kilometer diameter lobe by a narrow neck. Rosetta’s mission to the comet ended in September 2016 when the spacecraft was commanded to a controlled impact with the comet’s surface . Keep those 3D glasses on though. You can check out a catalog of nearly 1400 stereo anaglyphs created from Rosetta image data on this website.

Tomorrow’s picture: open space

Bible Verse

God will give each person what they deserve
for the things that they have done.