One: This rare cover illustration for a Tintin comic—‘The Blue Lotus’—sold for a record-setting $3.84 million last week. Smithsonian has more on why this Hergé creation is so highly valued.
Two: There is a right way to stroke a cat—and in all likelihood, you are doing it entirely wrong. No, they do not like belly rubs! BBC Science Focus has all the cat-cuddling dope you need.
Three: Acclaimed novelist Patricia Highsmith (of ‘Talented Mr Ripley’ fame) was a self-professed ‘Jew-hater’—who had her most significant love affairs with Jewish women! The Guardian has more in this review of a new biography.
Four: The happiest years of a human being’s life are 23 and 69—as per scientific research. The reason: “Young people strongly overestimate their future life satisfaction while the elderly tend to underestimate it.” Mel Magazine has more.
Five: In 2016, Mike Tyson went to Suriname to participate in a birdsong competition, and brought his own bird. See, we saved the best for last.
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