"Blue is the typical heavenly colour. The ultimate feeling it creates is one of rest. When it sinks to almost black it echoes grief that is hardly human." ~ Wassily Kandinsky

Nuclear-generated electricity kills fewer humans per megawatt than any other source. This includes solar and hydro power.

Clocks run from left to right due to that being the way sundials cast shadows in the northern hemisphere.

Canada is in the process of naming its thousands of nameless lakes after fallen soldiers.

Billboards are banned in Hawaii (and three other US states).

In 2010 an American man was caught in northern Pakistan trying to hunt down Osama bin Laden. He was armed with a sword.