The Strange People You'll Only Meet On the Subway

The More You Know

• The Canary Islands are named after dogs, not birds.
• Google's founders were willing to sell to Excite for less than $1 million in 1999, but Excite turned them down.
• A German and British aeroplane shot each other down in Norway during WWII. The crew met and helped each other survive. Two of them later visited each other many years after the war was over as friends.
• An 11-year-old is responsible for naming Pluto.