The Strange People You'll Only Meet On the Subway

The More You Know

• In 1945, Dwight D. Eisenhower predicted that people would try to dispel the holocaust as a falsehood, and ordered all possible photographs taken of the Nazi crimes to hinder any such attempts.
• Hippos produce their own sunblock.
• A Nepalese doctor has restored the sight of over 100,000 often poverty-stricken people in the last thirty years across Asia and Africa using a 5 minute procedure and an inexpensive artificial lens.
• Four times more people speak English as a second language than as a native one.