Faith in humanity, restored.
1. Stubbs the cat is the mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska. Every afternoon, Stubbs gets to go a restaurant and drink catnip-water out of a wineglass.
2. There's a biker gang that dedicates itself to fighting child abuse and making abused children feel safer.
3. The word "love" appears in The Beatles' songs a total of 613 times.
4. During the first World War, British and German soldiers declared a truce for Christmas, and even played impromptu soccer games in the trenches.
5. A 17-year-old girl named Jackie Mitchell was given a professional baseball contract in 1931 and then struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in an exhibition game.
6. Humans invented broccoli.
7. Last year, hundreds of volunteers formed a human wall to help protect endangered baby sea turtles and help them find their way to the ocean.
8. Guerrilla knitting, or "yarn bombing," is a thing.
9. The Nicest Place On The Internet exists.
10. In 1972, one of the Apollo 17 astronauts wrote his daughter's initials on the surface of the moon. The initials are still there and will probably be there for 50,000 years.
11. Legendary baseball manager Tony LaRussa has 17 cats.
