Animal Eyes

Here’s Jamin Warren on the game: “It’s created a kind of global arcade. Instead of a few kids looking over the shoulder of the hot-shot older brother or whatever, down at the mall, you have millions of people watching, and the person playing the game is a millionaire.”

It’s fascinating that the largest animal ever to have lived on earth, the blue whale, feeds on nothing but krill, shrimp-like creatures that are among the smallest sea-dwellers. But it takes 36 metric tons of krill a day to allay an adult blue whale’s hunger. That’s the weight of 25 cars!

Big Ben might be the name of London’s much-loved bell, but do you know what Ben’s Parisian counterpart is called? Emmanuel! Emmanuel is the main bell swinging in Notre Dame Cathedral and weighs an impressive 13 tonnes. There’s no word on whether Emmanuel and Quasimodo got along though.