Spot the Difference

Turkeys have a lot of natural predators because they are just too darn tasty! What better way to seek protection than making themselves inconveniently accessible? When the sun begins to fizzle low against the horizon, the turkey flies up, up, up – into the trees. They fly up to a low branch and then hop clumsily upwards, branch by branch.

The popular board game Operation was initially developed as a college project. An industrial design student at the University of Illinois was tasked with designing a game or toy. The game was a hit with his fellow classmates and the idea was soon bought by Marvin Glass and Associates for 500 dollars (approximately 4000 dollars today)!

When author Ian Fleming was trying to find a name for his new character, he came across the book “Birds of the West Indies”, written by ornithologist James Bond. Fleming deemed the name perfect, because it was the dullest one he had ever heard, and he considered 007 extremely uninteresting.