It lacked hugs 🫂

The famous Hungarian-American stunt performer Harry Houdini (1874-1926), noted for his sensational escape acts. He first attracted notice in the US and and later in Europe, where he challenged police forces to keep him locked up. Soon he extended his repertoire to include chains, ropes slung from skyscrapers, straitjackets under water, and having to escape from and hold his breath inside sealed tanks of water.

Bamboo Forest in Japan

Google's self driving project, Waymo goes the wrong way on a public road

John Tyler, who served as the tenth president of the United States from 1841 to 1845. When the American Civil War began in 1861, Tyler at first supported the Peace Conference. When it failed, he remained loyal to Virginia and sided with the Confederacy. He presided over the opening of the Virginia Secession Convention and served as a member of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States. Tyler subsequently won election to the Confederate House of Representatives but died before it assembled.

Builders in Germany use water jets when demolishing a tower to minimise the spread of dust.

The deer when walking 🦌

When a deer steps on its foot, its toes extend, its side hooves rest against the snow, and a brush of stiff hair creates a surface that does not slip and hardly slips into the snow or swamp.

Tibetan soldiers wearing old ceremonial armor, c. 1900

Changing colours during sleep.

Although raccoons are immune to most infectious diseases, they can carry them.

A man standing with piles of buffalo skulls, Michigan Carbon Works, Rougeville Michigan, 1892. Due to irresponsible over-hunting and shooting bison for sport, by the late 1800s their numbers had plummeted from around 30 million to a mere 325, marking a catastrophic decline.

Hitachi Park, Japan

Members of the French Resistance being taken for execution after a trial before a German military tribunal, Paris, 14 April 1942

A smartphone helps driving in heavy rain.