Spotted by Dave Hopkinson.
Are dolphins getting high?
A bite of puffer fish can paralyse and kill a human, but dolphins have been seen using the spiky lethal creatures as a chew toy, leading humans to wonder if the sea mammals were getting a buzz off the neurotoxin found in the fish. Zoologist
Rob Pilley told Britain's Sunday Times: "This was a case of young dolphins purposely experimenting with something we know to be intoxicating ... After chewing the puffer gently and passing it around, they began acting most peculiarly, hanging around with their noses at the surface as if fascinated by their own reflection."
Have you heard the one about ...
1. A politician from the United Kingdom, John Bell, believed that he was a bird, stating that he could fly much better than a bird because he kept his shoulders oiled. Despite his state of mind, he remained a Member of Parliament until his death in 1851.
2. A Berlin-based artist tricked Google Maps into thinking that a completely empty street was bursting with traffic by filling a wagon with 99 smartphones, opening Maps navigation on all of them, and then slowly pulling the wagon along Berlin streets.
