2 fun facts about Gloria Estefan:

1. She’s part owner of the Miami Dolphins
2. She’s a good climber

Guests at the new Vdara hotel have been complaining that because of an architectural flaw on the glass skyscraper, the sun’s rays are being magnified and reflected onto an area of the pool, causing severe burns. There have been reports that even plastic has melted from the heat.

Voting for the winning candidate makes guys want to watch pornography, a study suggests.

Building on past studies of testosterone levels, a husband-and-wife team of psychologists examined Internet usage and found a pattern between the number of search requests for porn and the states that backed the winners in the last two presidential elections, as well as in the congressional election between them.

Train Kills Elephants Trying to Protect Babies

Upon reading the story, it gets less interesting…

Seven elephants have been killed by a speeding freight train in eastern India, after two baby elephants strayed onto the tracks and older ones followed to try to save them.

At the time, she and Pawel were active in Warsaw’s neo-Nazi movement. “I was a nationalist 100 percent. Back then when we were skinheads it was all about white power… that Jews were the biggest plague and the worst evil of this world,” Pawel said.

Both 33, they’ve now embraced their Jewish identity and are active in their local orthodox synagogue.

Katy Perry, and her Hot ‘n Cold remix, have been edited out from an upcoming episode of Sesame Street.

Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert is slated to testify at a congressional
hearing Friday on immigration titled “Protecting America’s Harvest.”

One Republican source said Colbert will be testifying “in character,” the Bill O’Reilly-like muse Colbert uses for his show.

A House Judiciary Committee spokeswoman, confirming Colbert would testify, said the hearing matter was a “serious issue . . . this is not a TV stunt.”

An ear of corn has more DNA proteins (32,000) than a human being (23,000).

Source: PBS