Did you know? Sunflowers are used to assist in clean up after a nuclear disaster. They are hyperaccumulators, capable of absorbing toxic heavy metals from the ground and have been planted at both Chernobyl and Fukushima in the attempt to aid in soil restoration.

When his 27-year-old son was declared brain dead by doctors and they threatened to turn off his life support, George Pickering II was not convinced by their assessment. Believing the hospital was planning to take his son off life support prematurely, Pickering smuggled a gun into the hospital and barricaded himself in his son’s room. However, in a pivotal moment of the tense three-hour stand off that was started, Pickering's son, previously declared braindead, responded to his father's request to squeeze his hand. Pickering faced charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and subsequently served a prison sentence of 11 months. Remarkably, his son survived, regained consciousness and experienced a complete recovery.

Fun fact The atlas moth has wings that mimic two snakes watching her back.

this is literally a real life Garfield 😭😭

Ruth Gordon Schnapp the first woman to be licensed as a structural engineer in the state of California. picture circa late '70's

Hardest first day of school picture ever 🫡

I love smoking by the water

Did you know? Michael Jackson's chimpanzee 'Bubbles' is still alive at 42 years old and living at the Center for Great Apes in Florida.