1. There’s only one male northern white rhino in the world . . . and he’s protected 24 hours a day by armed guards in Kenya.
LOWER SABIE, SOUTH AFRICA – JULY 07: A newly born White Rhinoceros walks with it’s motherl in Kruger National Park on July 7, 2013 in Lower Sabie, South Africa. The Kruger National Park was established in 1898, and is South Africa’s premier wildlife park, spanning an area of approximately 2 million hectares. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
2. Maine was almost a Canadian province called New Ireland. The British seized it for Canada during the War of 1812, but eventually decided to pull out their troops and give it back to America.
Four lumberjacks stand on a logjam in a river, using sticks to break up the mass of lumber, Maine, circa 1930. (Photo by Lass/Getty Images)
3. There was only one guy who survived the atomic bombings in both Hiroshima AND Nagasaki. His name is Tsutomu Yamaguchi and he died in 2010, at age 93.
This picture taken on August 2, 2008 in the Japanese city of Nagasaki, western Japan shows Tsutomu Yamaguchi, who survived the US atomic bombings of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Yamaguchi, 93, the only person officially recognised as a survivor of the two attacks, died on January 4, 2010 at a hospital in Nagasaki, it was reported on January 6, 2010. AFP PHOTO / JIJI PRESS (Photo credit should read JIJI PRESS/AFP/Getty Images)
4. North Korea just decided to create its own time zone. And this weekend, they’ll pause for a half hour so their clocks are 30 minutes behind Japan and South Korea.
5. The first actor to play James Bond was an American. Barry Nelson played him in an episode of a TV show called “Climax!” in 1954 . . . eight years before the first Bond movie.
LONDON, ENGLAND – MARCH 18: A general view ahead of the opening of the Bond In Motion exhibition at the London Film Museum on March 18, 2014 in London, England. The Exhibition is the largest official collection of original Bond vehicles and opens on the 21st March to the general public. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images for London Film Museum)
