1. There are whales alive today that have been alive since before “Moby-Dick” was written . . . in 1851. They’re bowhead whales off the coast of Alaska, and they’re over 200 years old.
2. The opposite side of the world from where you are is called the antipode. For most of the continental U.S., it’s somewhere in the Indian Ocean, between southern Africa and Australia. (What’s YOUR antipode? Here’s a map.)
3. Anderson Cooper doesn’t have any formal journalism training. He got his degree in political science from Yale and did his summer internships at the CIA.
