Priceless Thrift Store Finds That Prove One Man’s Trash Is Another Man’s Treasure

The More You Know

• Mount Everest is bigger now than the last time it was measured.
• War pigs were used in ancient warfare to counter against war elephants, which feared the pigs (and their squeals) and would bolt. War pigs were sometimes lit on fire to enhance this effect.
• Glaciers and ice sheets hold about 69 percent of the world's freshwater.
• Singapore plans to build floating burbs.