
The longest abdominal plank ever was held for 8 hours and 1 minute.

Of the 967 people who died in jail in the U.S. in 2013, 76% had not been convicted of a crime.

Around 10:15 AM ET, signal-acquisition from the New Horizon’s spacecraft is expected to begin followed by the first download of science data from the flyby of Ultima Thule, some 9 hours prior. It takes a little over 6 hours for the signal to arrive at NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN).
The link includes details of where to watch and the timeline of press events for this historic mission.

The town of Sugar Land in the U.S. was offered US$500,000 to change its name to SugarDaddie.com.

A 2011 poll of nearly 1,000 biomedical scientists conducted by the science journal Nature found that more than 90% agreed that the use of animals in research is essential.