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I’ve got some bad news about sea otters. (Click here to pre-order Sad Animal Facts : Amazon, Barnes&Noble, Powell’s)

I’ve got some bad news about hedgehogs. (Click here to pre-order Sad Animal Facts : Amazon, Barnes&Noble, Powell’s)

A solitary fisherman’s home keeps watch on quiet Placentia Bay in Newfoundland, Canada, 1974.Photograph by Sam Abell, National Geographic Creative

"It was very tough at first. Moving to a new country is like being born all over again. You are just like a baby. You can’t speak, you can’t move around, and you don’t know the culture."

Paris, France via *bratan*

K-Cup Cocktails, MIxed Drinks Made With Flavored Single Serve Packs

The gorgeous Isle of Sark, the smallest self-governing island in Europe, is located in the English channel 130 miles off the southern English coast. In January 2011 it became the world’s first “Dark Sky island” by controlling light pollution. The island’s single electricity source is an oil-fired power station, and there are no cars, streetlights or even paved roads: you can only get around by bike, horse, carriage or tractor-drawn bus. Due to the lack of light pollution, the Milky Way stretches gloriously overhead—from horizon to horizon across the pristine black sky.