Three Things I Learned today about: Sheep, Lizards and Old Hotels.
This is what a sheep looks like if it doesn't get shorn for 6 years. Enough wool to have made 20 men's suits. (via Fark).
Lots of weird things are names after U.S. Presidents including extinct lizards. Below is an artists rendering of an Obamadon, recently discovered, long gone and named after President Obama. (via NPR)
It's Joseph Mitchell's birthday today. Mitchell wrote for the New Yorker for nearly 60 years between 1938 and his death in 1996, chronicling the weird, forgotten corners of New York City as no one has before or since. His collection Up in the Old Hotel should be required reading for every aspiring nonfiction writer (via The Book Maven).