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The eagle on the back of the dollar bill is meant to convey both war and peace, with arrows held in its left talon and an olive branch in its right talon.

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The number 13 is everywhere. We already mentioned the 13 steps on the pyramid, but look further and you'll see that the number 13 pops up in a few other places on the currency. There are 13 arrows in the eagle's talon as well as 13 stripes and 13 stars on the Great Seal.

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According to the Federal Reserve's latest calculations from 2019, there are a total of 43.4 billion bills circulating in the United States. That breaks down roughly as the following:
12.4 billion $1 bills
1.3 billion $2 bills
3.1 billion $5 bills
2.0 billion $10 bills
9.4 billion $20 bills
1.8 billion $50 bills
13.4 billion $100 bills

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A "star" on a bill means it's a replacement for one with an error. When an imperfection is detected on a bill after a serial number has already been overprinted, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing replaces it with a "star note" before it goes into circulation. A star note is a note with the same serial number with an asterisk added to the end of it. These bills are more scarce than notes with traditional serial numbers, but carry the exact same value as any other dollar.

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While NASA is in fact working on ways to destroy or deflect an incoming asteroid, it's possible that blowing one up would just shatter it into pieces that could still damage Earth. Even worse, a recent study shows the asteroid's own gravity could help it re-form. But if scientists don't get enough warning, a “robust disruption and dispersal of the fragments may be the only viable option to prevent the impact,” says Megan Bruck Syal, a planetary defense researcher at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

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You bring up something Lee. What do Back to the Future and Indiana Jones have in common? No, not just Steven Spielberg. In Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (no, not my favorite), Indy escapes into the Nevada desert only to find a deserted town filled with mannequins and life at a stand-still. There's a warning siren and he realizes he's on a nuclear test range. He escapes oblivion by climbing into a refrigerator just before the bomb goes off. Our hero escapes death. I guess Steven Spielberg had to use the refrigerator trick somewhere! There's supposed to be a 5th movie in the works. I hope it's better than the 4th.

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Barrett-Jackson cancels Northeast Auction for 2020

Indy 5 is definitely going to be different. Spielberg will not be the director. “Ford v Ferrari” director James Mangold is in talks to take the job. Spielberg will be a producer on the movie. George Lucas, co-creator has officially retired. Jonathan Kasdan (son of “Raiders of the Lost Ark” scribe Lawrence Kasdan) was brought on to take a pass on the script after original screenwriter David Koepp left the project. Harrison Ford will be the only returning person from the previous 4 movies.

It's current release date is July 9, 2021 but that date is not "cast in concrete" yet.

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Kevin Anthony Prall, New Kensington, Pennsylvania, 2019 winner of our inaugural America’s Best Front Yard contest.

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Union Pacific RR has put 12,000 car transport railroad cars into mothball status, parked in a line from almost Mt Vernon to Pinckneyville IL, that's over 50 miles of them

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Should be about due for an Optispark! :)

My favorite sign near Nashville, In.

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Beachgoers at Dockweiler State Beach, California, admiring the bioluminescent phytoplankton on April 29, 2020.

Now that's original.

Reminds me of the VW Bug that was built like that.

pardon my ignorance, but is that light reflecting on the ocean waves?

No. It's light generated by bioluminescent phytoplankton. Millions of tiny creatures that glow blue when agitated by the movement of the water.

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One of the most common bioluminescent creatures on Earth: Fireflies.

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For the first time in its 115 year history, New York City deliberately shut down its entire subway system, to deep clean every subway car

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1953 Dodge B-4-C-116 Powers Floodlight Unit

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Spaghetto, confetto, and graffito are the singular forms of spaghetti, confetti, and graffiti.

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The average U.S. household has 300,000 things in it.

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Most of us are well aware that lobster shells change color when exposed to heat (like in a pot of boiling water, for example). But the sea creatures' blood is also intriguing. Lobster blood is initially clear and turns blue when it hits oxygen.

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The longest place name in the world is 85 letters long. It's located in New Zealand

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More than 300 million years ago, the Meganeura established itself as the largest known flying insect to ever exist on Earth. The dragonfly-like creature had a wingspan that stretched around 2.5 feet. The bugs were also big enough to hunt prey like frogs and newts, which it could eat with its teeth-like mandibles.

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Shakespeare wrote some of the most beloved and revered pieces of literature the world has ever known, but in order to craft his plays and poems, he sometimes resorted to making up his own words. In fact, The Bard is said to have come up with more than 1,700 words including moonbeam, laughable, eyeball, bump, puking, champion, bedroom, excitement, and zany.

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When Santa Claus makes his trip around the world on Christmas Eve, you can rest assured that he's legally allowed to drive his sleigh—at least in the United States. In 1927, the jolly man in the red suit was given a pilot's license from the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics William P. MacCracken.