FROM DAY 6 • THE HALF-DOZEN MOST INTERESTING FACTS AND FIGURES BRENT BAMBURY FOUND THIS WEEK

A retired Special Forces officer in the U. K. is crossing the ocean in a 20- metre homemade metal vessel resembling a whale.

thesun.co.uk The youth wing of the Swedish People’s Party, the seventh- largest in the Riksdag, has voted to legalize incest and necrophilia.

independent.co.uk An experiment at the Georgia Institute of Technology finds in an emergency most subjects follow a robot even if it leads them away from safety.

newscientist.com The bar in Italy’s parliament is getting shortchanged by MPs with 34 members owing € 20,000 in unpaid bar tabs in 2013.

thelocal.it Google is denying its traffic app Waze accidentally directed IDF soldiers into a west bank Palestinian refugee camp, inciting violence.

middle- east- online. com The nude model at a life drawing class in New York on Feb. 21 was rock star Iggy Pop, 68, and the drawings will be shown this fall in Brooklyn.

theguardian.com