It must be true...

I read it in the tabloids

■ A 19-year-old drawn by an ad for an inexpensive twobedroom apartment unwittingly moved into an Arkansas retirement community. After finding an apartment online for $350 a month, Madison Kohout signed the lease sight unseen. It was only a week after moving in that she noticed something unusual. “I thought it was a bit weird that all of my neighbors were significantly older than me,” she said. She reports numerous benefits to living with seniors, including friendly neighbors offering home-cooked meals and the freedom to “play music whenever I want to, because some of them can’t hear.”

■ A bottle of French wine that was “matured in a unique environment”— outer space—is expected to sell for as much as $1 million. The auction house Christie’s is asking for bids on one of 12 bottles of Pétrus 2000 that were sent into orbit for a year aboard the International Space Station, as part of a project to learn how plants respond to space conditions. The fine Bordeaux—which usually sells for $10,000 a bottle—came back with subtle flavor changes, according to wine experts.

“It was delicious on return to Earth,” said Christie’s wine director Tim Tiptree, who said the wine is at its peak now but “will last at least another two or three decades.”

■ A woman who didn’t realize she was pregnant gave birth to a son on a flight to Honolulu. “This guy just came out of nowhere,” said Lavinia “Lavi” Mounga of her son, who arrived prematurely at 29 weeks. The surprise birth was assisted by a family-medicine physician and three neonatal intensivecare nurses who happened to be on board. Mounga said it was “overwhelming” to have such skilled help present.