A nature center in Missouri just threw a 41st birthday party for a turtle named Peanut.  Her name is Peanut because she’s shaped like one.  She got caught in a plastic six-pack ring in the ’80s, so the middle of her shell couldn’t grow.  But luckily, she’s lived a good long life anyway and became an anti-littering icon. The E.P.A. now requires all six-pack rings to be degradable, but they take months to break…

The world’s oldest person just celebrated another birthday.  Ethel Caterham was born in England in 1909 and turned 116 on Thursday.  Her advice to people younger than her . . . so, literally everyone on Earth . . . is “say yes to every opportunity, because you never know what it will lead to.”

A four-year-old kid near Detroit called 911 last weekend to tell them how much he loves soccer and swimming.  Cops did a welfare check, found out his brother’s birthday was Sunday, and came back with gifts.  They bought them a soccer net for their backyard.