Today is the 60th anniversary of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends, so in their honor, here's a real life moose who inadvertently helped foil a crime. Plus: a woman in Sacramento puts out a public call for her missing domesticated squirrel, Squeakers.

Wandering moose stolen vehicle (CBC)

‘I just need my baby’: Sacramento woman offers reward for missing squirrel, Squeakers (Sacramento Bee)

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November 18, 1883 is when railroads across the United States adopted a uniform system of time, more or less getting all of us in sync with each other. But what was time like before then? Plus: Japan has had cat cafes, hedgehog cafes and bunny cafes. Now there's a minipig cafe! 

Time! (Library of Congress)

Standard Time Zones In U.S. Mark 100 Years (New York Times)  

The Adoption of Standard TimeIan R. Bartky (Technology and Culture) 

Mipig Harajuku: We visit the new micro pig cafe in Tokyo (Sora News)

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Underwater photos are usually greenish or blueish and the brighter colors are washed out. An engineer and oceanographer has come up with an algorithm she calls Sea-thru that can bring those colors back into the image. Plus: the Las Vegas Pizza Festival is about to get underway. 

Sea-thru Brings Clarity to Underwater Photos (Scientific American)

Las Vegas Pizza Festival

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Who knew the Twilight Zone was a dimension not only of sight and sound but of canned laughter?!? The episode "Cavender is Coming" features Jesse White, Carol Burnett, and a laugh track the network thought might help lead to a spinoff series. (It didn't.) Plus: anybody want to fly in an airplane where the whole interior looks like a giant window? 

Dimensions Behind the Twilight Zone: A Backstage Tribute to Television's Groundbreaking Series by Stewart Stanyard

The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration 

Windowless planes: is this the future of flying? (The Telegraph via YouTube)

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Stella the dog lives with a speech-language pathologist and has been using a soundboard to "say" several dozen words, raising hopes that someday the show "Dog With A Blog" may come to life. Plus: Quilty the cat likes to spend his nights freeing the other cats at the animal shelter. 

A speech pathologist taught her dog Stella to 'speak' (CNN)

Sly Escape Artist Shelter Cat 'Quilty' Who Will Not Be Contained Keeps Freeing His Cat Comrades (TIME)

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This is Geography Awareness Week, and on our  fascinating planet Mount Everest is the tallest mountain - but it's not  actually the highest point on earth. That's actually Mount Chimborazo,  in Ecuador. Plus: the community of New Baltimore, NY gets a spooky  purple makeover thanks to Google Maps.

Mount Chimborazo is Actually the Highest Point on Earth (CN Traveler)

The 20 Scariest Google Street View Images (Mashable)

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For Veterans Day, we have the story of Claude and Ruth Hensinger, who used the parachute that saved Claude's life during World War II to help build their lives and their 49 year marriage together. 

The Wedding Dress That Dropped From The Sky (Patch)

Dress, 1-Piece (Smithsonian Museum of American History)

Patti Page, aka the “Singing Rage,” was one of the biggest-selling pop singers of the 1950s. But later, she lived part-time on a farm in New Hampshire where she and her husband sold maple syrup. The bottles didn't just have her name on them; they included her voice! Plus: Skyline Chess turns the buildings in world cities into chess pieces and pits them against each other. 

Patti Page: A Singing Rage, Who Had Her Own Singing Syrup Bottle (NHPR)

Patti Page Singing Maple Syrup Cap (NH Magazine on YouTube)

Beautiful Chess Sets Based on Iconic City Skylines (Laughing Squid)

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This meringue is just about the lightest dessert ever made. Based on the lightest substance in the world, Aerogel, it's about 96 percent air and a serving weighs about a gram. We guarantee you won’t think it's too filling. Plus: the story of a light-emitting fungus gnat in Brazil, which is maybe not as appetizing as the first story.

World’s Lightest Dessert Is 96 Percent Air, Weighs Just One Gram (Oddity Central)

First South American insect that emits blue light is discovered (Eurekalert!)

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Jeremy John Kaplan is the artist behind the Gold Nets Project, which has replaced hundreds of broken or missing nets with shiny golden ones, and encouraged local basketball players to think about stepping up and maintaining the courts too. Plus: the northern Georgia city of Dahlonega says it had a gold rush decades before the '49ers all raced to California. 

An Artist Is Installing Hundreds of Golden Nets on Community Basketball Courts (Hyperallergic)

Dahlonega Gold Museum (Roadside America)

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