Overlooked News Stories That Deserve Some Attention
![Overlooked News Stories That Deserve Some Attention](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/4/5/738345_320x180.jpg?v=3)
It seems like the world is in a perpetual state of crisis, and basically everything is changing. It's easy to think that the news is all doom and gloom, just war and chaos and nonsense. And sure, those things are happening. But that doesn't mean everything else has stopped. A ton of important or funny developments have unrolled, we promise, they've just gotten buried. Look, we totally understand how easy it is to overlook things. There are video games to be played, dinner to be cooked, and rugs to be vacuumed. You can't keep up with everything all the time. That's why we're here to highlight some wild stuff.
Did you know France just elected its first transgender mayor? We bet you didn't! Did you know that elephants are really easy to get drunk, and they love getting drunk? We bet you didn't! All of that, plus 10 fascinating factoids here:
![FRANCE ELECTED ITS FIRST TRANS MAYOR. MAIRIE Marie Cau became the mayor of the northern village Tilloy-lez-Marchiennes after a near-unanimous votE by](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/8/8/738488.jpg?v=2)
![DOG NOSES ARE BECOMING AN IMPORTANT ARCHEOLOGICAL TOOL. More and more archeologists are starting to use dogs trained to detect human remains to find a](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/0/9/738309.jpg?v=2)
![WE'VE FIGURED OUT WHY GLASS FROGS HAVE TRANSLUCENT SKIN. Researchers thought it probably wasn't for camouflage, since you can see organs through it wh](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/1/0/738310.jpg?v=2)
![A $1 BILLION SOLAR PROJECT, THE LARGEST IN THE U.S., GOT GOVERNMENT APPROVAL. The Gemini solar and battery storage project, in Nevada, will generate e](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/0/4/738304.jpg?v=2)
![ELEPHANTS ARE EASY TO GET DRUNK, WE'VE CONFIRMED. For centuries, there have been reports of elephants getting drunk (with and without human interventi](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/0/7/738307.jpg?v=2)
![COSTA RICA NOW RECOGNIZES SAME-SEX MARRIAGES. To celebrate, a bunch of same-Sex couples got married as soon as the law (the first of its kind in Centr](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/0/8/738308.jpg?v=2)
![YOU CAN NOW FLY JETS NO MATTER HOW TALL YOU ARE. 0002 437 AN 3IS Until now, USAF pilots had to be 5'4 to 6'5 tall. People outside that range had to](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/0/6/738306.jpg?v=2)
![NORTH KOREA HAD TO SAY KIM IL SUNG COULDN'T TELEPORT. According to myth, Kim U Sung (North Korea's founder and Kim Jong Un's grandpa) used chukjibop,](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/0/5/738305.jpg?v=2)
![FRANCE IS CRACKING DOWN HARD ON DANGEROUS SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT. Under a new law, social media companies (and other websites) will have to remove conte](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/0/3/738303.jpg?v=2)
![A VIRGIN ORBIT ROCKET LAUNCH FAILED. It launched over the Pacific, but failed soon because of an anomaly, the company said. Virgin Orbit is Richard](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/0/0/738300.jpg?v=2)
![CRAYOLA IS MAKING SURE ALL KIDS CAN DRAW THEMSELVES. SWORD GULUO (Crayolo. Crayola (Crayoln Crayola (Crayole (Crayole: ORDAD) lofe Crayoln yiokdD) Cra](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/0/1/738301.jpg?v=2)
![FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 30 YEARS, A PYGMY HIPPO WAS BORN IN THE SAN DIEGO Zoo. This is big because they're an endangered species, with only 500 of them](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/9/9/738299.jpg?v=2)