Hello, you savvy savant!

Recently, you might have seen a certain meme going around about the "group chat" when you invite them to something. You might not know that it's taken from Youtuber Tom Scott, who has some incredibly interesting videos on Things You Might Not Have Known.

We share one of them in today's weekend reads, along with Dave Trott's defence of humour, F. Scott Fitzgerald's made up words, and more!

Wishing you the very best weekend of reading.

Big love,
Chris & the 42courses team

• Why being irrational is sometimes the best thing to do: Who else, but the Wikiman himself, Rory Sutherlands treats us to a Youtube short on the brilliance of hares.
   
• Everyone likes a laugh: The wonderfully witty Dave Trott shows us his funny side and why humour can take your audience where nagging and "brand purpose" never could.
   
• The very different way to board a plane: Calling all aircraft geeks, here's a video from Tom Scott on an innovative solution to boarding plans that are far away from the airport.
   
• Would you be happy to queue? Coca-Cola has developed an experiential campaign using WPPs newest AI tool, Open X, to make waiting less awful. 
   
• We should have cocktailed: Remember when F. Scott Fitzgerald tried to turn the word "cocktail" into a verb? No? Well here's his whole list of conjugations for it.

• 1822 - French scholar Jean-François Champollion announces he has deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics using the Rosetta Stone. 🔍
   
• 1825 - George Stephenson's "Locomotion No. 1" becomes the first steam locomotive to carry passengers on a public rail line, the Stockton and Darlington Railway in England. 🚂
   
• 1905 - The physics journal Annalen der Physik publishes Albert Einstein's paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", introducing the equation E=mc². 📐
   
• 1937 - The Balinese Tiger is declared extinct. 🐅
   
• 1954 - "The Tonight Show" premieres on NBC, hosted by Steve Allen. 📺
   
• 1960 - Europe's first "moving pavement" (travelator) opens at Bank station on the London Underground. 🚶‍♂️
   
• 2012 - The Mars Curiosity rover discovers evidence of a fast-moving streambed on Mars. 🚀
   
• 2015 - A "Supermoon" coincides with a lunar eclipse, creating a "Blood Moon" over much of the earth. 🌕
   
• 2023 - Scientists at CERN announce a scientific milestone, proving that antimatter falls down and not up, by dropping a gas of antihydrogen from a 3-metre-tall vertical shaft. 🌌