The tales include a pilot and his dog surviving a plane crash off the California coast and swimming to safety, Anouk Gournier setting a new rope climbing record at the Eiffel Tower, the birth of the 250th California Condor chick at the San Diego Zoo signaling a conservation success, a horse that wandered into an Australian train station during heavy rain and was safely returned to its owner, and the discovery of the largest fossilized human turd from a 9th-century Viking, highlighting an unusual piece of history now displayed at the Jorvik Viking Center in York, England.