The so called Bridge of Sighs (Ponte dei Sospiri) in Venice connects the New Prison (Prigioni Nuove) to the interrogation rooms in the Doge's Palace.
It's called like this from the suggestion that prisoners would sigh at their final view of beautiful Venice through the window before being taken down to their cells.
The Falkland Islands used to have a native wolf called the warrah that was so friendly and unafraid of humans it would literally swim out to greet boats.
Settlers wiped it out in the 1800s because it was too friendly to run away. It was the first canid to go extinct in recorded history.
π¨: A 9,000-year-old skeleton in Somerset was genetically matched to a local man named Adrian Targett. Their mitochondrial DNA reveals an unbroken maternal lineage spanning 300 generations β the longest verified lineage in history.