100 Facts About Pandas

Think you know pandas? Well, think again. A new book from Square Peg publishers reveals a raft of unexpected facts about the lovable black-and white bears...

For example, did you know that if a panda gets struck by lightning, its black hair turns white and its white hair black?

Another fact revealed by the book is that at the height of the cold war, American Special Forces deployed six robot pandas equipped with advanced surveillance equipment into the forest of eastern China to spy on rural military bases.

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Sad Panda: The Story of an Obsession

New York Magazine's story about a sad panda is kind of touching.

He was committed, at all times, to being the saddest panda there was. Briefly, we wondered whether he was affiliated with Falun Gong, which seem to us to be the most depressive protesters in New York.