Imagine if there was someone out there old enough to have lived through all the biggest events of the 19th and 20th centuries. Someone who’d not only been around at the advent of spaceflight, but of powered flight itself! Well, such a being does indeed walk this Earth, but he’s not a human. He’s a tortoise named Jonathan, and he just celebrated his 190th birthday with one “shell” of a party.
Although countless people regularly use public transport in Istanbul, Turkey, one passenger in particular stood out from the rest. His name is Boji, and he was a stray dog. No one knows where the canine came from or when he started riding trains and buses. For some, it felt as if he’d always been there. But a few answers began to emerge after a tracker was placed on the pooch.