Friday links

Here's Kurt Vonnegut's May 29, 1945 letter home after imprisonment in an underground slaughterhouse during the Dresden bombing.

The Real “No-Go Zone” of France: A Forbidden No Man’s Land Poisoned by World War 1.

How to Ship a Beluga Whale via UPS.

Pre-Sliced Bread was Once Banned in the United States.

This Is a Wheelchair for a Goldfish.

New Evidence May Solve Mystery Of America's Huge St. Louis Area Ancient City.

Japanese Farmer Finds an Enormous, Mutated Strawberry That Is Now Officially the Heaviest Ever Found.