1. Rudyard Kipling had written to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle urging him to write a story about a "murder by suggestion". Though Doyle never visited to investigate, he mentioned it to Agatha Christie and the detective story The Mysterious Affair at Styles was the result.
2. Airbus has come up with the first 3D printed aircraft named THOR (Test of High-tech Objectives in Reality).
3. The Ussuri beach in Vladivostok was earlier dumped with broken glass but is now a tourist spot due to the glass pieces being smoothed by waves into smooth glass pebbles over the years.