💬 Quoted… “Found an iPhone on the side of the road... Still in airplane mode with half a battery and open to a baggage claim for #AlaskaAirlines ASA1282.”

• If it could talk, said iPhone👆, discovered by Sean Bates in a bush on the side of the road in Vancouver, Washington, would have quite a story to tell. As you may have been able to guess by the Alaskan Airlines and airplane mode context clues, it appears to have played the part of an action movie protagonist and fallen 16,000 feet out of the Boeing jet whose fuselage blew off mid-flight – and survived this drop completely intact. There are a few things that could be working in the phone’s favor to make this possible, according to a scientist who was interviewed by USA Today: phone manufacturers have been working to make phones stronger, it encountered air resistance to slow its fall, and it landed on a bush instead of something hard (aim for the bushes!).

🏢 Stat of the Day: Nearly 20% of office space in major US cities wasn’t leased in Q4 of last year, the highest figure since Moody’s Analytics first started tracking such data in 1979.

🤔 Did You Know?... Gasoline is produced differently in the summer and winter, which is why prices at the pump are often cheaper during colder months.

📰 Worth a Read: Steamboat Willie: How Mickey Mouse’s first appearance saved Walt Disney from ruin and changed cinema forever → (BBC Culture)