For a relatively slow news week, it’s been fascinating to see networks juggle the  dominant stories of the weekend: the royal wedding and the Texas high school shooting.

Headlines crawl and split screens shrug as the networks seem to juggle their own conscious. CNN appears particularly torn. It had a thoughtful piece on a public beleaguered by grim news — followed by live reports and video feeds from across the pond. Did we just witness a massive rationalization?

Let’s stick with a few non-agenda facts:

• Lin Ching Lan is a deaf Taiwanese professional dancer and choreographer who feels the vibrations of music through wooden floors.
• King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia was shocked when Queen Elizabeth II drove him around her estate, since women couldn’t drive in his country.
• Catholics in Nicaragua, who observe Lent by abstaining from meat, make meals of armadillo or iguana instead. 
• Self-driving cars play Grand Theft Auto to learn how to drive better.
• The record for the most Wimbledon titles is held by Professor Bernard Neal: he was croquet champion 38 times.
• A cat has been the mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska for 15 years.
  
• More than four tons of old U.S. paper money is mulched into compost every day.