Crack!

I don’t know what happened, Dad: Corning’s lightweight but tough Gorilla Glass, used to protect the screens of smartphones, is moving into the auto world. Car makers are using a version for windshields to shave vehicle weight and improve fuel economy.

There are still a few kinks to work out. Engineers are trying to figure out why the windshields crack any time a teenager comes near.

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Is all in day’s work: Russia’s defense ministry announced that a cruise missile went astray during a test and landed near a village without inflicting casualties.

Fortunately, defense ministry officials said, Russian President Vladimir Putin was able to leap aboard the errant missile — bare-chested, of course — and steer it away from any populated areas before jumping off and into the saddle of a waiting horse.

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Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1773, American colonists boarded a British ship and dumped its cargo of tea to protest taxes.

Lucky for us it was tea. All of U.S. history might have changed if the ship were carrying coffee.

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