Fred and Wilma Flintstone have done at least one beer commercial.
According to a recent study, a majority of executives who accepted
counter-offers were either fired or quit within one year of accepting their new
positions.
The first tennis balls were stuffed with human hair.
“Gweilo,” a term meaning “foreign devil,” was coined
by the Chinese when they first saw European colonists. The literal translation is
“ghost chap.” A slightly more accurate spelling is “gwai lo.”
People have been domesticating pigs for at least 10,000 years.
This article appears in August 1 • 1997 and August 1 • 1997 (Cover).