The average cruise ship dumps about 200,000 gallons of wastewater each day into the sea.

According to author Geneive Abdo’s book, No God but God, Egypt and the Triumph of Islam, 97% of Egyptian girls are circumcised to reduce their sexuality.

“Knowledge” is the term for the training that London cab drivers must undergo.

A mobile phone transmitting at 0.25 watts can raise the temperature of nearby brain cells by 0.1 degree C — only 1é10 of normal temperature fluctuations.

Dolphins get ulcers from the same bacteria that cause them in humans.

This article appears in November 17 • 2000.

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