The only confirmed jaguarundi sightings in Texas since the last census, conducted nearly 10 years ago, have been roadkill.

Graupel, often mistaken for hail, consists of snowflakes that become rounded pellets rather than flat flakes. Virga is rain that falls from a cloud but evaporates before reaching the ground.

King Robert III of Scotland, a miserable depressive, asked to be buried in a dung hill.

Guffey, Colo., pop. 50, has elected an animal as its mayor for more than a dozen years (currently it’s a dog).

A recent study at the University of California at Berkeley concluded that Contract Bridge enhances the immune system. In particular, playing the game stimulates the thymus gland that produces white blood cells called T cells, or T lymphocytes.

This article appears in February 16 • 2001.

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