Scientist Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902) popularized the phrase “all cells come from cells.”

Beatles researcher Martin Lewis has discovered that honey is featured in 14 Fab Four songs, tea is the most-mentioned drink, and that veggie George Harrison makes the most meat references, with lyrics mentioning pepperoni, pigs, chops, bacon, and chicken.

The leaves of the masoesa bush, a member of the ginger family, are great for cleaning wounds caused by vampire bats.

The Ku Klux Klan won the right to join the Missouri’s Adopt-A-Highway cleanup program last November and was assigned a a portion of Interstate 55 near downtown St. Louis. As a result, Gov. Mel Carnahan signed a bill naming the stretch The Rosa Parks Highway.

The rocketship made its first appearance in a 1657 novel by Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac.

This article appears in May 25 • 2001.

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