If you move your arms around like an ape, then you’ll be brachiating.

Cindy Williams, Teri Garr, Jamie Farr, Rob Reiner, Richard Dreyfus, Chuck Norris, Kurt Russell, and Mark Hamill all have at least one thing in common — they made guest appearances on the TV show Room 222.

During WWII, the 82nd Chemical Mortar Battalion was the first to use 4.2-inch mortars in the Pacific.

Robin Southgate, a student of Industrial Design at Brunel University, is developing an intelligent toaster that can “print” information onto a slice of bread. His work includes an interface that collects info from the Internet.

There are naturally growing cottonwood trees on the tops of abandoned buildings in Chicago.

This article appears in June 8 • 2001.

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