In Africa, hippopotamuses kill more people than any other animal.

YAVIS is a term psychotherapists use to describe the profession’s favored type of patient because they are the most likely to benefit from therapy. The letters stand for “Young, Attractive, Verbal, Intelligent, and Successful.”

Legend has it that poor settlers in South Carolina by the shore sucked minerals out of the sand to stay alive, hence the term “sand lapper.” Poor mountain folks who sucked minerals out of the clay were called “clay eaters.”

New Zealand has the highest butter consumption per capita at 26 pounds per year (in the U.S. it’s 4.6 pounds/year).

For some reason, someone registered the domain for Ebenezerrhoar.com, named after Ebenezer R. Hoar, the first attorney general who served under Ulysses S. Grant.

This article appears in August 31 • 2001.

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