Mosquitoes are attracted to stinky shoes.

Researchers at McMaster University have found that women’s brains are more densely packed than men’s in the area responsible for reason, judgment, memory, and some emotion.

Anti-Wahabbis in the Muslim world claim that the movement’s founder, Muhammad ibn ‘Abd alWahhab, was inspired by a British spy named Hempher to start the sect. Some groups also claim the Saudi royal family has Jewish blood.

The female impersonator show at the Queen Mary in Studio City, Calif., is the longest running revue in the Western Hemisphere.

Franklin Roosevelt liked to make martinis.

This article appears in December 14 • 2001.

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