Joseph Black (1728-1799) discovered carbon dioxide.

During summer, a cubic mile of air over the Earth’s temperate regions contains up to 25 million assorted insects, spiders, and other animals suspended or drifting in the winds.

The fortune cookie, an American invention, didn’t make it to Asia until 1989.

A rancher’s rule of thumb: It takes about three gallons of diesel and two tires to burn a deer carcass, and then when you’re done you put about three or four gallons of Clorox on it and the ground around it.

Excessive sweating is known as hyperhidrosis.

This article appears in 2001.

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