The favorite food of Shaggy (of Scooby Doo fame) is chocolate-covered corn on the cob.

Oxford University experimental psychology researchers have concluded that insomniacs who count sheep are likely to stay awake for longer than those who do nothing at all.

The largest prime number discovered to date is -2 to the 13,466,917th power minus 1; it has 4,053,946 digits. The discovery is accredited to Michael Cameron through the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (G.I.M.P.S.) project.

Ranchers have discovered that llamas bond with sheep, and “guard llamas” stay on the job longer than guard dogs.

Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee’s character on Twin Peaks) died on February 24, 1989.

This article appears in February 22 • 2002.

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