Women who have sex with men who recently consumed the ciguatera toxin (found in some fish in the South Pacific, Caribbean, and Indian Ocean) may themselves suffer from urinary problems and pelvic discomfort.
In Walt Disney’s Snow White, her first word upon wakening from her sleeping death is “goodbye.”
University of Wisconsin researchers have developed a mechanical leech.
Billy Ray Cyrus was a session guitarist on one of Metallica’s albums.
Some claim the “brass monkey” was a storage rack for stacking cannon balls on a ship. In actuality, the balls were kept on the gun or spar decks in shot racks, which consisted of longitudinal wooden planks with holes bored into them.
This article appears in March 22 • 2002.