The Chinese recently took homosexuality off their list of official psychological disorders.

A mosquito has 47 teeth.

Yvonne Craig, TV’s Batgirl, has had a Coca-Cola for breakfast every morning since she was 16.

When Leo Fender asked Dick Dale to demonstrate his newly created Fender Stratocaster, he laughed uncontrollably when Dale played it upside down and backwards.

The word “billion” has several meanings. The cardinal number equal to 10 to the ninth power; the cardinal number equal to 10 to the 12th power (chiefly British); and an indefinitely large number. Source: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition.

This article appears in November 7 • 2003.

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