Aibohphobia is the fear of palindromes.

According to one amateur scientist, adenosine triphosphate is the only provider of energy that all known life uses to ultimately transfer energy. You cycle about 400 pounds of it a day, one molecule at a time.

Among the items prohibited on flights by the Department of Homeland Security are nunchakus and tear gas. As if they were ever permitted …

The term “jury-rigged” is actually a corruption of “jerry-rigged” (or its close relative “jerry-built”), which refers to something patched together to get past an immediate need, but clumsy or shoddy in nature.

The LifeGem company of Hove, Sussex UK, will turn cremated human remains into a diamond for £11,000.

This article appears in February 20 • 2004.

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