Every year, between three and four Australians will die because they fall down the stairs.

Casey Kasem is a committed vegan. He refused to do an ad for Kellogg’s Cornflakes because cereal is eaten with milk.

“Mountain lion,” “cougar,” “puma,” “catamount,” and “panther” all refer to the same New World feline carnivore, known to biologists as Felis concolor.

The official George W. Bush bio at www.whitehouse.gov/president/gwbbio.html mentions the exact percentages by which he was elected and re-elected governor (down to the tenth of a percentage point) but neglects to mention the percentage of the vote he got in the presidential election.

El Cid, Rodrigo Diaz, spent five years in the pay of a Muslim ruler fighting Christians.

This article appears in February 27 • 2004.

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