If a person is pursued by a crocodile, he should run in a zigzag motion, for the crocodile has trouble changing direction suddenly.

The FBI under J. Edgar Hoover subjected at least 12 Supreme Court justices to secret, warrantless wiretaps from 1945 to 1974. During this period of time, the Supreme Court was ruling on cases concerning the legality of the FBI’s use of secret eavesdropping devices.

Heinrich Himmler, head of the Nazi SS, consulted the Hindu “Bhagavad Gita” for guidance.

Minute amounts of liquor will drive scorpions to madness and cause them to sting themselves to death.

It seems that another oddly serendipitous relationship among the sun, Earth, and moon is that their respective diameters and distances from Earth are perfectly matched so that during a solar eclipse the moon exactly overlaps the sun.

This article appears in March 26 • 2004.

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