A nudge is as good as a wink to a blind bat.

If you are highly allergic to poison ivy, you should also avoid ginkgo nuts, lacquered boxes, and cashew shells, because they contain the substance in poison ivy that causes rashes.

Allen Ginsberg slept with someone who’d slept with Walt Whitman.

On average, it costs six times as much to kill one person as it costs to incarcerate that person for life ($3.2 million versus $600,000 in Florida). Don’t believe it? Ask your local prosecutor.

Martha Stewart laundry bags are preferred by hunters transporting escaped Burmese pythons in the Florida Everglades.

This article appears in July 9 • 2004.

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