Illegal cricket fights are all the rage in Hong Kong. Bug gambling carries a maximum penalty of $1,280 and three months’ imprisonment.

According to Millisecond Publishing, creators of Family Forest genealogy software, George W. Bush and John Kerry are ninth cousins, twice removed. Kerry is a ninth cousin, once removed of Hugh Hefner and Marilyn Monroe, while Bush is a ninth cousin, twice removed of the two celebrities.

Word has it that the city of Notrees, Texas, 21 miles northwest of Odessa, actually had one native tree before construction of a large Shell gas plant forced its removal.

The admiral who assembled the fleet from which Japanese planes bombarded American ships at Pearl Harbor was educated at Harvard.

www.nice-tits.org is run by a British ornithological society.

This article appears in September 3 • 2004.

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