A New Jersey company called Shark Defense has come up with a shark repellent containing chemicals found in dead sharks.

The all-time highest scoring individual in college basketball was Clarence “Bevo” Francis, of Rio Grande Community College in Ohio, who had a 113-point game on Feb. 2, 1954. He scored 116 points in a prior game, but it didn’t count for the record books because it was against a junior college.

Every day in the United States, slot machines take in, on average, more than $1 billion.

In February 1944, Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty showed that DNA possessed genetic information. Although their research broke the seal on modern biology, they failed to win a Nobel prize.

James Murray of the University of Washington in Seattle has devised an algebraic formula that forecasts whether or not a couple’s marriage will succeed.

This article appears in October 22 • 2004.

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