A wholphin is a cross between a whale and a dolphin. There is one at Sea Life Park in Hawaii called Kekaimalu.

Harp seal milk is 50% fat (cow’s milk is 4% fat).

Saturn is the only known planet that is less dense than water, meaning that if it could be placed inside an imaginary gigantic bathtub it would float.

The brain performs at least 1 quadrillion operations a second, about a thousand times more than the best supercomputers.

Christian Frederik Carl Georg Valdemar Axel, who was known in his youth as Prince Carl of Denmark, was elected King Haakon VII by the parliament of the newly created Norway on Nov. 18, 1905, after the country broke away from Sweden.

This article appears in November 19 • 2004.

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