During World War II, neutral Switzerland shot down both Allied and Axis planes that violated its airspace.

In 1984, Simon Wilde, professor at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Australia, discovered a tiny speck of zircon crystal, which is believed to be the oldest known piece of Earth – about 4.4 billion years old.

The word “shampoo” comes from the Hindi “chmpn,” meaning to massage or knead.

According to one traveler, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, is not the end of the world, but it feels like it can’t be more than a short bus ride away.

South Korean women associate men with Type-B blood to be cads, even though scientists say there is no link between blood type and personality. Type-B women, on the other hand, seem to have escaped the wrath. In 2004, a song from singer Kim Hyun-jung called “Type-B Men” soared to the top of the charts.

This article appears in May 6 • 2005.

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