The part of hair that’s visible to us is made up of dead cells.

Richard Nixon had at least one documented Oval Office meeting with psychic Jeanne Dixon – a 36-minute taped session on May 4, 1971. Nixon apparently took her predictions concerning terrorism seriously enough to act on them.

There are eight different scales used to measure temperature: Celsius (Centigrade), Fahrenheit, Rankine, Reaumur, Newton, Rømer, Kelvin, and Deslisle.

Joshua Kinberg invented the first wireless, bike-mounted dot-matrix printer.

If you were in Spain trying to speak like a wiseguy, you might say, “Cuando las ranas crien pelos” (when frogs grow hair). A close English equivalent is “When pigs fly.”

This article appears in May 13 • 2005.

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