Next year, reports Jane’s Defense Industry, the United States will spend as much on defense as the rest of the world combined.

The largest pair of trousers Napoleon Bonaparte wore had a waist measurement of 110 centimeters (43.31 inches); those he wore just before his death measured 98 centimeters (38.58 inches).

One centimeter of hair holds your personal record of the past month – what you ate, drank, and the environments you were in.

Scholars at Oxford University, the University of Birmingham, McGill University, and the University of Toronto believe the Number of the Beast in the Book of Revelations is not 666 but 616. The number was found on Greek papyri discovered in a dump outside Oxyrhynchus in Egypt.

The median lifespan of an American automobile is 17 years.

This article appears in June 10 • 2005.

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