Marcos Pontes, Brazil’s first astronaut, is scheduled to arrive at the International Space Station in April 2006.

Rule 19 of the American Bowling Congress prohibits cleaning your bowling ball with Cutex Nail Polish Remover prior to competition bowling.

Miguel Serrano, a Chilean diplomat and author, believed that Adolf Hitler was in Shambhala, an underground center in Antarctica, where he was in contact with space aliens and from where he would someday emerge with a fleet of UFOs to establish a Fourth Reich.

Queen Nefertiti of Egypt, known as one of history’s most beautiful women, painted her fingernails and toenails a rich, ruby red. Cleopatra, on the other hand, painted her nails a rusty shade of red.

In the Hindu faith, the Om symbol is written on a baby’s tongue at birth.

This article appears in January 20 • 2006.

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