The humuhumunukunukuapua’a, also called a triggerfish, was recently dethroned as the official state fish of Hawaii.

The phrase “going postal” is undeserved. There has been less than one shooting fatality per year at Postal Service facilities over the last 20 years. As the USPS has more than 700,000 employees, this is a lower rate than the average workplace.

M&Ms are the combined initials of founder Forrest E. Mars and former associate Bruce Murrie.

The average American uses 30.5 lbs. of soap and detergents per year.

Scientists claim to have cleared the Donner Party of cannibalism. Using CSI methods, they examined bone remains and found that the Donner camp was at a different site from where cannibalism demonstrably occurred, and there’s no evidence of cannibalism at the Donner site.

This article appears in March 31 • 2006.

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