According to Oprah Winfrey, we each shed 1.5 million skin cells per hour.

Tom Hanks may have based some of Forrest Gump’s aspects on those of a character played by his brother Jim Hanks in the soft-porn romp, Buford’s Beach Bunnies. Jim’s character, Jeeter Buford, is a naive, wide-eyed wanderer through life.

The name of the planet in the movie Forbidden Planet is Altair IV.

The Bates Casket company churns out a new casket, on average, every 50 seconds.

Rats can chew through glass, metal, and concrete, can fit inside a pipe as small as half an inch, and destroy about 20% of the world’s food crop before it gets to market.

This article appears in April 13 • 2007.

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