The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 features a W16 engine – 16 cylinders in four banks of four cylinders. It has an electronically limited top speed of 400 kilometers per hour (249 mph). It’s expected that its tires will wear out within 18 minutes at top speed, but that doesn’t matter since its fuel tank will be empty after 12 minutes and 46 seconds.

Cameron Diaz thinks sexy firemen are sexier than sexy movie stars.

The late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall helped draft Kenya’s Bill of Rights.
In 1960, Kenyan independence leaders Tom Mboya and Jomo Kenyatta asked him to help write their Constitution; Marshall threw himself into their cause so they could prove to the world that they would treat minority races (whites and Asians) fairly once Africans took power.

A python will extrude its windpipe while swallowing a deer to avoid suffocation.

This article appears in June 20 • 2008.

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