The original Captain Kangaroo theme song was an instrumental called “Puffin’ Billy.” It was written by Edward G. White and referred to a British steam locomotive.

A study from Ohio State University suggests that THC may help fight Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of age-related memory loss. A UCLA study suggests that red wine also wards off Alzheimer’s.

A household lightbulb emits about 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 photons of light per second.

Studies suggest that women prefer the scent of males whose major histocompatibility complex genes differ from their own.

The kilt was invented by an Englishman, Thomas Rawlinson, who came to Scotland in the 1720s to manage an ironworks in the Highlands and found it handy and convenient for his workmen.

This article appears in December 26 • 2008.

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