The whale shark, the world’s biggest shark, is a filter feeder.
Mahouts are elephant “drivers,” and there are three kinds based on the method of elephant training: Reghawaan, who use love to control their elephants, Yuktimaan, who use ingenuity to outsmart them, and Balwaan, who control elephants with strength and cruelty.
By law, any woman wanting to wear pants in Paris “must present herself to Paris’ main police station to obtain authorization.” A more recent amendment to the law permits trousers “as long as the woman is holding the reins of a horse.” The law has been on the books since 1800.
Soul singers James Brown and Joe Tex did not like each other.
In 1894, an Austrian engineer named Hans Hörbiger predicted there was water on the moon.
This article appears in November 27 • 2009.