Desmond Tutu likes to watch sports.

According to The Second Book of General Ignorance, the average cumulus cloud weighs the equivalent of about 100 elephants. A big storm cloud weights the equivalent of about 200,000 elephants.

Joe Pepitone was the first Major League Baseball player to use a hair dryer in the locker room.

TV husband and wife Meredith Baxter and Michael Gross on Family Ties share the same birthday: June 21, 1947.

Violent crime and murder have been declining steadily for two decades. According to Amherst College economist Jessica Wolpaw Reyes, this is because lead is disappearing from gasoline and other sources and therefore from people’s blood streams.

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