Archaeologists have never found horned Viking helmets. Poets and artists gave the Vikings their helmets in the late 1800s.

John Gilbert and Greta Garbo are credited with the first onscreen, openmouthed kiss. The film was Flesh and the Devil (1926). The pair was having an offscreen affair at the time. The Hays Code, a set of U.S. movie industry moral censorship guidelines, was passed in 1930.

King Henry VIII owned 25 crumhorns.

According to a University of New Mexico study, women who are pole dancers and ovulating made an average of $30 per hour more than pole dancers who are menstruating, and $15 per hour more than women elsewhere in their cycles.

Tasmanian devils are being devastated by devil facial tumor disease, an aggressive nonviral transmissible parasitic cancer.

This article appears in June 1 • 2012.

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