The level of bacteria on your pillowcase is about the same as on your toilet seat.
If you could make a bowling ball the size of Earth, the finger holes would be about 1,000 kilometers across, and a few thousand kilometers deep. But the holes would be far too big to hold themselves open against gravity, and would undergo a slow-motion collapse in about half an hour.
Lincoln has been part of Ford Motor Company since 1922 when it was purchased out of bankruptcy. Lincoln was founded by Henry Leland in 1917. Earlier, Leland had taken over Henry Ford’s early failed car company start-up and turned it into Cadillac.
A Russian defense minister once told Sir Paul McCartney that he and others learned English from Beatles songs – in particular, “Hello Goodbye.”
Percentage change in the likelihood a child will eat an apple from the school cafeteria if the apple has an Elmo sticker on it: +68.
This article appears in May 31 • 2013.