Oklahoma is now the most earthquake prone state in the U.S.

In the Northeast, 12% of Americans said they didn’t know how to ride a bike, compared to just 3% in the Midwest.

In the U.S. Civil War, 90,000 Kentuckians fought for the North and 35,000 fought for the South. Nevertheless, according to historian Thomas Clark, the state now has 72 Confederate monuments and only two Union ones.

Females of the American cockroach (Periplaneta americana) lay their eggs in a hardened, purse-shaped egg case called an ootheca.

1973 saw the first U.S. instances of prime-time nudity for women and men. The first instance of female nudity was in Steambath, a made-for-TV movie starring Bill Bixby and Jose Perez as God, which included a scene of Valerie Perrine taking a shower. The first instance of male nudity was in season 2, episode 10 of M*A*S*H when actor Gary Burghoff displayed a bare butt.

This article appears in July 31 • 2015.

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