Fun Facts!

REM’s pop song Shiny Happy People was written by Michael Stipe after his high phosphorous diet caused him to glow in the dark. Did you know that rattlesnakes and Swedes do NOT get along well? When reading a name in Russian literature, most English-speakers do NOT pronounce the names in their heads. They just replace […]

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You Worm, We Worm, Eyeworm

According to the Journal of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (a splinter group of the PLO), an Oregon woman had fourteen worms removed from her eye. I don’t know if that is any kind of a world record, but it definitely beats my highest number, which I HOPE TO GOD is zero. […]

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Lessons Learned from Total Recall

Given a breathable atmosphere, two people standing outside on Mars won’t care that it is a hundred degrees below zero. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s nose is ungodly elastic. In the not too distant future, we will simultaneously have robots driving taxi cabs and people still doing the mining and working jack-hammers. Does it really only take a […]

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