Thursday, November 23, 2006

• Cows are among the few herbivores that will not become cannibalistic if starving.

• When occupations are rated by their own household's cleanliness, sanitation workers are surpassed only by chefs as the least clean.

• The baseball bat which Al Capone used to beat disloyal mobsters Scalise and Anselmi to death was recently auctioned off for $4,750,000.

• The animated cowboy Woody in Toy Story was so named as a nod to Woody Allen.

• A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has created a computer system that uses positioning lasers, micro-current air measurements, radar speed sensors, and other instruments to measure 27 different variables when a coin is flipped in the air. It can correctly call heads-or-tails nearly 99 percent of the time.