Presidents' Files
Famous for his love of animals, President Theodore Roosevelt's White House menagerie included bears, dogs, snakes, a pony, a blue macaw, a lion, a hyena, a coyote and a zebra.
Quotable
by Tori Amos, singer-songwriter
"I know I'm an acquired taste---I'm anchovies, and not everybody wants those hairy little things."
Body Wisdom
Every hour, more than one billion cells in the body must be replaced.
In Comparison
A manned rocket can reach the moon in less time than it took a stagecoach to travel the lenght of England.
Still on the Books
In Montana, it is illegal for women to go fishing alone on Sundays, and illegal for unmarried women to fish alone at all.
Of Note
The only insect that can turn its head is a praying mantis.
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