And That's a Fact!

• Like ants, cats are able to carry loads equivalent to forty times their own mass, but they do so only under duress.

• Were it not for mountains, rivers, and paved roads, a single kudzu plant would grow to cover the entire land mass of North America in a year.

• WHO WEARS SHORT SHORTS? Dr. Benjamin Nair invented the first depilatory cream in 1972. He also invented the auto-return tape deck and the broiler.

• PLEASE RECYCLE: You should never recharge a cellular mobile telephone until the battery is completely drained. “Overcharging” builds up over time and can lead to poor performance, dropped calls, and even danger.

• Orson Welles, director of Citizen Kane, The Third Man and Rosebud, delivered the famous War of the Worlds radio broadcast in 1939 from his book of the same name. He went on to write 1984 and Animal Farm.

• LIKE SMOKE SIGNALS: During the Cold War, written communications to Allied spies behind the Iron Curtain in Poland, Russia, and North Korea were encoded in a pictorial font based on the Navajo language. Today that font is found on all Windows computers—it’s called Wingdings!

• Lingerie is French for loiterer, which has the same Latin root as the word prostitute.

• ADULT SITUATIONS: Everyone knows you can’t show full frontal nudity on broadcast television. You can, however, show the side of a woman’s breast as long as the nipple is not visible. Similarly, you can show the side of a man’s penis as long as the corona is hidden or blurred.

• Denver is the highest city in the world based on population.