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Fast facts: The woolly mammoth, extinct since the Ice Age, had tusks almost 16 feet high. In Pakistan, goats are often sacrificed to improve the performance of the stock market. The soft mass of the adult brain is motionless. Though it consumes up to 25 percent of the bloodâs oxygen supply, it does not grow, divide or contract. The thumb is such a major player in the human body that it has a special section, separate from the area that controls the fingers, reserved for it in the brain. A birdâs eye takes up about 50 percent of its head. Human eyes take up about 5 percent of the human head. To be comparable to a birdâs eyes, human eyes would have to be the size of baseballs. The white part of the fingernail is called the lunula.

 

On this date: In 1564, William Shakespeare was baptized. In 1654, Jews were expelled from Brazil. In 1887, Huntsville Electric Co. was established to sell electricity. In 1912, Hugh Bradley of the Boston Red Sox hit the first home run at Fenway Park. In 1954, a nationwide test of Jonas Salkâs anti-polio vaccine began. In 1968, students seized the administration building at Ohio State. In 1992, the TV show ãWhoâs The Bossä played its last episode after eight years of airtime.

 

Quotable... ãIt was a giant boom ÷ a real giant boom. It sounded like an airplane crashing.ä ÷New York resident Bill Beek, who lives a half-block away from the site where a building exploded yesterday.