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Fast facts: About 24 newborn opossums can fit in a teaspoon. They weigh about .07 of an ounce at birth. An elementary rule of mushroom collecting is never to place edible and poisonous specimens together. The slightest touch of a poisonous fungus may contaminate the edible mushroom. After boxer Mike Tyson's infamous 1997 ear-biting attack on Evander Holyfield, the Hollywood Wax Museum moved Tyson's figure to the Chamber of Horrors. A jynx is a woodpecker, also known as the wryneck because of its peculiar habit of twisting its neck. The whistling swan has more than 25,000 feathers on its body.

 

On this date: In 1701, the inventor of the Celsius temperature scale and the Celsius thermometer, Anders Celsius, was born in Sweden. He became professor of astronomy at the University of Uppsala in 1730. In 1779, the College of Pennsylvania became the University of Pennsylvania, making it America's first legally recognized university. In 1889, Curtis P. Brady was issued the first permit to drive an automobile through New York City's Central Park. To get such a privilege, Brady had to pledge to New York's police that he would not scare the horses in the park. In 1907, Aviator Santos Dumont set the first airborn speed record by traveling 220 meters in 21 seconds. He wore the first wristwatch in history, made especially for him for this event by his friend, Louis Cartier. The wristwatch rose in popularity among French soldiers during World War I. In 1910, Penn Station opened to traffic. In the early 1900s, the 28-acre train and transportation facility was the world's largest railway station. Today, Penn Station is still the busiest Amtrak rail station in the United States

 

Quotable... "I think if we had a whole lifetime to say thank you, we wouldn't do it right." - Heather Mercer, one of two American aid workers held captive for three months by Afghanistan's Taliban, on support she's received worldwide.