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Fast facts: The short-term memory capacity for most people is between five and nine items or digits. This is one reason that phone numbers were kept to seven digits (not including area code). Synesthesia is a rare condition in which the senses are combined. Synesthetes see words, taste colors and shapes and feel flavors. The average adult has between 40 billion and 50 billion fat cells. The soft mass of the adult brain is motionless. Though it consumes up to 25 percent of the blood's oxygen supply, it does not grow, divide or contract. The strongest bone in the body, the thigh bone, is hollow. Ounce for ounce, it has a greater pressure tolerance and bearing strength than a rod of equivalent size in cast steel. "Mageiricophobia" is the intense fear of having to cook.

 

On this date: In 1802, John Beckley of Virginia was appointed the first librarian of Congress. In 1896, Emile Grubbe became the first doctor to use radiation treatment for breast cancer. In 1919, the U.S. Secretary of State proclaimed the 18th Amendment (prohibition) law. In 1959, Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" was released. In 1979, President Jimmy Carter commuted Patricia Hearst's seven-year jail sentence to two years. In 1989, Cleveland Cavaliers center Chris Dudley missed five free throws during one foul attempt. In 1996, the 6,138th performance of "Cats" was held in London, surpassing the record of Broadway's longest-running musical, "A Chorus Line."

 

Quotable... "It can either be that there is something wrong with her or that she is a really bad person. I don't know what the problem is." -an unidentified juror regarding Andrea Yates, a woman on trial for the murder of her own five children in a bathtub.