· The National Security Agency wiretapping network collects three million faxes, cell phone conversations and Internet hits each minute.

· Journalist Hunter S. Thompson once made a Rolling Stone writer mow his lawn before he would grant him an interview.

· Glossititis is an acute inflammation of the tongue.

· Georgia is home to the U.S. National Tick Collection ÷ the largest collection of dead ticks in the world.

· Filene's Basement, the famous department store, was Boston's second-most visited site in 2001, with over 20,000 visitors per day.

· George Washington's last real tooth and four sets of his dentures are on display at a Baltimore museum of dentistry.

· Basketball players from Rutgers University once sued their coaches for making them do wind sprints in the nude.

· Zinc replaced copper as the primary metal in pennies in 1982.

· Golfer Curtis Strange once kicked his golf bag so hard that his caddy, who was carrying it, had to have his vertebrae fused.

· Jerry Seinfeld earned $267 million in 1998, his last season on the air.

· Chickens have more chromosomes than cats and camels.

· A yottabyte is the largest data storage unit.

· Philadelphia ran a public service campaign in 2000 to curb excessive booing at their sporting events.

· is one computer for every 500 residents in India.

· Ralph Engelstad, a casino owner in Las Vegas, was fined $1.5 million in 1998 by the Nevada gaming board for holding birthday parties for Adolf Hitler.

· In 1994, four of every 10 tornado victims lived in trailers.

· Fifty-six percent of paperback books sold in the U.S. in 2001 were romance novels.