The 'art' cost $21 million to create, and used 5,290 tons of steel, about two-thirds the amount used to make Paris' Eiffel Tower. It also used 1 million square feet of vinyl. The materials will be recycled.

The "Gates" close on Monday, February 28th.

Crocodile Hunter is scared of parrots, because they always bite him and have "nearly torn his nose off", while he says he's been "catching crocodiles since I was nine".

It's also the best-selling pickup truck for 28 consecutive years. Get one fully loaded for only $39,995 MSRP!

When apple juice is left to ferment in a barrel for a few weeks, you get a hard cider, about half the strength of wine.

Better yet, the cider could be distilled into brandy or frozen into applejack (about 66 proof -- what a name for a kids' cereal, huh?). In rural areas, cider took the place not only of wine and beer but also of coffee, juice, even water. Now that's what makes a good folk hero!

In November 2004, Blue Gene posted a new record 70.72 Teraflops, or trillions of floating point calculations per second.

Who needs that many calculations? IBM's primary partner, the National Nuclear Security Agency, who's getting a 360 Teraflop version soon.

And an impotent form of the HIV virus just might be able to combat any type of cancer. With it's outer coat removed and replaced with one that hunts down P-glycoproteins instead of T-cells, it becomes an "effective carrier for gene therapy".

Check out Whiplash the Cowboy Monkey and his first commercial.

And then there is always the skateboarding dog. Animals rock.

"Googol" is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by a hundred zero's. The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, "Mathematics and the Imagination" by Kasner and James Newman. Google's play on the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the web

But it can't hurt you because it is only 2 milliamps (i.e. about 12 million billion electrons that fly over to your finger in a flash) compared to 500mA that a 60W bulb uses.

Sick of getting shocked? Here's how to avoid it.

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Of the 832 pages, 648 were filled with ads! (at a cost of almost $100,000 for each full-color ad).

All of this to reach a paid circulation of 1.3 million!

On July 14, 1944, Irene Morgan boarded a bus from Gloucester, Virginia, to Baltimore and was passing through Richmond when she was told she was defying Virginia's 1930 law segregating seating by rows. She refused to move and was ejected. A state court rejected her argument, but in 1946 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7–1 that Virginia had no right to impose segregation beyond its borders.

It took Rosa Parks's similar refusal in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1955 to extend the same principle to bus travel within a state.

Evidently, humans want to keep track of more than 1,000,000,000,000 items, (the number allowed by the 12 digits of the UPC code today), so the European Article Numbering association (EAN) has come up with a 14 digit solution that allows for the unique identification of 100 trillion different items, (plus a check digit to make sure it read the number right)

Reminds me of the April fact that we're also running out of IP addresses for computers.

It's not because some grow tails and some don't. Most breeds got their start in docking of tails to avoid a tax that was charged on "luxury" dogs - aka pets. Since working dogs weren't taxed and typically had their tails docked, breeders began docking tails to avoid paying the tax.

Aluminum is everywhere -- many gemstones, for example ruby and sapphire, are mainly crystalline aluminum oxide (Al₂O₃). In addition, many of the world's top performance vehicles, like the Ferrari 360 Modena and the Audi A8, are 100% aluminum, since it's lighter than steel but at least twice as strong.

Combined paid attendance over the last 10 seasons for Carolina-Duke games: 445,113.

So a videogame beat out every one of the Top 100 Grossing Films of all time (including Titanic, ET, Forrest Gump, etc. in first day sales).

Caffeine is an alkaloid that occurs naturally in the leaves, seeds, and fruit of tea, coffee, cacao, and kola trees, and has been prescribed for human use as far back as the 6th century B.C. when the spiritual leader Lao-tzu is said to have recommended tea as an elixir for deciples of his new religion, Taoism.

The name "Super Bowl" was inspired by the daughter of Lamar Hunt, Kansas City Chiefs owner and Texas Financier, while she was playing with a small, bouncy rubber ball called a super ball. He watched her playing with it and the name Super Bowl came to him.

It helps them digest their food better.

Not quite as cool as skateboarding dogs, but it's up there.