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The Human Genome Project found that the difference between the races is minuscule (0.01%) compared with the difference between the sexes (1-2%).

Princeton University geologist Kenneth S. Deffeyes predicts "a permanent state of oil shortage." By the end of the decade – if not sooner – the world's oil production, having grown exuberantly for more than a century, will peak and begin to decline.

According to a Johns Hopkins study, two-thirds of fatally injured bicyclists are tested for alcohol; 32% of those tested have been drinking.

The U.S. military is developing a weapon that delivers a bout of excruciating pain from up to two kilometers away. It concerns so-called Pulsed Energy Projectiles, which fire a laser pulse that generates a burst of expanding plasma when it hits something solid, like a person.

It is believed Frank Sinatra was buried with one bottle of Jack Daniels, one pack of unfiltered Camel cigarettes, one Zippo lighter, and 10 dimes (in case he needs to make a phone call).