The cabinet in Nepal donned oxygen tanks today for an event billed as the world's highest cabinet meeting ever. The meeting was organized to draw attention to the environment of the Himalayas.
The Morgan Library and Museum in Manhattan owns the hand-written manuscript of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, but has only put one page per year on display for public viewing. This year, though, it allowed the New York Times to make high-quality scans of the manuscript - showing some judicious editing on Dickens's part - online. You can see some details here; this link should take you to the full text, although I and other readers have been getting compression error messages.
The name of Tiger Woods's yacht is, fittingly, Privacy.
A Montreal study that set out to compare men in their 20s who watched pornography with those who did not had to readjust, after researchers could not find a single subject in the second category.
The characters of Sheldon and Leonard on the comedy The Big Bang Theory are not randomly named. Creator Chuck Lorre named the physicists after the late, great Sheldon Leonard, the actor, writer and a producer of the Dick Van Dyke Show, among many other programs.
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