Notebook — From the March 1992 issue
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Notebook — From the March 1992 issue
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Unnarrated incidents of Grant’s trip around the world
Editor's drawer — From the December 1923 issue

Percentage by which the risk of type 2 diabetes increases for every two hours a day that a person watches television:

Two bottled ghosts—of an old man and a young girl—were sold at auction in New Zealand.

The practice of sexualized eyeball licking was causing conjunctivitis in Japanese sixth graders.