Amend, Discuss, Correct Australian scientists have identified some species of baby spiders that bite off the limbs of their mothers and slowly dine on them over a period of weeks. The researchers hypothesize the maternal sacrifice keeps the young from eating one another. By 1795 the importance of eating citrus was realized, and lemon juice was issued on all British Navy ships. Amend, Discuss, Correct Fourteen percent of the one million citizens of Nairobi, Kenya carry the AIDS virus. Bat bites led to 12 of the 25 cases of rabies seen in the US since 1980.
Dogs are a close second.
Amend, Discuss, Correct Apollo Lunar Mission number 13 was aborted while enroute to the moon in 1970 because of an explosion of a fuel cell in the service module. Amend, Discuss, Correct Triskadekaphobia, fear of the number 13, dates back to Nordic mythology. But the combination of Friday and the number 13 seems to have originated with Christ, whose last supper before his arrest seated 13 and he was crucified on a Friday. If every commuter carried just one more passenger daily, we'd save 600,000 gallons of gasoline and keep 12 million pounds of pollution out of the atmosphere every year. Amend, Discuss, Correct Fifteen members of a high school science class field trip spent an unexpected three days on an ice berg when the ice field they camped on broke free and floated away.