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Week 707: What Would YOU Do?

(Bob Staake For The Washington Post)

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An ant is capable of lifting an object five times its own weight but is incapable of getting off its lazy thorax and taking out the garbage. -- Anita Ant, Ant Farm, Rockville (Stephen Dudzik)

Each of NASA's Apollo missions carried an extra astronaut in case of emergency. (Bob Dalton, Arlington)

Until organizers found out and canceled the contract in 1999, Vegan Action pamphlets were printed in ink containing pigments made from cow blood. (Kevin Dopart)

Alexander the Great's name more accurately translates into English as Alexander the Above Average. (Russell Beland)

There is as much nutrition in the peel of one potato as in a 12-ounce serving of carpet tacks. (Brendan Beary)

Iridium and beryllium are the only two elements known to mate. (Bob Dalton)

Adrian Fenty's fedora used to belong to Jack Abramoff. (Kevin Dopart)

By October 1941, Roosevelt had secretly learned of four things we had to fear in addition to fear itself. (Russell Beland)

Next Week: Another Game of Tag, or Plate Textonics

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