fact Of The Day

Male circumcision is routinely performed at hospitals throughout the U.S., despite increasing evidence that it is not necessarily beneficial for the child. The removed foreskin, however, is often grown into thousands of square feet of new tissue by biotech labs, and can be used as skin for burn victims and to help manufacturer insulin among other uses. The circumcised skin of one child can be extrapolated into 250,000 square feet of new skin and sold at $3,000 per square foot.

Established under Eisenhower, the Marine One helicopter serves to carry the U.S. president from the south lawn of the White House to points nearby or to the tarmac where Air Force One awaits. However, "Marine One" is the President's exclusive call sign, not a helicopter designation. A handful of HMX-1 helicopters play the part of Marine One, dependent on which one the president is on. When transported this way, three or four identical HMX-1 helicopters fly together -- referred to as the "Presidential shell game" -- to confuse anyone looking to shoot the President down.

Since the 2007-08 season, tickets to see the Toronto Maple Leafs have been the most expensive in the league, although average prices for the 2009-10 season are far and away the most expensive in recorded league history, and at $117.49, the only average ticket price ever to cost $100 or more.

This record was set by Charlie Williams, a citizen of the United Kingdom, who managed to put on 224 T-shirts at St. Anthony's Primary School in Essex, UK, in September of 2007. The record attempt was organized by itiswhatitis, a web site that sells - what else - T-shirts.

The durian is native to Indonesia and Malaysia and many consider it a delicacy, but its odor is so strong, so distinctive and, to many, so offensive that some Asian countries ban the fruit from rapid transit and other public places. Many famous travel writers and celebrity chefs have commented on the durian, including Anthony Bourdain, who famously said that after eating the durian, "your breath will smell as if you'd been French-kissing your dead grandmother."

Four film cameras, two video cameras and three still cameras were trained on Oswald as he was led through the basement of the Dallas Police Headquarters handcuffed to Detective Jim Leavelle. They were headed for the private car of Captain J. W. Fritz, which was backing up to meet them and had been chosen for transport while a police van acted as a decoy.

According to the China Youth Association for Network Development (CYAND), there are 24 million people between the ages of 18 and 23 in China suffering from an "internet addiction." Although no standard exists to clinically define internet addiction, Chinese authorities consider the person addicted if they meet one of three requirements: they "always want to use the Internet," they become depressed if they can't use the internet, and they feel happier online than in real life.