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one night in October 1992, thieves tried to dig up his body, apparently to steal the rumored jewelry. The thieves managed to dig all the way down to Hill’s coffin, but were unable to get it open before daybreak, when they had to flee. A passerby discovered the desecrated grave soon after sunup, and within hours cemetery workers filled in the hole and covered the grave with a half-ton slab of concrete. Hill has rested undisturbed ever since.
Japan’s Hanshin Expressway passes through the 5th, 6th, and 7th floors of an office building.

BEFORE YOU GO
Overcome with wanderlust? Enjoy these random facts about travel .
    • World’s two busiest international airports: Atlanta, with 36 million passengers per year, and Beijing, with 31 million.
    • Country most visited by vacationers: France, with 77 million visitors annually.
    • Since 2007, the U.S. has issued e-passports. They’re like regular passports but with a computer chip that enables face recognition, fingerprints, and iris scans at international borders. (Can you get yours without the chip? No.)
    • Most common travel injury: a stubbed or broken toe incurred from walking barefoot in a poorly lit hotel room.
    • Weird hotel: the eight-room Salt Palace in Bolivia, which sits atop a 12,500-foot high salt flat. The building, tables, chairs, and beds are all carved out of salt. Guests are warned not to lick the walls. (But they are encouraged to sample the barbecued llama meat.)
    • Average weight gain on a week-long cruise: 8 pounds.
    • Before flying, avoid onions, cauliflower, cabbage, baked beans, and other foods that cause bloating. At cruising altitude the air in your digestive tract expands by up to 30 percent, which may cause you (and your neighbors) distress.
    • World’s most visited tourist attraction: Times Square in New York, with 35 million out-of-towners each year.
    • Travel tip: If stranded on a desert island and desperate for water, eat animal eyes (including fish eyes). They’re a good source of pure water.
    • A survey by a New York City hotel found that 70 percent of room lockouts and 65 percent of guests found wandering the halls in some state of undress were women. They also used twice as many towels as male guests.
    • If you’re traveling to Spain, consider visiting the town of San Pablo de Los Montes, which holds an annual Skirt-lifting Festival in January. For one day only, men can lift women’s skirts without getting arrested (or clobbered).
Most-used mode of vacation transportation in the U.S.: the family car.

FELINE FACTS
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    • The only cats that hold their tails upright when they walk: domestic cats. All other cat species—lions, tigers, etc.—dangle their tails or hold them parallel to the ground.
    • World’s loudest domestic cat: Smokey, a 12-year-old tabby from Northampton, England. In 2011 Smokey’s purr was recorded at 67.7 decibels—about the same volume as an electric shaver.
    • Unlike dogs, most cat breeds are roughly the same size and body shape. Reason? They were all developed for the same job: catching rodents.
    • In ancient Egypt, it was customary to mourn the death of a household cat by shaving your eyebrows.
    • On average, outdoor cats “go” twice as often as indoor cats: They poop twice a day, and pee four times.
    • When grooming, most cats clean their mouths and faces first, then the front legs and midsection. They usually clean their hindquarters and tail last. (Wouldn’t you?)
    • A cat rubs up against other cats to mingle its smell and reinforce its membership in the “pack.” The lower a cat is in the pecking order, the more it rubs against other cats.
    • Cats have scent glands in the pads of their paws that release a marking scent when they knead a blanket, a pillow...or you.
    • The word “tabby” comes from the Arabic al-Attabiyya , a section of Baghdad where striped silk fabric was manufactured in the