Restaurant bathrooms are really, really dangerous...
So many of my first dates have gone to use them and vanished.
Elephant dental capsIn 2002, an elephant's two tusks were fitted with stainless steel dental caps 19-in (50cm) long by 5-in (13-cm) diameter, the world's record largest dental caps, in a 3½-hr operation, on Spike, a 20-year-old Asian elephant at the Calgary Zoo, Alberta, Canada. After about one-third of its left tusk broke off, a crack in the remaining tusk needed protection against further damage to avoid a future medical problem of infection and pain that could require a complicated root canal treatment. The 28-lb (13-kg) prostheses were computer-designed by the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology. The other tusk was shortened and capped to maintained balance. Dental adhesive was supplied by 3M.« |
