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** There is a police report of a man being brought in for questioning after a large blood splatter, as well as an embedded bullet, was found on the wall of a hotel room he had rented the night before. Upon further inspection they discovered it was a failed suicide attempt; the bullet (which was quite low-calibre) had gone straight through his brain yet missed any important parts. He had reportedly walked off with no memory of the suicide attempt.

** Look no further than Gabrielle Giffords. She was shot through the head, but she is expected to eventually make a full recovery.

** Several names fall into this. In ''The Canterbury Tales,'' several of the female characters are given modern-sounding names (albeit spelled differently.) Allison and Emily come to mind.

* Anatomically, the human heart is located in the ''bottom center'' of the chest cavity, yet everything from vampire flicks to firing-range targets depict it as being in the upper left quadrant, merely because the heartbeat is ''louder'' in that location. (The heart's left side is stronger than the right, and projects its sound upward with the aortic blood flow.) Even doctors get looked at funny if they try to center their hands over their actual hearts during the US national anthem, as opposed to centering the hand over the left lung as most people do and letting the heel of the hand end up closer to the actual position.