Things I learned today (2)

Every day is a learning experience, or ought to be, and here's what I'm finding out:

• The American Sign Language gestures for words relating to "abortion" involve the portrayal of something being thrown away.

• It is apparently possible to stage Shakespeare with an all-female cast.

• Some 80 percent of spam is sent by machines hijacked by Trojan-horse infections.

• Not everyone in Bolivia is happy with the country's Miss Universe candidate, who inexplicably turns out to be a tall, English-speaking white woman.

• Fifty Avon brochures weigh as much as a small child.

• Gamma radiation is a bitch.