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police apparel. These first police officers, the famous ‘Bobbies’ of London, wore a dark blue, paramilitary-style uniform. The color helped to distinguish them from the British military, who wore red and white uniforms. Based on the London police, the New York City Police Department adopted the dark blue uniform in 1853. Today, most U.S. law enforcement agencies continue to use dark uniforms for their ability to help conceal the wearer in tactical situations and for their ease in cleaning. Dark colors also help hide stains.” (From “The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin,” by Richard R. Johnson)
    DON’T GET TESTY!
    Q: Why do patients have to cough during a hernia exam?
    A: “A hernia occurs when soft tissue, usually part of the intestine, protrudes through a weak point or tear in your abdominal wall. This bulging is most likely to occur when there’s increased pressure on your abdomen, such as when lifting, straining, sneezing, or coughing. Forcing a cough during a hernia exam causes your abdominal muscles to contract and increase pressure within your abdomen. This may force a hernia to bulge out, making it easier to detect during examination.” (From the Mayo Clinic’s website, by Michael Picco, M.D.)
About 6% of the world’s population experiences sleep paralysis—the inability to move for several minutes after awakening.

TO TELL THE TRUTH
Truth is elusive, truth is power, truth is the subject of these quotations .
    “We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.”
    —Blaise Pascal
    “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance. It is the illusion of knowledge.”
    —Stephen Hawking
    “As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.”
    —Josh Billings
    “The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.”
    —Niels Bohr
    “Say not, ‘I have found the truth,’ but rather, ‘I have found a truth.’”
    —Khalil Gibran
    “There is nothing as boring as the truth.”
    —Charles Bukowski
    “When something important is going on, silence is a lie.”
    —A. M. Rosenthal
    “When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.”
    —William Blake
    “The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.”
    —W. Somerset Maugham
    “What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.”
    —Margaret Meade
    “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”
    —Galileo
    “Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.”
    —Emily Dickinson
    “The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.”
    —Hermann Hesse
    “All generalizations, including this one, are false.”
    —Mark Twain

WHEN YOU GOTTA GO…
Everybody dies. But few people’s deaths are bizarre enough to get a mention in one of our books. So rest in peace, dearly departed, and know that your lives had great meaning—you’ve entertained a legion of bathroom readers .
    S CHOOL’S OUT…FOREVER
    For 36 years, Sharon Smith had devoted her life to teaching elementary school in Molino, Florida. On the day of her retirement in June 2008, the 57-year-old fourth-grade teacher bid a fond farewell to her final class of kids. Then, just a few minutes later, Smith had trouble breathing. She died en route to the hospital. Her retirement had lasted less than half an hour.
    HEART TO HEART
    Sixty-nine-year-old Sonny Graham’s 2008 death in Vidalia, GA, was thought to be just another tragic case of suicide until it was revealed that, 12 years earlier, he’d received a heart transplant from a donor who had also committed suicide. Even stranger, both men died in the same manner: a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Stranger still, Graham was married to Cheryl Cottle, the widow of the man whose heart he received. “I felt