• 5/31: Dogs, like cats, drink by forming a column with their tongues, pulling up a long column of liquid and ingesting it before gravity drags it back down.
• 5/30: Bored young men in Libya engage in a sport called drifting—i.e., making their cars skid and slide.
• 5/29: There are wines being marketed as Mommy's Time Out and MommyJuice.
• 5/28: Musician Gil Scott-Heron died.
• 5/27: According to a new study on seafood fraud, the rates of some mislabeled species run as high as 70 percent.
• 5/26: Director Kathryn Bigelow is planning a film on the killing of Osama bin Laden.
• 5/25: President Obama will be the first sitting U.S. president to visit Puerto Rico since John F. Kennedy in 1961.
• 5/24: Fingernails grow about three times as fast as toenails, and the dominant hand's nails grow faster than the ones on the other hand.
• 5/23: Lance Armstrong is under federal investigation for fraud, conspiracy, drug trafficking, and money laundering.
• 5/22: Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain has never held public office.
• 5/21: The designer of Mike Tyson's face tattoo is suing the producers of The Hangover Part II for using the design.
• 5/20: A college student threw eggs and a shoe at the architect of China's strict Internet controls; the eggs missed but the shoe did not.
• 5/19: San Franciscans will vote on whether to ban male circumcision.
• 5/18: The dollar, weighed against a basket of other currencies, hit a 40-year low this month.
• 5/17: Texas is close to enacting a law that would require voters to show photo ID.
• 5/16: New York State Senator Rubén Díaz Sr., a Pentecostal minister vehemently opposed to gay marriage, has a gay granddaughter.
• 5/15: Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater, has been hired by Abu Dhabi to put together an 800-member battalion of foreign troops that will conduct missions inside and outside the country.
• 5/13: Websites are liable for advertising that breaks federal criminal law.
• 5/12: The new taxis in New York will have "low-annoyance" horns.
• 5/11: Google is lobbying Nevada to allow its driverless cars.
• 5/10: In the 1970s, the British government administered "virginity tests" to prospective female immigrants.
• 5/9: Around 30 states have passed laws allowing companies to set up special insurance subsidiaries called captives, something that only used to be allowed offshore.
• 5/8: According to one of his sons, Osama bin Laden loved nature.
• 5/7: Shania Twain lost her ability sing after discovering that her husband was having an affair with a close friend (whose ex-husband Twain ended up marrying).
• 5/6: The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will vacation in California this summer.
• 5/5: North Korea is estimated to be holding 200,000 political prisoners captive.
• 5/4: To improve "social management," China's top internal security officer called for a database containing information on each of the country's 1.34 billion residents.
• 5/3: U.S. special forces' code name for Osama Bin Laden was Geronimo.
• 5/2: Tilapia has far lower levels of omega-3 fatty acids than most other widely eaten fish.
• 5/1: Muammar el-Qaddafi's youngest son and three of his grandchildren were killed in a NATO airstrike.