So, Mary, you have a new book coming out, and you did, you know, a fair bit of traveling for it.

So I thought maybe today we could start with a few fun facts from the book, and people can kind of guess what the heck was Mary Roach doing in all these places.

So, okay, give me your first fun fact.

All right.

Let's see, a fun fact.

I like this one.

Internet rumors that Napoleon Bonaparte had a goat skin ostominy bag,

and that that is why he was sometimes depicted with his hand inside his vest are untrue.

Perhaps a lot of people haven't heard that rumor about

Napoleon. That just depends on what kind of rumor mill you're in, you know, like what your

office, your water cooler talk is. What are some other fun facts from this book? The sufferers of

pubic alopecia can, if they desire, have scalp hair transplanted

down there and it works. But the thing is, because of something called donor dominance,

if you take it from the back of the head and then you put it down there, you're going to have to

trim it every couple months because it grows long. Head hair grows long. You can also, you can take armpit

hair, chest hair, even pubic hair, and use it as a baldness transplant. But in that case,

and I've read the paper, the problem is that it's, quote, difficult to style. Okay, so so far

this book is about poop and genitals, which is like on par, like par for the course.

But like what else?

Oh, okay, here's a good one.

The first breast implant, which was called the Silastic Natural Field breast prosthesis, circa 1963.

It was available in three sizes, small, medium and large, plus two sizes that they discontinued.

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