Trivial Factoids

Watch an episode of Grey's Anatomy and you'll notice that many of the surgeons listen to music in their operating room during each procedure. Is this Hollywood McDreamy storytelling, or do real doctors rock out with scalpel in hand? Well, "in a survey of 200 anesthesiologists published in 1997 in the British journal Anaesthesia, 72 percent of respondents said music was played regularly in their operating rooms." In some cases, that actually included ABBA tunes. (Not everyone survives surgery anyway, right?)


Nearly 1 in 4 Americans from the ages of 18-50 have a tattoo. The other three are hiding a few feet away laughing and pointing.