Percentage Of Steakers Who Keep Their Shoes On: 85

How can you tell the difference from an alligator? Florida crocodiles have a more slender build and different snout shape. Its snout tapers forward from the eyes; the gator's snout is untapered and rounded at the end. Then there's that tooth. When the croc's mouth is closed, that fourth tooth in the lower jaw juts out. Gators' teeth don't show. St. Petersburg Times and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

* A survey conducted for Ace hardware shows that women don't object to getting their hands dirty. Fifty-two percent have repaired a running toilet, 46 percent fixed a leaky faucet, 44 percent cleaned heating and air-conditioning equipment and 38 percent installed a light fixture. St. Petersburg Times

*Number of cell phone subscribers in the United States: 180 million. Time

* Percentage of streakers who keep their shoes on: 85. Allure

*For the first time, single adults outnumber couples with children as the most common type of household in the United States, according to new figures from the 2000 Census. Associated Press

*Hawaiians consume nearly 7 million cans of Spam each year - about 6 cans for every man, woman and child. Playboy

* Amount paid by New York restaurateur Francesco Giambelli at an auction for a 2.4-pound white truffle: $41,000. Playboy

*On a typical workday, more Americans eat lunch in a car (15 percent) than in a restaurant (14 percent). Most dine at home, at their desk, or in the office lunchroom. Associated Press

*Northwest Airlines might soon start charging passengers for sodas. The troubled carrier already does so for snacks and meals, and it stopped giving out free pretzels and magazines on domestic routes in June. BusinessWeek

*You mean that was real? "It took months for my chest hair to grow back," says Steve Carell of his waxing scene in The 40-Year-Old Virgin. "I thought I'd be all macho, but it hurt like crazy. I doff my cap to women. I'd have none of it." Entertainment Weekly

* Full mail service is expected to be restored to the barrier island community of Pensacola Beach one day before the Sept. 16 anniversary of Hurricane Ivan. Why so long? Many mailboxes had not been repaired or replaced and storm debris posed a hazard. Associated Press

*Students at Empire High School in Arizona started class this year with iBooks instead of textbooks. The school issued the Apple laptop computers to each of its 340 students, becoming one of the first U.S. public schools to shun printed textbooks. Associated Press

*Drunken driving deaths declined 2 percent across the nation last year, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. In Florida, 865 died in 2004, down from 907 in 2003. Associated Press