Dinner-Party Conversation Starters From Around the World

Dinner-Party Conversation Starters From Around the World

A whole-earth catalogue. The infamous Macron slap, Olympic sperm racers, Céline Dion’s G.D.P. bump, and other strange stories from around the globe … By George Kalogerakis We’re still processing the news from Al Bahnasa—site of the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus? Just south of Cairo?—where, Scientific American reported, an excavation team found “a sheet of papyrus inside [a] mummy’s abdomen that contained text from the Iliad, the ancient Greek poet…