Bill Clinton, Madonna, and Leonard Nimoy are fans of the British comedy sci-fi series Red Dwarf.

If you want to avoid the mess of a drippy ice cream cone — especially when you’re dealing with kids — try stuffing a small marshmallow into the bottom of the cone. It will help soak up the melting ice cream before it drips out.

Counter help in the 1940s had a nickname for diner cockroaches: racehorses.

When someone annoys you, it takes 42 muscles in your face to frown, but it only takes four muscles to extend your arm and smack the person upside the head.

There’s a supermarket named Piggly Wiggly in Krakow, Poland.

This article appears in September 3 • 1999.

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