No two zebras are patterned alike.

The first pizza delivery was in 1889 by Raffaele Esposito, owner of Pietro il Pizzaiolo in Naples. The recipients were King Umberto I and Queen Margherita. Refusing to go to the likes of a pizzeria, the queen ordered in.

Adolph Hitler received royalties for postage stamps that bore his portrait.

The Anglo-Saxons apparently didn’t have any swear words. What we now call “crude Anglo-Saxon epithets” actually originated in the latter Middle Ages and came from Holland.

This article appears in December 17 • 1999.

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