The moon recedes from the Earth at about 3.7 centimeters per year.

The last meal of Ricky McGinn, executed in Texas on Sept. 27, 2000, included chicken fried steak and french fries. The last Texas death row inmate to have eaten chicken fried steak and fries as a last meal was Billy Hughes Jr., way back on Jan. 24, 2000.

The last time American green cards were actually green was 1964.

Although Benjamin Franklin came up with the idea of Daylight Savings Time in 1784, Germany was the first country to formally introduce it in 1915.

An estimated half a billion people have played Monopoly.

This article appears in November 3 • 2000.

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