During breaks on the set of the original Planet of the Apes, the gorilla, orangutan, and chimpanzee actors liked to hang out with “their own kind,” rather than mingling.

The Pony Express delivered 34,753 pieces of mail.

Vermont earns more from bicycle tourism than from maple syrup.

Suburban residents’ risk of injury in automobile accidents is four times that of city dwellers.

Joseph Heller had to change the title of his book from Catch 18 to Catch 22 because his publishing house was already scheduled to bring out Leon Uris’s Mila 18.

This article appears in November 16 • 2001.

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