One in four Texans has no health insurance.

The name of the fake gorilla in the 1970 American Tourister TV commercial was Oofi.

Neuroscientist Dr. Lawrence Farwell believes that a brain wave called P300 could be used to weed out bad guys.

The finest pigment available to medieval artists was ultramarine, which began to appear in Western art in the 13th century. It was made from the blue mineral lapis lazuli, of which only one source was known: the remote mines of Badakshan, now in Afghanistan.

Legend has it an actor working for Forest Lawn Cemetery auditioned in front of the body of Walt Disney shortly after it arrived. He wrote down on his résumé that he auditioned for Walt Disney and as a result got the next role he went for.

This article appears in December 21 • 2001.

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