The kitchen at Apsley House, the residence of the Duke of Wellington, contains more than 500 Jell-O molds.
Waco is one of only two cities in the U.S. that has a radio station whose call letters spell out the name of the city.
The word “daemon” was first applied to describe processes that occur in the background on a computer by an MIT team led by Professor Fernando J. Corbato at Project MAC in 1963. They were inspired by 19th-century scientist Maxwell who described a “daemon” to explain certain physics and thermodynamics phenomena.
Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison had names beginning with J, were left-handed, and died at age 27 in drug-related incidents.
Arena football in the 1990s boasted such teams as the Minnesota Fighting Pike and the Miami Hooters.
This article appears in February 8 • 2002.