Scooby Doo was almost named “Too Much.”

“My Sharona” by the Knack, “Bennie and the Jets” by Elton John, “My Generation” by The Who, and “You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet” by Bachman Turner Overdrive were all No. x1 Billboard hits that included stuttering lyrics.

Caulrophobia is a fear of clowns.

Published in 1899, Canada’s Royal Winter Game by Art Farrell is considered the first known book written about hockey.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first written use of the word “fore” in a golf context was in 1878 and most likely derived from the Scottish and British military phrase “ware before” shouted by soldiers to warn others of friendly fire.

This article appears in August 2 • 2002.

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