VOMIT is an acronym for “voice over misconfigured Internet telephones.”

The Price Is Right‘s Bob Barker spent most of his boyhood days on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in Mission, South Dakota, where his mother was a schoolteacher and later superintendent of schools for Todd County.

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson holds the Guinness Book of World Records record for shaking the most hands – 13,392 – in an eight-hour period.

The original Herbie the Love Bug was a 1963 VW Bug. His racing number was 53, and he had California license plate number OFP 857.

Caligula – or, Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, to be formal – was the son of the popular general Germanicus, whose life story bears more than a passing resemblance to Russell Crowe’s character in Gladiator.

This article appears in October 17 • 2003.

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