Nearly 1,100 “Looney Tunes” cartoons were created between 1930 and 1969.

It takes a year for the moon to orbit the sun. The moon is moving away from the Earth at a rate of 4 centimeters a year.

While a student in the 1820s and before coming to Texas, James Butler Bonham, Alamo defender and martyr, once led a massive demonstration at South Carolina College protesting inferior cafeteria food and the requirement that students attend class during bad weather.

A bursting balloon actually creates a small sonic boom.

In June 5, 1995, scientist C.W. Moeliker of Natuurmuseum Rotterdam recorded the first known incident of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck.

This article appears in November 14 • 2003.

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