In 2002, Slovenian archaeologists uncovered a wooden wheel 20 kilometers from Ljubljana. Austrian experts believe the wheel is between 5,100 and 5,350 years old, which makes it the oldest wooden wheel ever found anywhere in the world.

Ted McGinley (Happy Days, Married With Children) is rumored to have played a Sleestak on the 1970s kids show, Land of the Lost.

Joe Ely almost died from borderline rheumatic fever when he was 7 years old.

Texas produces the most meat goats in the United States, and New Jersey is among the leaders of processing the meat.

According to experts at the University of California at Berkeley, if every e-mail were printed out and piled up, there would be a 9-foot stack for every person on the planet.

This article appears in November 21 • 2003.

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