According to one rock historian, Gregg Allman wrote “Whipping Post” on an ironing board using burnt matches. He had gotten the idea in the middle of the night and couldn’t find a pen.

Bill Gates (world’s wealthiest man) and Warren Buffett (second wealthiest) “frequently play bridge together.”

Germs found in dental plaque can make their way into the lungs and cause potentially fatal pneumonia in elderly nursing-home patients, according to researchers at University at Buffalo in New York.

The London Underground is not a political movement.

This article appears in 2004.

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