Hairy toes are a sign of good circulation.

In 1953, as a G.I. intercepting Russian Morse code transmissions, Johnny Cash became the first American to learn of Josef Stalin’s death.

Some assert that the poisonous copperhead snake smells like fresh-cut cucumbers.

The Evans Gambit chess opening (1]e4 e5 2]Nf3 Nc6 3]Bc4 Bc5 4]b4), which is a variation of the Giuoco Piano (Italian for “quiet game”), is named after W.D. Evans, a Welsh sea captain who invented it in the 1820s.

2004 was the first year in 50 years that the U.S. did not run an agricultural trade surplus.

This article appears in March 4 • 2005.

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