Popeye’s girlfriend, Olive Oyl, had family members named Castor Oyl, Nana Oyl, Cole Oyl, and Cylinda Oyl.

Sid Caesar doesn’t like getting haircuts.

The average American household expends about 14% of the energy it uses on heating water. That adds up to nearly 4% of the country’s total energy use and spins off about 260 million tons of carbon-dioxide emissions.

Queen Victoria insisted on being buried with the bathrobe of her long-dead husband, Prince Albert, and a plaster cast of his hand.

The lifetime chance for an American of being killed by international terrorism is about one in 80,000 – about the same chance of being killed by a comet or a meteor.

This article appears in January 12 • 2007.

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