Dwight Eisenhower, Lyndon Johnson, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush all quit smoking before becoming president.

The first bank robbery on U.S. soil is thought to have been in Philadelphia in 1798, when a team of thieves hit the Bank of Pennsylvania and made off with cash worth $1.8 million in today’s terms.

According to researcher Joan Ocean, the Sasquatch can read, write, shape-shift, voice-project, create infrasound that affects the environment, dematerialize at will – or cause you to have an experience of “lost time” so you think they dematerialized.

A madman, William Minor, contributed significantly to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary from his prison cell.

George Lucas named the screen character Indiana Jones after his Alaskan malamute.

This article appears in March 23 • 2007.

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