Kim Basinger likes to collect inflatable ducks.

Households are spending about $1,000 more per year for gasoline than they were just five years ago – an 85% increase, according to consumer groups’ analyses prepared for the House Judiciary Committee.

Twenty-thousand telephone companies were started between 1894 and 1903.

Only licensed nurseries are allowed to produce Red Savina habaneros. Transplants may be sold to the home gardener. Seeds from these peppers cannot be legally saved to sell to others.

Before there were pencil erasers, people used bread crumbs to erase their mistakes.

This article appears in June 22 • 2007.

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