Numbering at about 400,000 head, there are more emus in the United States than there are in Australia.

To ensure that their bank notes are clean and crisp, the Swiss government replaces as many as one third of the bills in circulation each year at a cost of more than 20 million francs, or $13 million.

Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, whose final resting place in L.A.’s Forest Lawn Cemetery is just east of comedian Joe E. Brown’s grave, was buried with a working telephone because some followers believed she was going to rise from the dead.

The license plate on Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is GEN 11.

Paul Williams drives a Harley.

This article appears in May 5 • 1995 and May 5 • 1995 (Cover).

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