Ben and Jerry learned how to make ice cream from a
correspondence class from Penn State. The class cost $5.
Their first choice was to make bagels, but the equipment
was too expensive.

Sweetwater, Texas, has the highest concentration
of windmill farms in the United States.

The average person eats 116 doughnuts a year.

Actor Patrick Macnee narrowly averted death while serving in the Royal Navy. On the one occasion he did not set sail on his ship owing to illness, the ship was blown out of the water.

This article appears in May 2 • 2008.

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