Utah is the country’s single biggest consumer of online porn.

Formal honors for the U.S. vice president include a 19-gun salute and bands playing “Hail, Columbia.”

The first arc-light tower was erected in San Jose, Calif., in December 1881. It stood 237 feet tall and was supplied with six arc lights for a total of 24,000 candlepower. Destroyed in a 1915 storm, it was replaced with a replica.

John Joseph “Black Jack” Pershing (1860-1948) was the only person to be promoted in his own lifetime to the highest rank ever held in the U.S. Army: general of the armies. A retroactive congressional act passed in 1976 declared that George Washington has never been and will never be outranked.

Casu marzu is a traditional sheep-milk cheese notable for being riddled with live insect larva.

This article appears in March 6 • 2009.

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