According to Laure McLaughlin, an energy analyst with the Texas Comptroller’s Office, 50% of the all of the energy produced in Texas (from 17 sources of energy) is consumed by industry. The national average is about 32%. And Texas accounts for about 11.5% of all energy consumption nationally.

The first TV program to be captioned was The Mod Squad in 1972.

There’s a church in Raleigh, N.C., that has a Starbucks.

Although many assume that the name HAL in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey was based on a one letter shift from the name IBM, this has been denied by both Arthur C. Clarke and 2001 director Stanley Kubrick. “HAL” was derived from “Heuristic Algorithmic.”

Hussein Onyango Obama, Barack Obama’s grandfather, was a British soldier in World War II who was imprisoned and tortured by the British as a Mau Mau rebel in Kenya.

This article appears in March 13 • 2009.

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