Before Prohibition, bars didn’t have stools. But they did have towels for men to wipe off their mustaches.

Lewis Carroll wrote more than 97,000 letters in his lifetime.

Running the tap for five minutes can use as much energy as running a 60-watt light bulb for 14 hours.

The TV show Happy Days was almost called New Family in Town.

According to one source, chicken tikka was created at the court of Rajput King Maharana Pratap of Mewar in the 14th century. Others say chefs of his rival Mogul emperors such as Akbar invented the dish. Still others say it was invented at a British Bangladeshi restaurant. Ahmed Aslam Ali says he invented it at his Shish Mahal restaurant in Glasgow.

This article appears in February 26 • 2010.

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