Peter Gabriel won the most Video Music Awards in one year – he won 10 in 1980. Madonna has won the most in her career with 20.

Batman’s first female ally was named Vicki Vale.

If you shake a cocktail for around 12-15 seconds, neither the type of ice you use nor your shaking style will really affect the temperature or dilution of your drink. Shaking completely chills, dilutes, and aerates a drink in around 15 seconds, after which the drink stops changing radically and reaches relative equilibrium.

North Alabama and East Tennessee almost formed their own state called Nickajack.

According to Salon.com writer Tracy Clark-Flory, women who have daughters are more likely to leave their husbands than women with sons. Clark-Flory quotes Anita E. Kelly, a psychology professor at the University of Notre Dame, who has been studying the stats.

This article appears in September 17 • 2010.

A note to readers: Bold and uncensored, The Austin Chronicle has been Austin’s independent news source for over 40 years, expressing the community’s political and environmental concerns and supporting its active cultural scene. Now more than ever, we need your support to continue supplying Austin with independent, free press. If real news is important to you, please consider making a donation of $5, $10 or whatever you can afford, to help keep our journalism on stands.

SUPPORT US