It’s possible to make a liquid laser using gin and tonic.

Dean Martin liked comic books.

Two years into the Revolutionary War, Benjamin Rush, a surgeon general in the Continental Army, issued a pamphlet on nutrition that said the soldiers’ diets should consist mostly of vegetables.

The median age for men to get married in 2007 was 27.7. In 1960, it was 22.8 years.
In 1920, it was 24.6 years. In 1890, it was 26.1 years.

Jerry Siegel wrote (and Joe Shuster illustrated) a short story, “The Reign of the Super-Man,” six years before Siegel wrote (and Shuster illustrated) the “Superman” story in 1938. This short story marked the first published use of any form of the name Superman.

This article appears in March 11 • 2011.

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