MGM Studios had two of Elvis Presley’s favorites, crispy bacon and mashed potatoes and gravy, put on its commissary menu when Elvis was filming Jailhouse Rock there in 1957.

If you drop a penny on the floor, it isn’t worth your time to pick it up if you earn more than minimum wage.

Mulder and Scully drank Shiner Bock in the final scene of season 7, episode 21 of The X-Files.

Iowa recorded 10 convictions for bigamy in the eight years between 1999 and 2007.
That’s a lower rate than for deaths by lightning.

Full-time college students in the 1960s studied 24 hours per week on average, whereas their counterparts today study 14 hours per week. The 10-hour decline applies to students from all demographic groups and of all cognitive abilities, in every major and at every type of college.

This article appears in April 22 • 2011.

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