Cedar Point, located in Sandusky, Ohio, is dubbed “the roller coaster capital of the world.”

There are no bears currently native to Africa.

According to author Maeve E. Doggett, a Victorian-era “law” allowing the battering of women may be urban myth. It was believed husbands had the legal right to beat their wives if they used a stick no thicker than their thumb. Doggett, however, says there never was such a law.

In 1840, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow became the first American to have plumbing installed in his house.

Horse meat is most widely available in France, Belgium, and Sweden, where it outsells mutton and lamb combined. It’s also a dietary staple in Japan, China, Belgium, Germany, and Switzerland.

This article appears in November 4 • 2011.

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