Peanuts are not nuts; they’re legumes.

The first Star Trek episode aired closer in time to the ratification of the 19th Amendment – giving women in the United States the right to vote – than to today.

The average NFL player lasts for just three years of service, according to NFL union head DeMaurice Smith.

Black Friday doesn’t only apply to the Friday after Thanksgiving. September 24, 1869, was called Black Friday due to a crash in the gold market.

The first revolving door was installed in a restaurant called Rector’s in Times Square in 1899. MIT researchers say revolving doors exchange eight times less air than swinging doors, which can add up to thousands of dollars in wasted energy costs per building per year.

This article appears in November 29 • 2013.

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