Some say William Shakespeare invented the knock-knock joke and included it in Macbeth.

According to new data from the Pew Research Center, only 2% of the American population has ever run for political office, and most of those candidates were white men.

If you had a myriad of things 600 years ago, it meant that you specifically had 10,000 of them.

Big Ben is not the name of the clock; it is the name of the hour bell. Big Ben is most likely called that after the nickname of a bare-knuckle fighter famous when it was installed. The clock’s minute hand is about 14 feet long.

Dan Quayle once said his favorite movie was Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.

This article appears in September 19 • 2014.

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