While the U.S. has only 5% of the world’s population, it has between 35% and 50% of the world’s civilian firearms.

You would have to consume seven glasses of milk a day for 78 years to drink a cow’s entire lifetime production of moo juice.

According to author Bryan Garner, “forego” traditionally means “to go before; to precede in time or place.” “Forgo” means “to do without; to pass up voluntarily; waive; renounce.” The words are commonly misused.

In 1980, Charlie Fawcett helped film the conflict between Russia and Afghanistan. This helped persuade the U.S. to secretly support the Mujahideen and was the basis of the film Charlie Wilson’s War. During World War II, Fawcett had paper marriages to six Jewish women in concentration camps so they could get American visas.

There’s a parade in Memphis every year in honor of Dead Elvis Day (August 16).

This article appears in August 14 • 2015.

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