Texas Longhorn football coach Steve Sarkisian recently revealed that his grandma’s oatmeal cookies were his favorite.

The origin of “hot dog” is not clear, but during the 19th and 20th centuries, people legally ate dog meat in parts of Germany and hot dogs occasionally contained it.

When Popeye was first introduced as a cartoon character in the strip Thimble Theatre on Jan. 17, 1929, a man carrying a briefcase marked “castor oil” asked him if he was a sailor and Popeye responded, “Ja think I’m a cowboy?”

The life expectancy of a bald eagle is 30 years, 9 months.

Virginia O’Hanlon (of “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.” fame), went on to earn degrees in education, including a master’s from Columbia University and PhD from Fordham Univ. She spent her life in education and died in 1971 on the same day that Mick Jagger married Bianca Perez Morena de Macias in Saint-Tropez.

This article appears in January 10 • 2025.

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