Grover Cleveland named his favorite hunting rifle “Death and Destruction.”

Ferdinand Porsche raced a wheel-hub-motored EV in Vienna in 1897. Using a lead battery, its range was about 50 km, or about 31 miles.

According to author Gad Saad, in Boolean algebra, a statement is true or false based on an axiomatic truth.

It seems the British Royal Navy came up with the idea of three meals a day in the 16th century. They were served in square wooden trays, which may explain the expression “square meal.”

When in Hungary, don’t raise a toast with a beer. During the 1848 Hungarian Revolution, Austrians were jovially clinking beers while Hungarian revolutionaries were being executed. There was even a law on the books until 1999 that forbade toasting with beer, and some still carry on the tradition.

This article appears in April 18 • 2025.

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