Almost every town in America has streets named Elm and Chestnut.
The numbers 111, 222, 333, 444, 555, 666, 777, 888, and 999 are all multiples of 37.
According to Mary Beard, a classics professor at the University of Cambridge, the Roman emperor Elagabalus never wore the same pair of shoes twice. For that and other behaviors considered strange for the time, he was assassinated at age 18.
Rice paper isn’t made from rice, but from a small tree which grows in Taiwan.
The opening sequences for Gilligan’s Island were filmed on Moku o Lo’e Island (aka Coconut Island), about a minute and a half by boat off the windward coast of Oahu.
This article appears in April 29 • 2016.