Celebrities saved by the Heimlich maneuver:
- Ronald Reagan
- Ed Koch
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Goldie Hawn
- Cher
- Walter Matthau
- Carrie Fisher
- Dick Vitale
- John Chancellor
- Jack Lemmon
Trivia
Plus Permits
In today’s dollars, the Taj Mahal cost more than $500 million.
I Do
On Aug. 10, 2003, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko became the first person to be married in space.
He was in the international space station, 240 miles over New Zealand, when he married Ekaterina Dmitrieva, who was in Texas.
A Common Theme
Deaths of selected Burmese kings:
- Uzana (1254): Trampled to death by an elephant
- Minrekyawswa (1417): Crushed to death by an elephant
- Razadarit (1423): Died while lassoing elephants
- Tabinshweti (1551): Beheaded while searching for an elephant
Draw your own conclusions.
Lost and Found
Up to 2,000 people a year lose their coats in Grand Central Station.
Seeing Double
“Dear Abby” and Ann Landers were identical twins.
They even had a joint wedding ceremony in 1939.
Man-Made Lightning
Flames conduct electricity. Forest fires near high-voltage transmission lines can actually discharge them to the ground.
Feather Report
Last year, 2,997 Dutch students set a record for the world’s largest pillow fight.
Clemenceau said, “War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.”
Early Fame
Marilyn Monroe was Miss Artichoke of 1948.
Proof of the Pudding
No functioning democracy has ever suffered a famine.