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Late adopter, fast follows: Bill Gates joined Twitter on Tuesday, gaining a whopping 100,000 followers in his account's first hours. That means Gates was picking up more than 200 followers every minute. By this morning, Gates's follower count had tripled.

Dan Hill is as sick and tired of his 1970s monster single Sometimes When We Touch as any of his critics. In an illuminating piece in Maclean's, Hill revealed he wrote the words when he was 19, to impress a girlfriend who didn't care much for the song, nor for him. "I’ve long ago grown more than a little weary of my signature hit—its lyrics now about as relevant to me as a poem or diary entry a teenager might have scrawled out in high school—and its refusal to go gently into that good night," Hill wrote. 

Some disability rates among Canada's public servants have been mounting, with depression cited as an area of special concern, says an article this month in the Ottawa Citizen. "In the public service, mental health claims doubled between 1991 and 2007 and now account for 45 per cent of all claims," the article reported.

The Italian government is poised to start regulating what its residents can watch online. The government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, whose private escapades have made for international headlines, plans in early February to start regulating what is on YouTube. It's worth noting that Berlusconi happens to own a broadcasting empire, and has a vested interest in where Italian eyeballs are directed. 

American and British military officials learned this week that gunsights on some of the weapons their soldiers used in Iraq and Afghanistan are engraved with symbols such as JN8:12, which refers to the Biblical verse of John 8:12  ("When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, 'I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.") Trijcon, the U.S. manufacturer, explained the engravings on its principle of operating by what it called "Biblical standards."

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Auto-Tune, the processing system that corrects a singer's pitch but which is best known for making Jay-Z and many, many other performers sound like androids, was actually developed first for seismic research. In one of those fortuitous side effects, the developer realized that the technology could correct pitch as well as it could handle seismic data.

Bruce Springsteen named his backing group the E Street Band after a thoroughfare in Belmar, N.J. The mother of David Sancious, the original keyboardist, lived on E Street; the band learned its chops through rehearsals in the house. The street from 10th Avenue Freezeout is also in Belmar. 

Marthe Bernard, who plays Allan Hawco's niece Tinny in the new CBC series Republic of Doyle, comes by her comic timing and acting chops honestly. She's the daughter of the venerable St. John's comedian Andy Jones, of Codco fame, and actor Mary-Lynn Bernard, who is a fine performer herself; if you caught it, Mary-Lynn was in the background of a scene in the debut episode. [Bonus fact: today is Andy Jones's birthday.] [Bonus and not particularly relevant fact: One of the characters in the book I'm writing was called TInny until November, when I changed it. He's a boy, and it was his nickname; my eyes almost popped when I saw the debut, because I thought the name was so unusual!]

Power-assisted bikes remain a novelty in North America and much of Europe, but have been successfully introduced in Asia. Some 23 million units were sold in 2008, with 21 million sold in China.

Superstar, the song turned into a huge hit by the Carpenters and performed by everyone from Ruben Studdart to Sonic Youth, was originally Groupie, with the word Superstar in parantheses. The song was written by Bonnie Bramlett (who recorded it with her husband, Delaney Bramlett, and some guitarist named Eric Clapton) and pianist-singer Leon Russell.

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One of the most famous phrases in A Christmas Carol - "Tiny Tim, who did not die" - was not in Charles Dickens's original manuscript. Dickens added the phrase, among many other changes, in handwritten notes and revisions before the instant classic was published. [I was disappointed that Robert Zemeckis dropped the phrase from the otherwise applaudable animated version of A Christmas Carol that came out last month.]

The Airbus A400M, which had its inaugural flight today in Spain, has a range of as much as 6,400 kilometres, or about 4,000 miles. It has about double the cargo of older aircraft like the C-130 Hercules aircraft, not to mention significant budget overruns.

Greg Lake wrote Lucky Man, the best-selling song for Emerson Lake and Palmer, when he was only 12 years old. ELP recorded it only because they needed a short song to fill one side of their first record, and had a day to do it.

Amazon allows publishers to set their own prices for Kindle-ready digital editions of their books, but keeps 65 per cent of the revenue.

Bobby Vinton not only remains a symbol of pre-Beatle America, he holds the distinction of having held the No. 1 chart spot before the British Invasion. His rendition of the David Mann song There I've Said It Again was bumped from the top by I Want To Hold Your Hand in 1964.

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The cabinet in Nepal donned oxygen tanks today for an event billed as the world's highest cabinet meeting ever. The meeting was organized to draw attention to the environment of the Himalayas. 

The Morgan Library and Museum in Manhattan owns the hand-written manuscript of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, but has only put one page per year on display for public viewing. This year, though, it allowed the New York Times to make high-quality scans of the manuscript - showing some judicious editing on Dickens's part - online. You can see some details here; this link should take you to the full text, although I and other readers have been getting compression error messages.

The name of Tiger Woods's yacht is, fittingly, Privacy.

A Montreal study that set out to compare men in their 20s who watched pornography with those who did not had to readjust, after researchers could not find a single subject in the second category.

 

The characters of Sheldon and Leonard on the comedy The Big Bang Theory are not randomly named. Creator Chuck Lorre named the physicists after the late, great Sheldon Leonard, the actor, writer and a producer of the Dick Van Dyke Show, among many other programs. 

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The first musical instrument played in space was a harmonica, which astronaut Wally Schirra smuggled aboard a Gemini space mission in 1965. The instrument (like some sleigh bells that Schirra and a collegague also took aboard) is held at the Air and Space Museum in Washington.

The Daily Show, which has made a stock in trade in lampooning TV news programs, keeps track of things with the help of no less than 13 Tivos.

In 1996, Rush became the first Canadian band to be named collectively to the Order of Canada.

Finland leads the world's wealthiest nations in terms of most paid days off, according to a 2007 survey. Finnish law sets aside 30 days of annual leave for workers, and the country has an additional 14 statutory holidays.

Bruce Swedien, the legendary sound mixer who has worked with many jazz luminaries and on numerous Quincy Jones productions, made 91 different mixes of Michael Jackon's Billie Jean before the final version was picked: the second one Swedien had done.

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British author and actor Stephen Fry remains one of the most influential people on Twitter. This week, he told a convention in London that he advises a website in advance that hes's going to recommend them, lest they crash. Fry, a notorious early-adopter of technology since the early 1980s, commented, "If I do recommend a site it has to be capable of something like 1,000 hits a second ... It's like a DOS (denial of service attack) on people's servers and it's terrible." As of this morning, Fry's Twitter account had just over 990,000 followers.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, which launched earlier this week, seems set to top sales records for videogames. In its first 24 hours on the market, the game sold 4.7 million copies - which works out to about 3,264 copies per minute.

John Hodgman, who plays PC in Apple's long-running "I'm a Mac" campaign, is in fact a longtime Mac user himself. The author and Daily Show contributor nonetheless gets accolades from Windows types. In an interview this week, he told the Miami Herald, "The flip side is I am also approached by people who use PCs, and to them I'm a folk hero. . . . I'm a little sheepish about it. I want to ask, `You understand who's paying for these ads, right?' ''

Nitrous oxide had been known for more than 70 years to make people giddy and foolish at parties before anyone thought about it as an anasthetic. A dentist at a party in Connecticut in 1844 observed that a man who suffered a gash on his leg was literally feeling no pain. 

Watch out, jellyfish: researchers working on a dive in the Red Sea found evidence that coral consume jellyfish. Their findings are published in the journal Coral Reefs. Mmmm ... jellyfish.

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What country boasts the highest coffee consumption? It's Finland, where per capita consumption (that includes the kids) is a hefty 12 kilograms per year. Canadians rank 11th, with 6.5 kilograms per person per year. [The image above is from JcOlivera's Flickr stream.]

Until this week, I did not know that the spooky, banjo-inflected music used as the theme song for Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (the BBC radio show from the Seventies, that is) was performed by the Eagles. The song is called Journey of the Sorcerer, and appeared on the 1975 album One of These Nights.

Ringtones are ubiquitous, and profitable: The downloadable tunes account, astonishingly, for close to 60 per cent of all the wireless data revenue generated in the U.S.

The Batmobile, as portrayed in the 1960s television series, was actually built by hand in Italy in the 1950s for the Lincoln line of Ford cars. The prototype was never developed, but became iconic after it was tweaked to be a TV fantasy car.

Otto, a Dachshund terrier living in Shropshire, England, has been named the world's oldest dog. He's 20 years and eight months old. You can read about it on this BBC News report ... although the phrase "put down" is perhaps not the best word choice.

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Back-to-school sales have reignited the advertising wars for computers. Apple has been continuing its "I'm a Mac" campaign, which is credited with rapidly increasing the Mac share of the market. Last year, Apple outspent Microsoft's TV advertising by 71 per cent; in the first half of this year, however, Microsoft has more than doubled Apple's spending on commercials, in an attempt to win back customers.

Ted Kennedy grew up in the shadow of older brothers who seemed far more destined than he to gain the public spotlight; he also grew up on the move, attending 10 different schools by the time he was 11 years of age. 

If the 2010 Ikea catalogue looks a little bit different, look closely at the flag on the front cover. For the first time in a half-century, the Swedish manufacturer of build-your-own furniture has stopped using a stylized and very familiar type of Futura as its font. Instead, it has customized Verdana, which font geeks like myself know was invented for use on the web. Why? Verdana can be adapted to other alphabets, and Ikea wanted a consistent look online and in print, all over the world.

Duncan Jones, who is earning acclaim for his new, 2001-inflected film Moon, was better known decades ago by another name: Zowie Bowie, one of a series of oddball names rock stars gave to their children. The son of David Bowie, he went by Zowie until he was 12, when he changed his first name to Joey, and later Joe. As an adult, he's been known as Duncan Jones - the surname matching David Bowie's original name, David Jones. 

Speaking of unusual names, there's evidence that having one raises the odds you'll wind up in trouble with the law. Check out a Freakonomics posting on that here. 

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Five not terribly important things that you may not have known yesterday. Here we go: 

Avon originally was founded to sell books, not cosmetics. Founder David McConnell used perfume only as an incentive to help sell books.

Easter will be celebrated on the same day in 2010 in both the western Christian churches and in the Eastern Orthodox church. Because the churches use different methods to calculate when Easter falls, coinciding dates happen only a few times every century. (Easter will be on April 4, by the way.)

Chindu Sreedharan, 36, a lecturer at the Media School in Bournemouth University, England, has undertaken an ambitious project with his Twitter account. Through @Epicretold, he is tweeting, in segments of up to 140 characters, the contents of the world's largest poem, the Mahabharata.

Genius of Love by Tom Tom Club - the side project founded by husband-and-wife Talking Heads Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth - features a famous and much-sampled bassline ... but Weymouth didn't actually play it. Round-the-clock recording (they could afford only three days of studio time) left Weymouth unable to close her hand at one point, forcing her to teach the basslines to a technician. You can play the video below.

Steve Wynn, the Las Vegas casino mogul, has a surname that fits the gambling business, and by no accident. His father, a compulsive gambler who owned bingo halls, changed the family's name from Weinberg to a new identity. That detail is included in a recent 60 Minutes profile; click below to watch it.

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Henry David Thoreau, apart from being a writer, was also a talented pencil-maker, through his family's business. Thoreau is credited with making "significant technological innovations, including figuring out a way to inject lead directly into the hollowed-out pencil."

May Day is not just a holiday on May 1 in some places, it's the name of one of the more stylish villains in the James Bond film canon. Singer Grace Jones played the role in the (otherwise iffy) 1985 A View to a Kill.

The ever-stranger Billy Bob Thornton says he is "right on the verge of having full-blown agoraphobia," and also a phobia involving "really old stuff," including 18th century French furniture and "big old heavy silver flatware." (You can't make this stuff up, although, then again, maybe he just did.)

Paula Abdul, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, thought that Sacha Baron Cohen's character Bruno was a real person.

Carol Ann Duffy is the first woman to be Britain's poet laureate, after 341 years of writers holding the distinction.

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Bobby Driscoll, the voice of Disney's Peter Pan and the child star of Treasure Island, fell hard after child stardom. Although he won a juvenile Oscar, he lost his Disney contract (apparently because of severe acne), and slid down. He wound up in prison, was a drug addict, and was found dead at 31 in New York City. He was buried as an anonymous pauper and his remains were not identified until a year after his death.

Recession winner: Yum Foods, the parent company of Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and other fast-food mainstays, is benefiting from the downscaling of the eating-out consumer. The company's U.S. profit was up seven per cent in the first quarter, and its stock surged Thursday on news it is moving on with an ambitious international growth strategy.

Peter Gabriel's first four albums were named Peter Gabriel, although the fourth carried a sticker with the "Security" tag. For the record, the first three are known, respectively, on Gabriel's site as Car, Scratch and Melt.

Ja'Net Dubois, who memorably sang the Jeffersons theme song (listen here), had never sung professionally when she belted out the vocal. She also co-wrote the song with former Ellie Greenwich collaborator Jeff Barry. 

Attendance at the Art Gallery of Ontario has been about 30 per cent less than what was anticipated since the Frank Gehry-designed gallery opened five months ago. The King Tut exhibit coming in November will probably change that.

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I always think of T.S. Eliot at this time of year, particularly as the opening line of The Waste Land tells us that "April is the cruelest month." I wonder how the poem would have fared if Eliot had stuck with his original thought to title the work, He do the Police in Different Voices. That's an allusion to a line in the Charles Dickens novel Our Mutual Friend.

In 41 years of collaborations, including the odd extended hiatus, Elton John says he has not once had an argument with Bernie Taupin. John made the comment to Elvis Costello, for the latter's series Spectacle. (Actually, it's the former's series, too, as John is one of the producers.) I suspect the lack of confrontation may also be related to their method of collaboration: famously, they don't work together at the same time. Taupin writes the words, sends them to Elton, and that's that. The method gave rise to the name of the tribute album in their honour, Two Rooms.

Seth Grahame-Smith, who wrote the unexpectedly bestselling Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (it's technically a co-authorship, as much of Jane Austen's original is there ... the parts without flesh-eating zombies, etc), will be mashing up genres again. A six-figure deal announced this week will see Grahame-Smith tackle Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

Hector Berlioz's works are still widely performed; curiously, he is one of the few classical composers who couldn't play the piano. (He did learn guitar and flute as a child.)

Apple is expected to make its one billionth (with a b) sale from its apps store on Saturday.

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Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr will be collaborating today at a webcast in aid of the David Lynch Foundation. (Yes, Mr. Twin Peaks.) The two surviving Beatles have not always had the closest relationships; Starr's exasperation with the Beatles c. 1968 surely could not have been helped by McCartney playing drums on various tracks, including Back in the USSR, the Ballad of John & Yoko, Honey Pie and others.

An article published this week in the journal Pediatrics pointed to an interesting indicator in cutting child obesity: water fountains. Kids in programs with water fountains had almost a third less the risk for becoming obese.

The Eaton's catalogue consisted of just 32 pages in 1884. It multiplied in size in the decade that followed. Watch a video on the vaunted calatogue here.

The legend of Lady Godiva - who supposedly (but actually did not, scholars say) rode naked through the streets of Coventry to protest her own husband's taxation policies - was not put into writing until two centuries after she lived. (There's timely reporting for you!)

The iPod that Barack Obama presented as a gift to Queen Elizabeth this week included such racy fare as I Could Have Danced All Night, Aquarius and All That Jazz.  The iPod was filled with Broadway show tunes, most of them pre-dating the 1980s.

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Five things you may or may not already know:

Jaws opened on 409 screens on its first weekend in 1975, which was considered a huge number for what was then a "wide" release. Blockbusters often open on 10 times that number now.

If the Earth were reduced to the size of a billiard ball, it would be just as smooth as what you'd find on a pool table. (How's that, you wonder, given we have Everest and ocean troughs? Read here.)

Apart from being a great wine-growing region, California also produces scores of different types of cheese ... about 250, in fact. The state's cheese producers make about 100 types of flavoured and spiced cheese alone. (And, of course, Monterey Jack, which dates back, in one form or another, about 200 years.) 

The wife of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen made medical history in 1895, when she allowed her husband to make the world's first X-ray, using her hand. The experiment revolutionized diagnostic technology.

Seaweed has been used to make everything from medical products to food; Toyota is hoping now to develop a car.

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Creed Bratton, who plays a character called Creed Bratton on NBC's The Office, was the lead guitarist in the Sixties band The Grass Roots, best known for the song "Live for Today." (You know, "Sha la la la ...") You can watch that 1967 chestnut here. That's Creed in the blue shirt, on the left.

John Carter of Mars will be the first Pixar film to feature human beings, in live action.

Since Boston Red Sox legend  has been eligible for voting to the Baseball Hall of Fame (in other words, over the last 14 years), 21 different players got there first.

Photographic pioneer George Eastman not only coined the name Kodak, in 1888, but came up with the empire-making tagline, "You press the button, we do the rest."

More than 75 per cent of the electricity generated in France comes from nuclear power. 

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The poncho that Clint Eastwood wore during his trio of "spaghetti westerns" was apparently never washed during production.

Apple's new iteration of iPhoto, unveiled this week at Macworld, promises facial recognition to make for easier naming and labeling of your digital shots. (David Pogue of the New York Times says it more or less works.) 

The venerable New York Times began selling advertising on its front page this week, with a thin banner at the bottom of the page. (Many, many papers, including The Telegram, have been doing this for years.) The weekday price, according to the rival New York Post, is $75,000; a placement on the still-massive Sunday edition is $100,000.

Nebraska, Bruce Springsteen's spartan but beautiful acoustic record, consists of demos Springsteen intended to record later with the E Street Band. Steven Van Zandt, in an Esquire interview, says he helped persuade Springsteen to release the set as-is, as a stand-alone album, by telling him, "Because you didn't intend to put it out makes it extraordinarily intimate."

"Rogue" stars detected by the Hubble telescope are hurtling through space at the sprightly speed of 180,000 kilometres per hour, according to this National Geographic report.

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Mel Blanc, the voice behind Bugs Bunny (and many, many other Looney Tunes characters) didn't like carrots. It's often been claimed he had an allergy ... but naaaah, he just didn't like the stuff.

Vincent Price was a skilled gourmet, and with his wife a published author on cooking.

Drinking a cup of coffee is a sensible idea before a catnap, as it takes about 20 or 30 minutes for the caffeine to kick in ... just when you'll be wanting to get up again.

Chain e-mails are completely useless. Here's the amazing proof!

Both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are Grammy award-winning recording artists. (Each won in the spoken-word category for their respective best-sellers.)

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Five items, not otherwise connected:

The shortest sentence in English, at 31 characters, using all of the alphabet is: Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz.

To pick the movies screening in the Sundance Film Festival coming up in January, organizers sorted through (and presumably even watched) some 3,661 submissions. The final list: 118.

Dustin Pedroia, last year's rookie of the year in Major League Baseball, has signed a contract with the Boston Red Sox that will see him get paid by $1.5 million next year. The six-year deal, though, gets juicier as time passes, as Pedroia will apparently be paid $10 million in 2014. 

Louisiana is the most unhealthy state in the U.S., according to a new survey of American states. Indicators include a high number of uninsured citizens and a high obesity rate.

Trendy pomegranate juice has several times the calories of the same amount of dowdy old tomato juice. (Or more. Try plugging in your own options at Calorie King.)

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Maurice "Rocket" Richard switched from No. 15 to his famous No. 9 during his second season with the Montreal Canadiens, in honour of the birth of his daughter, Huguette, who weighed nine pounds.

Almost 60 per cent of customers taking part in the 7/11 chain's "7-Election" presidential prediction promotion bought cups with the word "Obama" on them.

The distinctive notes heard at the beginning of Abba's Mamma Mia single are played on the marimba; the arrangement was a last-minute addition to a quickly produced track. 

Prince revised the lyrics for his apocalyptic party-down classic 1999 during a recent rooftop show in New York City to reference the worldwide financial crisis.

Alaska's budget relies heavily on oil, with 85 per cent of revenues drawn from oil-based sources.

Five-fact Friday (Elton John edition)

Last night, we went to see Elton John play in St. John's. It was quite the concert; I wrote about it for my day job at CBC, although the clever headline I came up with in the shower drew a knock in the comments section. (Look, everything draws a knock in the comments section.)

This week's collection of five facts is all about Elton. The shot below, incidentally, was nicked here; it was taken in Dubai, although it feels like it could have been shot last night.

The "someone" in Elton John's 1975 hit Someone Saved My Life Tonight was Long John Baldry. The hit ballad recollects John's suicide attempt while dealing with a relationship where he was being pressured into a marriage. John has credited Baldry with talking John out of getting married and instead focusing on his musical career. A year later, his Elton John album made him an overnight superstar.

The crowd noise on Bennie and the Jets was collected from several sources, including an Elton John live show and a Jimi Hendrix concert. In an episode in the Classic Albums series, producer Gus Dudgeon recounts meticulously making sure the clapping was off-beat ... just the way that English audiences are. (!)

Speaking of both of the above songs ... Elton John had to figure out to sing some of his own songs, after he lost his ability to move into a falsetto after throat surgery in 1987 permanently changed his voice.

John and Bernie Taupin, his collaborator over four decades, wrote and completed Tumbleweed Connection - which is filled with Old West inflections drawn by the U.S.-based inspirations of their childhoods, and laced with what's much-too-often called Americana - in 1970, before either made it America.

It's no Cherry Garcia, but there's a Ben & Jerry's flavour inspired by the Rocket Man: Goodbye Yellow Brickle Road.

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Five things you may or may not have already known:

Charging Bull is the name of the distinctive sculpture that sits near Wall Street, in lower Manhattan. Though already an iconic symbol of New York - it is photographed constantly, seemingly - the city at first considered it a bit of renegade art when scultor Arturo Di Modico unexpectedly delivered it in 1989, without a commission ... or a permit.

The Simpsons, with Sunday's season premiere, will tie Gunsmoke's record-setting 20 seasons on the air.

Lapiro de Mbang, one of the most popular singers in Cameroon, was sent to prison for three years, for allegedly encouraging people to riot. Lapiro recently released a song criticizing Cameroon President Paul Biya, who has been office since 1982.

Adam Dalgliesh, the hero-detective of many P.D. James novels over the last 45 years, gets married in her newly released novel, The Private Patient. (Bonus fact! Dalgliesh doesn't age in the books, even though each Dalgliesh book is contemporary to when James published it.) 

Bill and Melinda Gates gave away $312,527,657 in the first seven months of this year alone, through their charitable foundation. A breakdown for just July is here.

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A white, two-piece bikini, worn by model Babette March, was the subject of the first swimsuit issue cover of Sports Illustrated, in 1964.

The collective noun of peacocks is a muster.

Sarah Palin and her husband gave their son Trig the middle name of "Van" so his last two names would rhyme with Van Halen.

Alberta has had only six premiers since the end of the Second World War.

Angie Dickinson was originally up for the Linda Evans role on Dynasty.

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About 160,000 people go through Gros Morne National Park every summer.

Suze Rotolo, who appeared on the iconic cover of the Freewheelin' Bob Dylan album, pronounces her first name like Suzy.

Michael Dell began manufacturing knockoffs of IBM PCs in 1984 from his University of Texas dorm room.

Much of the first season of the Flight of the Conchords was filmed on Manhattan's lower east side.

The motto of British Columbia is splendor without dimishment.

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I'm launching a new weekly feature: a set of five facts. I have a tendency to collect factoids and trivia bits, like metallic dust to a magnet ... I might as well put them somewhere.

The corrections section of Mental Floss magazine is, appropriately, called Mental Flaws.

Joni Mitchell's first name is not Joan, but Roberta. (Joan is her middle name.)

Just over 63,000 Edsels were manufactured in the first year after Ford launched the spectacularly unsuccessful car, in 1957.

Getty Images is the world's largest photo agency. It sold this summer for US $2.4 billion.

The original eight colours in a Crayola box of crayons, first produced in 1903: black, brown, orange, violet, blue, green, red and yellow.